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    Nicolina
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    Quote Originally Posted by mfwebb View Post
    The "electricity board" doesn't ring me but the "gas board" does occasionally, offering me cheap deals on my gas. I don't know whether these are genuine calls or not but a little homework would tell them our village doesn't have gas. It's not a village really and it's not big enough to be called a hamlet -- so we call it an egg-let
    you don't need to have a gas supply, Malcolm. I got a call from the gas board offering me a cheaper tarrif - for my electricity. Ended up saving quite a bit when I took advantage of their offer (over £200 in the first year).

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    In the early 1990's, in the good old, bad old days of cold calling......I always got called around 6pm. Tea time/dinner time(a ploy used quite a lot).

    Anyway.......I had the usual double glazing call, for what seemed the 100th time. So as I was eating my dinner, I gave the usual....'Oh really'.....'That sounds good', type stuff now and again.
    This went on for nearly 45 minutes, and then he asked if I was interested in having double glazing.

    'No thanks', I said......'I've had it done already'.

    'You've wasted my time', he said quite angrily.

    'You phoned me mate'......I replied.

    He hung up on me..........how rude was that.


    Steve.

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    If, and it's a big IF I ever get my hearing restored to the point where I can use a telephone [rather than ignore it], I plan to use use some of these responses.

    It'll be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    you are lucky, Steve. My mother got a cold call about double-glazing at 11p.m. as my father was dying in hospital. He certainly didn't get the answer he was expecting and I bet he thought twice before calling anyone else at that time of night. She's not had another call, about double glazing since (10 years).

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