ICSTIS.

http://www.icstis.org/icstis2002/default.asp?node=33

Keep ringing their 0800 number from any landline. It won't cost you a penny,
but every call you make they are charged for the usage.

S

if possible record your conversation and stay polite :-P

Ask him for a fax number or a postal address, and fax or send via
recorded delivery a letter stating that they are

1   not to ring you again
2   not permitted to pass your number onto any third parties
3   going to be charged £1000 per telephone call from them from a
certain date - say 7 days after the date of the letter. This gives
them time to affect their database. If they contact you again after
that point by any means (call, SMS etc) then they agree to the charge
stated.

If he won't give you the fax number, ring the 0800 number and say you
have some contract details to confirm and have been asked to fax it it
- and get the number that way.

If they then contact you again you issue a letter claiming your £1000.
if they fail to pay (which they will!) you take it through the small
claims court - should cost about £80 - whcih you would get back on top
of your £1000 when you win the case.

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ and links within?

Friendly, Kostas.

If they ring you again tell them you'd love a free upgrade, then tell them
your contract is on Orange OVP Virgin tarrif. ;-)
No-one has bothered me since.

Midge

good fun to call their freephone number and put them on hold. make a
new call and set up a conference call with the first number you
called. Do this 4 times so you are in effect calling their freephone
number 5 times at once. Once they are all connected, press 1 on each
call so you are being transferred to the rep. Eventually you will  get
5 reps talking to each other.

hehehehehe

Yes, Ofcom is where you complain.  Try and get as much info from the sales
droid as possible, name of company, physical address, main switchboard
number.

Be creative, get the salesdroid drooling, say you need the info for credit
checks, I even got one company to give me the name of their bank!!!!!

Calling a number that is registered with the tps breaches the licence
agreement that the selling company has with their telephony provider and
they could lose their connection.

Also your telephone number is considered personal data by the information
commissioner so you can complain there too. But if you go down this route,
prepare yourself for a fight, they are the laziest bunch of incompetent
jobsworths in the whole of officialdom.