charly1979 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Im quietly sat here chuckling away .. Like many I get too many P.P.I calls and after a rather nasty expierence when they phoned me back after I hung up on them telling them to 'do one' some of my facebook friends gave me a few lines to say for the future and i have just used one of them ......... So I get the call, I know its them as its an international call and im pretty chilled out so I think hey lets have some fun I let the man explain away blah blah I respond in telling him that the only loan I have ever had with P.P.I was in fact repain in full by the insurance after an accident and that all credit cards after this date I never took out P.P.I as I wasnt on full sick pay etc etc, a little pause he starts to wrap up the call so I politely ask him if he has finished as I really need a pooh ..... pause 'Can you repeat yourself madam I didnt get that' Me 'Please I relly really need a pooh' .... the call abrubtly ends !! So just wondering if anyone else has any one liners they use (other than not answering) Im trying to avoid having a bad cause of tourettes and hoping that if I appear completly bonkers they may stop calling me I do have to be careful though because on one occassion I was about to say to a 'blocked call' "Hello and welcome to the nut home" luckilly I didnt as it was a DCI who was investigating our caravan break in (phew) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HennyPenny59 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I told them that they had nearly caused me a serious car accident, because I had to keep looking down at my mobile phone on the passenger seat to make sure I wasn't missing an important call. When I get these calls on my land line I resort to the old fashioned tactic of blowing a high pitched whistle down the mouth piece. I don't seem to be getting the calls anywhere near as often as I did ... Probably coincidence though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I got one the other day. I asked him why he thought I'd taken out P P I. He didn't seem to know how to answer so I just kept asking till he hung up on me . If they try to sell me something for the house, I just say I'm moving imminently . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 If I'm in a hurry, I tell them I am registered with the Telephone Preference Service and they shouldn't be ringing me ... they usually ring off quickly then. If I'm not in a hurry I will string them along, sometimes putting on a fake accent, and thanking them for taking the trouble to ring me, I sometimes ask them for details about 'the loan' which they tell me I had and on which the P.P.I was paid ... before telling them that I have never ever had P.P.I and would they kindly take my name off their list because I'm registered with TPS. You can have some fun, and I don't feel bad about it because I haven't asked them to ring me in the first place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 We only get the automated ones so I pretend to swear at someone, slam the phone down and say to OH that it was his mother and I didn't feel like talking. He does the same to me - it amuses us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I pass the phone to the children and they have a field day. I did once tell someone who was phoning to try and get me to take out a loan that they needed to speak to my husband...who was in prison...for credit card fraud...they asked when he would be out and the best time to phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charly1979 Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 Im thinking of recording my girls and playing that down the line. My little Connie and Marilyn are very chatty chooks and I expect they may have well been misold P P I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Love the poo one - appeals to my lavatorial sense of humour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubababe Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 lol....I do the "hang on a minute" and just put the phone down on the table, they eventually hang up!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I had one on Monday I just what I've always done and hung up on them. TPS is no good for incoming international calls thats how the beggers get around it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I always say, 'I'm sorry I think you must have a wrong number as this is a business line'. They usually hang up immediately. I never explain that I mean 'business' as in 'none of yours' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I screeched down the phone to one last night: "PPI! You want to pee in my eye?! You're a perverted sicko! I'm reporting you!" I don't know who slammed the phone down first, them or me. I have DD to thank for that particular one-liner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Sky started ringing on a weekly basis asking for my Hubby. After a few weeks I told them he had run off with my best friend and left me with 5 kids. If they found out where he was could they please let me know as I wanted to castrate him with 2 bricks. Strangely enough they stopped calling. Sage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 The thing is, if they get an answer (any answer) then they will keep ringing; I have caller ID on my phone at home (as well as being on the TPS) so I don't answer any international calls or numbers I don't recognise. I used to get them on my mobile (also on TPS) but have banned any that have non-withheld numbers so they don't get through. The number of calls is dwindling. We get loads at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Likewise Clare. I also have a nifty little call blocking app on my Mobile which means that no unknown numbers ever get through to me. The crafty ones who do not use an unknown number,I can just add their number to my 'blacklist'. My 17 year old daughter got a P.P.I call very early one morning after a very late night out. I can't repeat what she screeched at them,but I suspect they will not bother her again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 This was a friends approach a couple of weeks back: Ravi: "Hello, this is Ravi from National Accident Helpline" Me: "RAVI! How the devil are you, it's been ages, how have you been?" Ravi: "Ermm.. I am calling you today about compensation.." Me: "Oh God, Ravi - have you had an accident?" Ravi: "Errr, are you asking if I have had an accident?" Me: "Yes Ravi, have you had an accident in the last 3 years that wasn't your fault?" Ravi: "Errrr. Don't be funny" Me: "It's not a laughing matter, was it a trip, slip or fall?" Ravi: [Hangs up] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I daren't block all the unknowns as some callers I want to speak to have withheld numbers; I just let them go through to voice mail and if they leave a message I'll call them back. I did tell one that I don't have a car though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I don't say anything, we have caller display and only one person calls us who withholds their number and we let the answerphone take all unknown numbers. If I do pick up the phone to one of them I put it straight down again so that i am not wasting their time or mine. I refuse to be rude to them because it may have been the only job available to them in these testing times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charly1979 Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 This was a friends approach a couple of weeks back: Ravi: "Hello, this is Ravi from National Accident Helpline" Me: "RAVI! How the devil are you, it's been ages, how have you been?" Ravi: "Ermm.. I am calling you today about compensation.." Me: "Oh God, Ravi - have you had an accident?" Ravi: "Errr, are you asking if I have had an accident?" Me: "Yes Ravi, have you had an accident in the last 3 years that wasn't your fault?" Ravi: "Errrr. Don't be funny" Me: "It's not a laughing matter, was it a trip, slip or fall?" Ravi: [Hangs up] LOVE IT this may well be my next mission when they call Yes I understand that for some it their job etc and perhaps by answering the call im feuling them to call again but it peeves me so much, I dont have an answering machine to screen the calls and I cant block withheld numbers as my husbands work line is withheld and I when I do decide to speak to them Im very careful not to swear too much as I had a call told him where to go he hung up, 5 - 10 mins later had another call it was him again apologised as he had another cal blah blah I again told him where to go prompting him to as " Are you normally this rude on the phone' I replied " Only when companies phone me at 7 pm to bother me esp as your not meant to call me as im on a list that forbids it" (yes I know we all know that they are exempt from this list) He started laughing ( a nasty mocking laugh) "Oh what am i breaking the law" ...... phone hung up but left me feeling a bit vunerable etc bearing in mind that same week I had a cold caller at the door who wouldnt take No for an answer (5 times I said No please leave) in the end I took his leaflet and told him I was phoning his boss to complain .... cue sarky comments under his breath sad thing was he was right the company didnt give a monkeys Hence why I now feel I need to have a little play with these annoying oiks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 If you are on the TPS list and they persist in calling you, then report the company to the TPS and let them deal with it. Being rude to them (although it's tempting) won't stop them calling you; at the end of the day they have a job to do and will carry on regardless. I used to get lots of the silent calls at home - the ones where a computer dials and if an operator their end is free, they get connected, otherwise it is just silent then hangs up. When I stopped answering those calls, they stopped ringing. Offshore call centres (one of the main culprits) are exempt form the TPS regulations. charly1979, can you ask your husband to send you a text before he calls so that you know it is him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
