Reply to: truecall: what a great gadget

[Archangel]

Ours is between the pasta maker and the sandwich toaster, behind the smoothie maker.

All still boxed.

[zeitghost]

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...

Veg-o-matic or was that button-matic.

Veg-o-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.

[Mr Crosby]

Or that vegetable slicer thing that they advertised on TV umpteen years ago... totally useless, the only vegetables it would slice were precooked...

Veg-o-matic or was that button-matic.

[Advocate]

It seems overly expensive for what ultimately is a simple bit of kit...

[swamp]

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.

[Sysman]

Uh-huh. An agent calls with a nice contract. He takes offence at your gatekeeper and hangs up. Result?

Memories of TBEM (Time Before E-Mail):

<yank accent>
For Sales press 1
For Technical Support press 2
....

</yank accent>

My usual response - put the phone down and curse the cost of transatlantic calls.

[motoukenin]

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-bayable

[chef]

Uh-huh. An agent calls with a nice contract. He takes offence at your gatekeeper and hangs up. Result?

If the agent believes your the person for the job then they arent going to let a minor filtering process stop them from their commission, in my experience they'd sell their grandmother if it meant they could place someone..

[expat]

A 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.

Uh-huh. An agent calls with a nice contract. He takes offence at your gatekeeper and hangs up. Result?

[Not So Wise]

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

A 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.

And this is the reason why

[pmeswani]

I can't see that gadget being sucessfull. What is to stop any of the telecoms providers (e.g. BT, Virgin Media) introducing the same system without the need for a box and even making it free to use?

How about a patent protection?

[Andy2]

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[Pogle]

I refer the honorable gentleman to my previous response...

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[PRC1964]

A 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.

[chef]

I can't see that gadget being sucessfull. What is to stop any of the telecoms providers (e.g. BT, Virgin Media) introducing the same system without the need for a box and even making it free to use?

Bt have a service (as it says in the article) for a fee that blocks all unknown numbers.

It won over the dragons in dragons den last month so im guessing it's a fairly robust idea.

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