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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	23 Apr 2009 17:48
	Does anyone else keep getting calls from these??? They are driving me nuts! Well.... nuttier than I was!! I tell 'em I am not interested... that I don't respond to cold calls, they say quite understand... so who is your current provider... I say, I am sorry, I don't respond to cold calling... they reply... but we are not selling you anything we are trying to save you money... I say thank you, but I'll go online when I want to change... and they say... who is your current provider... and I scream None of you b****y business and slam the phone down!! I have had a phone call from them every day even Easter Sunday since I got out of hospital.... my patience is wearing thin, but I don't want to be rude, either!! So I am very cross with them that they have pushed me into a corner so that I am having to be rude!! And then there is BT, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! Love Daff xxxxx
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	Jane	Report	23 Apr 2009 17:56
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	Are these the people who want to find out who your supplier is and then tell you comparisons? I now don't answer my phone especially during the day as I have had so many of these type of calls.I wait till the answer phone clicks in and if I know who it is I will pick up the phone.I am never rude to these people as they are just doing their job,and they need their jobs.But it does infuriate me!!!!!
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	Jane	Report	23 Apr 2009 18:01
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	My OH just says why don't you tell them just to P**s off lol.I can't do that.My daughter did sales calls for double glazing when she was 16/17.She only stayed a few weeks .She found she got through to a few Pervs lol.They may have just been pretending of course!!!!!!
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	23 Apr 2009 18:05
	hangs head in shame I know Helen, but they are so persistant... it is why I don't put the phone down on them straight away, as I don't want to be rude... and why I find myself explaining why I don't deal with cold callers... but then when at the end of it all they ask AGAIN for your provider, how rude is that? They have just ignored all my reasonable and polite explanation, they haven't listened to a word I've said.... and then whammy again with that question... and I just got sooooo cross today... I am pmt'ing and having the flushes as well.... does that excuse me? lololol Love Daff xxxx
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	Jane	Report	23 Apr 2009 18:09
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	I think you can be excused Daff ..what with all you have been through and had to put up with this past year.How are you? Haven't been on Daff's thread for a while.So I hang my head too. Love Helen xx
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	23 Apr 2009 18:14
	lol Helen.... that's ok!! I am doing well, but slowly!! My little babies took a long time to start reproducing, but they are on their way now! My hair is growing back... and my moustache never fully left, lolol!! No more chemo... the last lot took too much out, and I had a massive reaction to one of the chemo's... but it looks very positive now, anyway so fingers crossed. Love Daff xxxxxx
Member Since: December 2008 Posts: 585 Send Message	Jax in Wales	Report	23 Apr 2009 18:38
	I got one this morning from some electricity company at half 8 on the only morning I get to sleep in!! I told em to call back at a decent time when I could function properly to tell em to bog off lol
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,621 Send Message	Harpstrings	Report	28 Apr 2009 19:43
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,621 Send Message	We keep getting an automated call about debt awareness, drives me bonkers and I end up swearing at the recording! Tsk! Tina x

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