Telemarketing from IW - 01273647939

[maymorganlondon]

Hi there

I recently placed my first order with IW for about 7 years. All of a sudden, I'm now getting calls from this number in the Brighton area. It made interesting reading when I googled the number, as it appears to be telemarketing for IW (and was also associated with BidUp TV in the past).

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[Greg]

Is it trying to sell you the IW Extra Club membership?

 

[maymorganlondon]

Is it trying to sell you the IW Extra Club membership?

It rings before I can answer it! It's run on the same number 3 times today alone. When I googled, this it seems some people got someone trying to sell VIP membership, and some it just rang off - not very patient are they?!?

 

[Moth]

I've been plagued with this in the past. Just ignore it and eventually it will stop. Before I knew who it was, I did answer at times and there was never anyone there. I've complained to OFCOM about this a couple of times too but I don't know if that made any difference, although they didn't call after the last order I placed.

 

[maymorganlondon]

I've changed the telephone number on my account details. If I'd realised this sort of thing might happen, I'd have put a spoof telephone number in in the first place...
So far I've had calls from this same number 4 times yesterday and 3 times today. Each time, by the time I've got my phone out the ringing's stopped, so I don't even get any satisfaction from telling whoever it is to stop calling me!

 

[Greg]

OK, I got a phone call from these people a couple of days ago, presumably because I bought something off them earlier in the week. They tried to sell me their Ideal World Rewards package for £79.99 and would I like to try a month's trial. He was very persistent and would not take 'no' for an answer. instead of getting angry, I just put the phone down.

Ideal World, if any of your representatives are reading this: I do not appreciate being pestered with these marketing tactics from your company or your partners It was upsetting and has turned me off ever buying from Ideal World in the future. I can see a lot of vulnerable people being intimated by this sort of pressure selling.

It is an utter disgrace. :mysmilie_51:

 

[maymorganlondon]

In 3 days I got nine calls from these guys - but never managed to speak to them. I'm hoping that's it now. Like I said, I've now changed the phone number I've got listed for my account. When I googled this phone number on some threads I read about this people had actually put IW's number as their phone number :mysmilie_17:

I can see that by the sound of your experience I was actually lucky (or am I tempting fate and do I have another week of phonecalls awaiting me?)...

It's pretty disgusting, though. Either getting bombarded with hang-up phone calls, or getting an aggressive sales call - neither is acceptable.

 

[Greg]

The guy said, "I am going to send you..." That's red rag to a bull to me. I hate pushy sales people. Once you say no, they should respect that and say goodbye!

 

[maymorganlondon]

The guy said, "I am going to send you..." That's red rag to a bull to me. I hate pushy sales people. Once you say no, they should respect that and say goodbye!

I don't know the data protection act very well, but I can't believe IW can be wholly compliant with it.