Not quite as high as a 118 number - maybe typically 20p compared to 50p from a mobile - so I'm not sure about your suggestion their intent is to make the mobile companies rich.

It's more likely either that they just didn't do the research, or are actually intending to deceive, probably the former

I'm worried about the received text messages though. Are they premium rate? And even if not, how many unsolicited ones will arrive later?

I just called it and yes it is free on landliens of course.  I managed to find out that the contract for this new service which launched last Friday (8 February 2008), is with Teleperformance in Newry.  Perhaps that helps.

NGMsGhost wrote on Feb 8^th, 2008 at 12:49am:

Resolved - see http://forum.niftylist.co.uk/index.php?topic=3512.msg17564#msg17564

jimbo2005 wrote on Feb 12^th, 2008 at 6:57pm:


The main UK address of MM Teleperformance actually seems to be in Bristol though:-

See

www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&chan...

St. James House
Moon St, Bristol, BS2 8QY
0117 916 8000

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Either way the reality seems to be that their staff in NI are a bunch of presumably low paid but definitely ignorant lieing toerags that use the excuse that it isn't their fault if your mobile provider charges for 0800 numbers and where a supervisor swore blind that if I called them on my Vodafone Pay As You Go using 800100100 that this was definitely a free call and that he had tried it from his Vodafone and that was so.  Instead of course my Vodafone subsequently merely showed "Number Error" when I dialled 800100100.

moneysavin wrote on Feb 26^th, 2008 at 1:38am:


They offers a service on their website to send a text with the 0800 number to your mobile but do not indicate there is any charge.  However from a subsequent reduction in my Vodafone PAYG call credit I strongly suspect this is an expensive reverse billed text message.  The website also states calls to 0800 on your mobile are normally charged at regular rates, again a lie.

I have tried to get the two directors of this company to talk to me and they both dodge my phone calls.  Their PR agency has called me and really, really assures me that 0800 is a free call on a mobile and it is not their fault if some mobile companies actually charge for these calls (in fact they all do).  I try telling her that an 01 or 02 or 03 prefixed number will be much cheaper but she does not have the tecnical brain to understand it or it does not match her PR spiel.  I try pointing out that mobile phone users are their main potential customer base but again they do not want to listen.

In my view these people are actually scammers who are probably making a fortune off these reverse billed text messages they offer to send to your mobile phone from their website.

Only use this service from a landline and avoid it from your mobile at all costs.

beanoni wrote on Mar 6^th, 2008 at 11:39am:


But how did you last in one for two years?  I always reckoned I would be fired on the second day from any call centre for deviating from official company procedure.  Only those who either don't like to or are incapable of thinking for themselves can possibly be happy working in a call centre.  I once worked for Avis one summer holiday as a student vacuuming and washing cars and occasionally driving them between locations and although that was hard work and long hours (13 hours per day) it was work with a point and not mindless work.  A lot of call centre work is what I would call mindless work that leaves nobody (employee or caller) happy at the end of it.

Nothing against NI per se as the best BT call centre I ever experienced was in NI due to BT paying almost the same wages across the UK.  Unfortunately the likes of Capita pay minimum wage and only employ yes men and hence suffer accordingly.  Unfortunately a very uneducated NI person will also typically have a very harsh NI accent and the two things together I find very hard to take.  Working class culture in NI does strike me as very aggressive (even more than say London).  The people in Southern Ireland (Eire) in call centres are often extremely stupid but also charming and laid back with it.  That is a little easier to take.

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Sure but no faceless regime can ever function without its eager footsoldiers ready to do as they are told.  If everyone was as free thinking and non conformist as me then the world's dictators would have no chance at all.