More than a competition

@MsTickle (25180)
Australia
July 18, 2016 7:16am CST
Earlier today I received a phone call from someone I didn't know. He was calling about a competition I had entered. But I didn't enter a competition for funeral services. No, but you entered a competition for something else so you were automatically entered in this . But I already have my funeral arrangements set up. OK but you have won 12 months funeral insurance for the whole family. Don't you want that? No, I'm not interested. But this is for the whole family...yada yada. Still not interested. Update: I have just received another call from another insurance company. Unbelievable! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OK, I don't have a family or any funeral arrangements but can you believe this? He tried so hard to not take "no' for an answer while I tried hard to say I wasn't interested. Even if I was interested in a huge way I would not do business with this company. This is outright trickery and I refuse to be a part of it. What would you do?
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6 responses
@LadyDuck (502466)
• Italy
18 Jul 16
Do not let him convince you to send material by mail or email. Do not give any personal data and hang up.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
21 Jul 16
I'm not silly enough to give out personal info.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
21 Jul 16
@LadyDuck Anything that says who i am or where I am is personal. There have been no more calls so I'm counting myself lucky. They did get my phone number when I signed up for the competition so I hope I'm not inundated with SMS or the like.
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@LadyDuck (502466)
• Italy
21 Jul 16
@MsTickle I never give my personal info and I consider my email a personal info.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Jul 16
tell them they can email me whatever materials they want, but I am not giving them any information or agreeing to anything. IF the info comes in the mail then I can research and verify it is legit.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
21 Jul 16
If I'm not interested (and I'm not) I will not give them any of my infor or ask for any of theirs. I just want them to go away.
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• Centralia, Missouri
22 Jul 16
@MsTickle being on the do not call registery seems to have eliminated much of those calls for me
@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
20 Oct 16
same as you most sure except i would just hang up after saying , no thanks
@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
19 Jul 16
You have more patience than I do with them... I hang up on them straight away and reject their subsequent calls... And yes, I know exactly how annoyingly persistent they are...
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
21 Jul 16
I try to be courteous and respectful but if they ignore me or cut me off I will hang up.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
27 Jul 16
Oh dear - we've even got to be careful when we enter competitions now. I know you've read my post about the poetry competition I entered, and here's you having trouble because of one you entered. Sheesh!.
@JudyEv (382107)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jul 16
Keep saying no. Just keep saying 'no thank you' and don't get into a conversation. That often works as a quick way to get rid of them.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
21 Jul 16
That's a good idea. I hate to be rude unless I'm feeling like being evil at the time then i'm likely to say anything.
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