Has anyone come across this phone number 0845 0554454 - we get a call from it on our mobile phones but as soon as we answer the call hangs.  This has happened over a dozen times!!  If anyone recognises it and knows the geographical number of the registered keeper it would help.......
Derek

~ Edit by Dave: Thread title changed to include name of company

I googled around a bit for 0845 0554454 & found 0554454 0845 Businesses By Cheaper Phone Bill which is a dead link. Trying the main site to see if it made sense, I couldn't find any contact details - see if you fare any better ! Looking at the way the site is constructed & some of the grammatical errors, broken links, etc., they seem a Cowboy operation so likely to resort to the sort of underhanded methods you're experiencing.

Looking for 0845 0554454 &  "0845 055 4454" got me overture.com search terms of interest's Journal which seemed to be someone elses search results that I couldn't interpret, so I left it !

Nothing else came up I'm afraid !  :-/

I've been getting the same on my landline, might get motivated enough to prod BT, seems to happen during the day only, and for the last week or two.  I've only picked up once, being that no companies know anyone is home during the day and it was 0845 - but got the same silence then hang up.  To help google help other people, that number again, 0845 0554454

I've had half a dozen of these recently, so I eventually called it:

Thank you for calling Kitchens Direct, we called to invite you to participate in a free, no obligation....

Of course you could just leave your comments about their marketing methods here...
http://www.kitchendirect.co.uk/contactus/comments.php

'nother one for google  08450 554454

Johhny_Miffed wrote on Feb 8^th, 2006 at 6:27pm:

'nother one for google  08450 554454

Sorry Johnny - that one only brought up this thread !   :-/

Apologies Dave, I should have been clearer first time. Just adding the number back to the thread for anyone else searching it as reported via 1471 (with pause/space between after second 0, rather than first 5). Glad its been indexed already!

MKD Holdings Ltd, trading as Kitchens Direct have been at the centre of an Ofcom investigation for making silent calls. See this complaint and this investigation on the Ofcom site.

Hey guys, i had the same number ring me 3 times in one hour, so i called BT.

BT service was fast as hell. I got through in maybe 2 mins with this number  0800 800 150 Its an automated service, but nucence calls seem to be taken very seriously. The woman told me i should register with a BT service. Its all free BTW, so dont worry about paying more money.

So for business calls like this one, ring 0800 121 8000. Register with these guys, and it stops spam phone calls. I also asked if it will stop credit card companies ringing me 5 times a week, and she said it would.

Remember, the numbers are free, and you get through pretty easy. Just give them a call if you have any more problems.

PaulyC wrote on Feb 10^th, 2006 at 1:18pm:

... The woman told me i should register with a BT service. Its all free BTW, so dont worry about paying more money.

The service from BT is BT Privacy and has been promoted everywhere by Jeremy Clarkson. It registers you for the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), a list which marketing companies should screen against. This will stop other cold callers aswell.

Hi

I just wanted to say thanks to you guys for adding the number for google. I picked it up that way (it was the first hit) and registered with TPS right away. I'm a little annoyed as my number is unlisted and I never give it out. So how these guys got it is beyond me.

Thanks again
Cath

CathD wrote on Feb 11^th, 2006 at 1:41pm:

Hi ...my number is unlisted and I never give it out. So how these guys got it is beyond me.

They start at 0151 200 0000 (or 0151 211 1111 for younger readers) and carry on until 0151 998 9999 or 0000. Yes, OK, they do not only dial Liverpool and they exclude non-working numbers and exchange codes, but the principle of indiscriminate dialling holds.

Thanks for pointers an tips Dave. Seems that nearly 1 year later MKD told Ofcom that they were being good and Ofcom closed the case. A £5k fine would hardly be a deterrent anyway.

Mine was also to a long-standing unlisted number that has never given out.

Maybe I am being overly simplistic, but with complete UK number listings only costing £200-£300 why not class any firm's cold-call to an unlisted number ( unlisted > 18 months) as misuse, silent or otherwise. Surely then it would be clear and quick to identify repetitive misuse under subsection 6 of
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/30021--c.htm#128  (Communications Act) and  the regularity of £5k fines would become a real deterrent. I feel TPS should only really be necessary to protect those with listed or recently unlisted numbers.

Ofcom takes silent call complaints automatically here http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain.

I am now curious as to anyone actually recently having got a non-silent call from this number or the number of rings before call was answered/abandoned, just to rule out the practice of live number pinging. But that is going way off topic here, so if anyone is bothered, PM me during the next week and I'll supplement my complaint with any useful stats.

I just had this number call my home, and the ansaphone recorded what can only be described as a woman singing in the style of the Crazy Frog, only slower! Very odd. Thanks go to this site though for enabling me to discover where the call came from with minimum of searching.

Hi,
I've just been rung by these "waste of spaces".
I've also been rung by 0870 3008115
Apparently it costs you between 7p & 8p to listen to some recorded messages, 4p of which goes to the company that uses the number.
Now..... I just listen before answering & wait for them to put the phone down, before putting the phone down myself.

If you've have problems with MBNA ringing you up trying to sell you extras for your credit card, I asked the asian chap, who was NOT in a call centre in India!!! (ha) if he knew.....
"What the sound of a MBNA credit card sounding like when it was being cut up ?"
"No" came the reply from the asian gent (who was NOT in an Indian call centre)
"This is what the sound of an MBNA crdit card sounds like when it's being cut up"......as I proceeded to cut up my MBNA card.
Strangely enough, I've not had any phone calls from MBNA for over a year now!

Kind Regards,
The Silent Call Assasin

:o


Domain name:
       kitchensdirect.co.uk

   Registrant:
       MKD Holdings Limited

   Registrant type:
       UK Limited Company, (Company number: 2340362)

   Registrant's address:
       MKD Holdings Limited
       Cornbrook
       2 Brindley Road
       Old Trafford
       Manchester
       M16 9HQ
       GB

   Registrar:
       Altohiway Limited t/a Opal [Tag = OPAL]
       URL: http://www.opal-solutions.com

   Relevant dates:
       Registered on: 08-Apr-1998
       Renewal date:  08-Apr-2008
       Last updated:  28-Jun-2007

   Registration status:
       Registered until renewal date.

   Name servers:
       dns1.red.net
       dns2.red.net

   WHOIS lookup made at 17:40:29 14-Sep-2007

The_Doctor, what exactly was the point of your post? You just posted the WHOIS for kitchensdirect.co.uk, with absolutely no information about what you were :O-ing at.

Yeah Sorry, did not mean to add a  :o face. was just adding the WHOIS for those who needed to know where the company was registered at.

I see. Probably not much help since this thread is actually from 2006...

Yeah, I guess. But i have suffered the 0845 0554454 Number all this week and most of last week. So I am assumeing they are still running.

Well, might have been useful to mention that you had a problem :P. Nevertheless, the post code yields the following number on 192.com - 0161 872 2338 (along with 0161 682 5150 if you specifically search for MKD). Please try them and let us know if they work.

- just to add the comment  that it's 2008 and they are still doing it (and I am already registered with TPS :-/ )

The Kitchens Direct website now has a section where you can enter your number and they will remove it from their marketing database.

http://www.kitchensdirect.co.uk/contactus/unsubscribe.php