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Life Protect Bureau
Just had a cold call from “Life Protect Bureau”, a Swansea-based life insurance adviser. Apparently they wanted me to update my details for an 18-month review of my life insurance, despite me having no relationship with them.
The caller was dim, menacious, or both, insisting that she wasn’t trying to sell me anything, and telling me that since they were providing a free service, it couldn’t be a cold call. She used a “data protection” excuse to get past Kate answering my phone, and then implied that they were working on behalf of all UK insurers to update information in light of changed European regulations.
I hate lying salespeople, particularly when they claim not to be selling anything.
My phone numbers are on do-not-call lists, but I get an annoying number of calls, more often about PPI mis-selling. I’m pretty sure that the annoyance from PPI cold calls and TV adverts is worse than the original mis-selling scandal.
Years ago we used to regularly get door-to-door salesmen from Scottish Power, trying to get us to change gas and electricity supplier. They always claimed not to be selling anything, and were just providing information, and then usually came out with some tale about lots of our neighbours changing to Scottish Power. It just made the public face of the company appear to be lying toerags, arguing with me on my doorstep.
The caller was dim, menacious, or both, insisting that she wasn’t trying to sell me anything, and telling me that since they were providing a free service, it couldn’t be a cold call. She used a “data protection” excuse to get past Kate answering my phone, and then implied that they were working on behalf of all UK insurers to update information in light of changed European regulations.
I hate lying salespeople, particularly when they claim not to be selling anything.
My phone numbers are on do-not-call lists, but I get an annoying number of calls, more often about PPI mis-selling. I’m pretty sure that the annoyance from PPI cold calls and TV adverts is worse than the original mis-selling scandal.
Years ago we used to regularly get door-to-door salesmen from Scottish Power, trying to get us to change gas and electricity supplier. They always claimed not to be selling anything, and were just providing information, and then usually came out with some tale about lots of our neighbours changing to Scottish Power. It just made the public face of the company appear to be lying toerags, arguing with me on my doorstep.
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LV bust their britches to help customers, they do not cold call and any miss representation will result in one more bunny Out The Door PDQ.
We have a system which you might like to try.
Automated calls to mobiles we just leave, they are paying and we are not going to reply to their crap.
Cold calls from anyone gets a very short, Anglo Saxon phrase, which as a polite Bear I will not repeat but it does the trick and the Bloke is so much more relaxed. afterwards.
If he is particularly wound up he will let lose a rant which, while temporarily raising his blood pressure, has a truly cathartic effect afterwards.
He has been known to be, almost, nice to people for hours afterwards.