Blog-Ed

No longer a Barclaycard customer

You might remember my annoyance at being left loads of dead messages on my answering machine messages by some cold calling dudes.

Well eventually when I was in and they called me I found out that they were calling on behalf of Barclaycard... trying to sell me some life insurance or some crap like this. Since that date I've been called a number of times. Today being one of these days...

[Phone Rings and gets answered by me]

Me:

Hello...

[pause]

Me:

...hello...

[pause]

Me:

...hello hello hello hello...?

[pause]

Woman:

Hi, I'm phoning on behalf of Barcalycard.

Me:

I'm not interested.

Woman:

Won't you hear me out?

Me:

No, you're phoning on behalf of Barcalycard, I'm not interested to what anyone else who has phoned me on behalf of Barclaycard has had to say. I doubt you'll be any different.

Woman:

So, you'd like the phone calls to stop?

Me:

Yes.

Woman:

I can add you to a list so you won't be called again...

Me:

That would be wonderful.

Woman:

OK, I've done it. It'll take about 4 months¹ for it to pass though the system.

Me:

Thank you so much.

Woman:

I'm sorry for wasting your time.

Me:

Don't worry about it, it's not your fault. Goodbye!

¹ Carrier pigeon I reckons...

I've had it with Barclaycard I thought to myself... so phoned them up to tell them that I no longer wanted their card to be part of my wallet.

Man:

Why would you like to close your account sir?

Me:

Well... I'm getting fed up of being phoned by every call centre going saying "I'm phoning on behalf of Barclaycard and I'm wondering if you would like to purchase some life insurance of us, some car insurance off us, some, some, anything" [sniffle]. I'm just getting fed up, Barclaycard seem to have given my number to everyone going, who want to sell me crap I don't want. So, I just thought I'd save everyones time and just cancel the accuont with you.

Man:

Well if you are only closing because you don't want to get further sales calls, I can put it on your account that you don't want this.

Me:

Well it annoyed me that you did it in the first place, so I can't be bothered being with you anymore¹.

Man:

So you'd prefer to close the account.

Me:

Erm, yes...

¹ Erm... yeah, it sounds like I'm dumping them! Heh.

So, there you go.

[With this post I've tried out a new way of using HTML to try and make the conversations clear... not sure if it'll work or not though...]