hi george, that gets me too and i usually reply in the hope that one day
someone might be listening "if it was you'd have answered already"
and yes, exactly, we pay the phone company and its they who pass the money
on to the undesirables and so there's plenty they can do about it.
trace
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 8:40 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Premium Rate Calls - was: New Form of Unwanted
Telephone Scam Call
Trace brings up a very good point here, so have started a new thread.
"The phone companies are actually as bad in some ways, take the premium rate numbers that in the past people have rung not knowing they'd be charged an arm and a leg for doing so, the phone companies say that they can't do anything about them, of course they can as its the phone companies who we pay our bills to and so it must be they who pass on the money, hardly roket science not to is it."
I have no objections to paying a reasonable telephone fee for support.
However what really does brass me off is being on hold to these numbers for an excessive length of time while being told, "Your call is important to us - please hold."
George
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