To keep them hanging on the phone?

[Honeezreturn]

Ok, I might be being unreasonable but I'm getting abit annoyed now.
Had a phone call earlier this week from a company dealing with PPI asked about an endowment we once had and I stated I wasn't interested, they then asked to speak to DH, I said he wasn't here.
So since then a form has come through the post to fill in and today 2 more phone calls. I have ripped the form up, and told the man DH wasn't at home.
DH is aware and isn't interested.
Man tonight asks for DH, I say he's not here (he's not) and tell man he's not interested,
I then just put phone next to me and can hear man huffing and puffing, eventually he puts phone down and phones again he said ' I'm going to keep phoning until you get DH, it's very important,
He stayed on the phone for ages while I'm watching corrie
If he wants to waste his time, his choice, AIBU??

No, you're being perfectly reasonable, provided you don't mind him tying up your phone line.

It's pretty damn annoying that he's trying to bypass the little woman to talk to the man of the house. He deserves to b messed around for that alone.

Arse! Him not you!

With us it's boilers!

Yanbu! I once had a ppi thing ring and was going on about how I used the money to get my mahoooosive tits and kept going on and on. He only realised I was taking the piss when he asked me to read all the details I was supposed to write down back to him. I hadn't even had the loan they were harping on about.

I think you are doing exactly the right thing. Though if he says that line about carrying on calling until your dh comes to the phone, I would tell him that sounds like a threat of harassment, and you are sure the police would have a view!

When he calls back, be really ott and say lots of omg, I was just thinking of you. Thinking of all the fun we used to have. I've not seen or spoken to you for years. I really must tell you everything that has happened since we last saw each other.... And tell him lots and lots of random, and very descriptive crap. Go will. Just do not allow him to talk, at all. It is rather amusing listening to the person trying to interrupt to say you must be mistaken. But you carry on, chatting away. He will hang up.

Then he will call you back, and you say, oh I don't know what happened there, must have knocked a button by mistake. I do that a lot. So anyway where was I, and before he gets a chance, carry on with random crap. Even talk about some of the posts from on here like they are your family/friends..

Keep doing it.

Until finally, you say right, what company did you say you was from... He will say this.. Ask him for his name.. Write these down.. Ask him to confirm how many times roughly he has called. He will oblige. Ask him to confirm that you have never asked him to call. He will but he will protest because he is doing you a favour. Then name drop tps. You are on there online thing filling out a form, and ooh look it says here that you have cost your company a hell of a lot in fines because this call is unsolicited. (Also register with tps).

If he calls again, then he has got some balls..Did this to the last annoyance, never heard a thing since.

After persistent calls from one of these annoying companies, I said to the guy, 'can you just hold for a second as I need a toilet'. I then made silly noises saying I had diarrhoea. He quickly hung up! Childish but satisfying.

For most of them a 'no thank you, I am not interested' is not enough.

bloodyteenagers love it! sort of want him to phone back now! Although I've left phone off the hook as he sort of worried me abit
And SDT like the idea about the police

Ask him why you would use his company if you were to claim. They fill out exactly the same form as you would so you pay 30-40% of anything due for a stamp in effect. I did all mine myself, sent a letter then returned a form and got £2k back. Why would I pay someone to do exactly the same thing I found fairly simple. Or tell him that since he altered you to the possibility of ppi reclaim you have filled in the for
for the company in question and sent it already.

It just really annoys me how persistant they are, who the bloody hell do they think they are!??
If I was an elderly lady I think his tone could be quite frightening,
Our phone number is ex directory too,

We had this a few weeks ago. Eventually I snapped - and said if I was going to fill the forms in (I wasn't as it was re card protection plan and the bank had reimbursed us in full) I would have done so by now, the forms were in the recycling bin and they were wasting their time phoning us/

A different arsehole took umbrage with my daughter who when he asked for OH wouldn't say who he was, so DD said she wouldn't get OH (who had no intention of talking to him) until he said who he was and who he represented. He became extremely abusive to DD - who put phone down on him.He continued to ring back (answerphone on) until I lost the plot and disconnected phone line after informing him I would report him to phone provider to get call blocked (we had good idea who was behind it).

He did stop but we no longer answer house phone now - family/friends/work know to either ring mobiles or leave a message and we will ring back.

2 weeks ago it was the boiler/solar panels ones

Last week it was satellite/cable TV - oddly they also stopped when I balled out some bloke who had rung several times - I was sleeping as on nights and he got the full hairdryer treatment before I disconnected phone

this week it is number starting 0195....................

I find that putting the receiver down on the worktop next to Radio 3 on full blast gets rid of the majority of them.

I've discovered it's a company called VIBRIS
They were stupid enough not to withhold their number! and I've done abit of detective work online and it seems they've been pissing off a lot of people and are extremely persistant,
I'm ready for them next time