Stop Calling

[archerymarc]

Please can somone get my number removed from the calling list as i work shifts and wish not to be woken up by a sales pitch

[AnnS]

Hi @archerymarc

That is annoying.  Depending on the phone you are using, if you have the number, simply add it to your reject list. Presumably, the number is on the list of numbers used by Vodafone.  Please see below.

Is it Vodafone calling?

Although you can opt out of marketing calls and update your marketing preferences by contacting Customer Services or using live chat, it can take up to 30 days before you will eventually stop being contacted.  Probably the quickest way to get the nuisance calls stopped is to answer and tell them not to call again.

[hrym]

When I answered a marketing call and asked not to be called again, that was the last I heard.

[John]

@archerymarc Apologies! We don't mean to wake you 😴😞
To opt out of Marketing calls and texts you can text 'STOP' to 9774.

Please note - this can sometimes take up to 30 working days to take effect 🙂

[Anonymous]

I never get disturbed by my phone while sleeping.  I turn the evil thing off when I go to bed !

[hrym]

Good idea, @Anonymous, but for a lot of people, a mobile is their only means of communication, so it may be desirable to have it on to be able to receive urgent calls.   Would you unplug your landline at night?

[Anonymous]

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@hrym wrote:

Good idea, @Anonymous, but for a lot of people, a mobile is their only means of communication, so it may be desirable to have it on to be able to receive urgent calls.   Would you unplug your landline at night?

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@hrym,

Yes willingly, except that a) I suffer hearing loss, so if our landline rings at night I won't hear it through two closed doors and b) we have an answering machine.  

I turn the mobile off for a host of reasons really. Firstly, anyone I would want to hear from in the small hours is in the house with me. Secondly, when I was still working I was sometimes on-call for work so I HAD to leave the mobile on; now, I have the luxury of choosing to sleep undisturbed.   Then there's the random drunks who misdial in the middle of the night, and the organisations who send advertising SMS at odd times.......  

Perhaps it's just me, but after years of office work and nuisance calls I've developed the attitude that "just because it rings doesn't mean I have to answer it" 

[donnyguy]

You can also register your mobile number on the telephone preference scheme as well (www.tpsonline.org.uk) and get yourself removed from lists.

But to the point about disturbed sleep, I have to admit that Apple's 'Do Not Disturb' functionality (and I'm guessing other smart phones offer it too) changed my life.

I have it set up so unless I'm on my phone, all alerts are silenced after 22:00 so I never get disturbed during the night. What really does it for me though is the fact you can add people to your favourites so their calls will get through. So the people who you would expect to call in an emergency. 

It was never calls that did it for me, they rarely happen at silly o clock. It was all the bings and beeps for emails, texts and other notifications that used to have me seeing red at 03:11 in the morning,