Nuisance Calls

I have, so far, not had my cash refused anywhere.
If I shopped in a supermarket, got to the till and they would not accept the legal tender of this country...I would park my shopping and take my custom elsewhere.
Hopefully where I would be a ‘valued’ customer.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
I have, so far, not had my cash refused anywhere.
If I shopped in a supermarket, got to the till and they would not accept the legal tender of this country...I would park my shopping and take my custom elsewhere.
Hopefully where I would be a ‘valued’ customer.

Hazel called into Ossy Mills a while ago, put certain items into her basket or whatever and then called at the checkout and offered the payment in cash; "Oh I am sorry said the cashier but we only take cards", "in that case I will leave you to put the items back on the shelves" she said; before putting the basket down and leaving but she did feel a little sorry for the lass because as she said to her its not your fault love, blame the bosses.
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Just passed a nail salon in town (yes some shops are still trading hereabouts) big sign in the window, CASH ONLY.
So maybe to find the rip off merchants you only have to look at their hands, well manicured=will take the pennies off a dead man's eyes!
 
the little cafe hear me is like that. run by an old guy of the old skool. a cup of tea is only 70p and he cannot be bothered by cards. he only makes exceptions for the odd factory orders that amount to 20 off items of food plus drinks being taken away. its horses for courses really. i would not expect someone paying for a 2,000 pound second hand car in cash, neither is a 70p card transaction expected either.
 
monkey hanger said:
got to revive this thread. its not nuisance phone calls thats bothering me its all the nuisance emails i have had to delete every single day without opening them. is there an easy way to stop these. anything too techy will be beyond me so i,ll have to live with another daily task.
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A simple, no-expense method (I've used), is to setup another new, clean paid-for or free email account & just abandon the old, cluttered account. Never login again, simply walk away.

Then:

email (using Mail-Merge), all your contacts you want to stay in touch with, your new email address. Do this once, and you're done. No more effort. No expense, Problem? Gone.

Don't forget, avoid sites that offer "Free" stuff, Games, MP3's etc. Basically, any site with loads of Banners & Popups. They're often all about the Marketing Dollar & will sell or rent your email. I've found that sites claiming not to sell your details, do. It's called "Lying". This change of behaviour in not visiting "dodgy" sites & not giving your email address to everybody is called "Habitual Hygiene". You'll quickly re-adjust your Habits.

Presently I have 6 email addresses for different purposes. 2 are Spam accounts, 2 Sacred, Main accounts given ONLY to VERY few trusted, known acquaintances or friends & family members, and the others for other things.

This is how I KNOW, not guessed, sites that I've used Spam addresses on have lied. Why else will an unknown address receive Spam from a suspected bunch of Liars?

Maybe you will setup a similar multi-account arrangement for your own requirements?

I also use Thunderbird email client on Linux. Pretty good, that's a whole different story.
 
had the TV licence goons around our area yesterday. ignored them. watched em going up the street and they actually knocked at about half the houses. seems they are going to have a big task getting all their tv rape money in as only one person answered the door and that was quickly shut.
 
A little while ago I posted on this thread about a couple of people I know well who had been scammed out of almost $9,000. The good news is that the bank has now come to the party and has reimbursed the money. Thought I would mention this because (over here at least, and I assume it is similar in the UK) banks will honour dodgy transactions but some do need a bit of pushing to do so.

If it happens to you (and it can happen to the smartest people) stick to your guns when dealing with your bank. As long as the correct procedures have been carried out then it should come out right in the end. I have to say that in the case I have mentioned they did have to do quite a bit of follow-up work with their bank. An upsetting situation.
 
It is good to know that this couple have been reimbursed by their bank....eventually.Like you, I think it is necessary to stick to your guns because these big institutions will side step their responsibilities if they think they can get away with it.
 
I was getting a number of those nuisance calls a day, sometime three or four, and got fed-up of being ‘nice’. So when I got one particular call I said ‘please wait while this call is transferred to the Fraud Squad, this is the one they are waiting for’. That was about three or more weeks ago and I haven’t had one call since. Coincidence, or not? Hope I haven’t spoken too soon.
 
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