Originally posted by DimPrawn
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truecall: what a great gadget
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If your company is the best place to work in, for a mere £500 p/d, you can advertise here. -
Things like this have been out in the US for a long long long time (where peoples phones can ring nearly every day with some cold calling telemarketer/sales) and even there they did not do that well
Originally posted by PRC1964 View PostA friend of mine signed up for that (or somthing similar). He ditched it as nobody apart from his Mum could be sed to bother giving a reason for wanting to call him.Comment
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Originally posted by PRC1964 View PostA friend of mine signed up for that (or somthing similar). He ditched it as nobody apart from his Mum could be sed to bother giving a reason for wanting to call him.Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostUh-huh. An agent calls with a nice contract. He takes offence at your gatekeeper and hangs up. Result?The proud owner of 125 Xeno Geek PointsComment
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Useless Technology
My wife bought an automatic spaghetti cooker once and think its still in the atic complete with instructions , dont even think its e-bayableWarning unicorn meat may give you hallucinationsComment
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Originally posted by expat View PostUh-huh. An agent calls with a nice contract. He takes offence at your gatekeeper and hangs up. Result?
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For Sales press 1
For Technical Support press 2
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My usual response - put the phone down and curse the cost of transatlantic calls.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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I don't have a landline myself, but even if this made it to mobiles then I'd be reluctant to use it. Often the most important calls are number withheld.
Legislation would be the best way. I'd support a ban on all anonymous UK calls.Cats are evil.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostOr that vegetable slicer thing that they advertised on TV umpteen years ago... totally useless, the only vegetables it would slice were precooked...
See you, you ****. I'll cut you first...
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Or that vegetable slicer thing that they advertised on TV umpteen years ago... totally useless, the only vegetables it would slice were precooked...
The Very Thing - The Veg-O-Matic...
Originally posted by Mr Crosby View PostVeg-o-matic or was that button-matic.
My dad bought one for my mum... I think it's still up in the attic...
He was always falling for this type of crap...
And it's now sitting in my shed, still in its mouldering cardboard box.
It'll be joined by the equally useless "microwave pressure cooker" that I purchased from "The Works" the other day.Last edited by zeitghost; 29 March 2017, 14:36.Comment
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