“Cold calling a 75 year old neighbour of mine, really bad attitude when I told her we weren't interested. Not something that should be done in today's financial climate especially with vulnerable and elderly people. Refused to give me any other details of her employer other than money-saving.com. seems they only work in low income and elderly residential areas of Nottingham. Reported to the neighbourhood watch and area community support officers.”
“I hope bt ee know they have disrespectful, rude and liars working for them.
4 times they knocked on my door the first one I ignored after seeing them out the window 2nd time I answered and said I’m happy with sky which they then tried saying how they can offer better but I closed door, 2 hours later I get another knock which I ignored and the 4th time I completely lost it
I said if they knock again I will be phoning the police for harassment he interrupted me saying it’s for my own benefit as sky lines are going down and if move to ee can get it cheaper and keep my broadband
I was astonished that he came out with that, a big company like sky cutting off their lines? I said I’ll ring sky to confirm this which he was very reluctant for me not too as it was “waste of time”
I then said he either leaves or the police will be called and I will call ee direct to make a complaint to which he walked off and responded “your loss then””
“A young lady appeared at my door, due could see that I was disappointed to see it was her. I've just got back from work, am tired it's been a hot day, and I was expecting a parcel and that was why I opened my door. She introduced herself. I told her am not interested she ignored my request and continued tapping on her device, I answered one question, and said am not interested I've had visits like this and am busy now, her response was she's also busy working, I was shocked that she was choosing to be rude just because am not interested. I said No please, then she said something about thank you etc I think it's the generic talk they are meant to say when told No. Please advice your traders to respect people's Non interest and no cold calls sign as we are being inconvenienced at 6pm in the evening.”
“Never heard to much Trollope come out of their mouth, I had a guy called Colin at my door saying he’s upgrading everyone’s lines for them, he tried to put me on a pay as you go landline when I told him I use it a lot and it has my health care alarm connected he said it’s just £5 a month and it will be fine.
Upon looking at the package online while he was blabbering on I seen it was 26p per minute which he did not tell me at all and when confronted him why he didn’t tell me he then tried to say the first hour is free which I didn’t believe at all
Would not go away after saying many times no so I had to close my door and walk back in my sitting room”
“I have a sign saying no cold callers which was ignored even after I pointed it out. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. It made me more determined to refuse offer no matter how plausible they were.”
“I have just had major surgery & I am recuperating. I answered the door first thing to the Money Expert Cold caller & very nicely advised I wasn't interested. I had 3 more bashes on the door, the final one being 8pm! I swung the door open then politely, but sternly advised that the multiple disturbances were unacceptable. The guy was polite & apologised, said not him as quite a few of them going around. I made it clear that it was indeed him on all 4 occasions that day & he left. Nice enough guy it seemed, but get the message already!”
“Cold calling at my door today telling me the internet in the area was “really bad” and the engineers were coming to look at the lines so he was doing a survey. I said the internet wasn’t bad. He asked me what service I was with then how much I was paying. Claimed he wasn’t a salesperson, but he was. Telling me they’d have to dig up the street etc. (Which obviously no one wants so they’re going to answer his questions and say the internet is fine.) very dishonest tactic. I will never use a service Money Expert recommends.”
“Cold caller after dark - was probably about 5-5:30pm - wanted to check if our internet speed from Virgin was as fast as it should be.
Surely that means he expected to be connected to out WiFi? It felt very unsafe, and my husband wanted me to report it as a scam, especially as the whole of our neighbourhood seemed to have been targeted.”
“Cold calling should not happen. Claimed was from BT, pushy and did not seem to want to tell me why he was here and what he was selling. We did not believe him, thought it was a scam . Sent him away. Since then I have found out that they are partners with BT. If BT wants to offer me a better deal there are other ways to communicate. We will be leaving BT as soon as we can because they do have some sort of relationship to this company. That makes BT just as bad.”
“Peddling lies on the doorstep, claiming lines have been upgraded, that there have been complaints locally about the broadband. Reluctant to take no for an answer. If they're prepared to lie to you from the off, why would you ever use them?”
“Absolute scum. Preying on the vulnerable. I would advise anyone who bumps into them in the street to let them have a piece of your mind in a civil manner.”
“High pressure cold calling re: BT broadband. Won't take no for an answer! 6th call in recent months. One person even came back 1 hour later to check that we hadn't changed our minds! They need to be stopped.”
“Had one at my door, assured me that I was going to get better broadband speeds by switching to BT, telling me that the guarantee would ensure that even over WiFi, even 100ft down the road, my speeds would never drop below 700mb/s. When later setting up the deal on the phone I looked in to this, turns out he totally made all of that up, lied to me so I would sign a two year contract.”
