Yesterday evening I read a thread on here about life insurance. Out of curiosity I thought I would have a look on moneysupermarket and see how much it would cost me to take out a policy. I filled in the details and instead of giving me quotes it come up with the 'thank you someone will be in touch shortly' screen.
I didn't want someone to contact me as I was just looking out of curiosity and had ticked the box stating 'do not contact me'. I also entered an incorrect mobile number just to make sure they didn't! So I get an email saying that someone will be in contact so I reply saying 'please do not call me' (not actually thinking anyone would read it but I had had a few glasses of wine by this point!
So fast forward to just now and I get a call on my land line from moneysupermarket. I say politely I'm not interested and pointed that I had ticked a box asking not to be called and please take me off the list, to which the man went into a blurb about 'Well I was just going to tell you about how you can save money'. My response was,
'no thank you. I'm not interested.
Telephone man says, 'so your not interested in saving money then?' which I absolutely hate when people say that to you because clearly they know that isn't what you mean!
I then remind the man that I had ticked the box and that he is breaking the data protection act contacting me when I have requested not to be contacted, to which he then tells me that he isn't from moneysupermarket anyway which just made me even angrier (I assume he is from some associated company!)
Eventually he does b*er off and it is at this point that I remember that I did not enter my landline number on to the form in the first place so how on earth did they get it?
Am I being unreasonable to be really angry that moneysupermarket seem to have kept my number from another time and linked it to this request? I mean how do they know it is definitely me? And am I also being unreasonable to be annoyed that they called in the first place when I asked them not to!