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Old 8th April 2007, 04:30   #1 (permalink)
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Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

I couldn't find an appropriate forum to place this in so have chosen here.

If you want to talk directly to any of the below companies, use the following numbers to cut out the call centre.

TELEPHONE CHEAT CODES FOR MAJOR COMPANIES


Alliance & Leicester 0870 9011001

American Express 01273 576576

Bank of Scotland 0845 7213141

Barclays 0845 7555555

BUPA 0845 6090111

Capital One 0800 9525150

Comet 0870 542 5425

Dell 0870 152 4699

DHL 0870 1100300

DVLA 0870 240009

Egg 0845 1233233

Goldfish 0141 2049005

Halifax 0845 7203040

HSBC 0845 7404404

Lloyds TSB 0800 0969779

NatWest 0870 3331993

NHS Direct 0845 4647

O2 0870 2410202

PC World 0870 2420444

Royal Mail 0845 7740740

Sainsbury's Bank 0845 3055888

Sky 0870 2404040

Tesco 0845 6040409

3Mobile 07782 333333


DON'T PRESS ANYTHING

Carphone Warehouse 0870 111 7400

Onetel 0800 957 0523

P&O 08705 212121

Southern Electric 0845 7444555

Southern Water 0845 2720845

Virgin Holidays 0870 220 2707


ENTER WRONG MOBILE No 3 TIMES

Orange 450 from Orange mobile


PRESS <*> <0> EACH TIME YOU HEAR AUTOMATED VOICE

BT 0800 800 150


PRESS <0> THREE TIMES SLOWLY

T-Mobile 0845 412 5000
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Old 8th April 2007, 07:37   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

Thanks for that Alan.

Nothing more frustrating than getting a machine talking to you when you want to talk to a person.I'll try bombarding BT again about my lousy internet connection (28kb/s) though trying to get someone in India to understand that our phone lines are aluminum and the signal won't reach us even though he insists it will.
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Old 8th April 2007, 09:04   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

I think some of these are also on www.saynoto0870.com
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Old 8th April 2007, 11:43   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

You beat me to it Martyn, everytime I see an 0870 number I get straight on to my PC and go to say no to 0870 it works.
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Old 8th April 2007, 11:49   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

Ive had this for a while now tried just last week to get through to Virgin Net and it don't work, they redirect you back to the original number or a freephone if you have a Virgin phone, I wouldn't be surprised if lots more will do the same once they realise what's going on.

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Old 8th April 2007, 12:28   #6 (permalink)
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Ive had this for a while now tried just last week to get through to Virgin Net and it don't work, they redirect you back to the original number or a freephone if you have a Virgin phone, I wouldn't be surprised if lots more will do the same once they realise what's going on.

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I think you are right but i'm using it weekly and in the main it works. Its work for them to do this though as phone numbers are on websites, stationery and the like.
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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

wish i'd had that list a few weeks ago..i was going round in circles trying to speak to someone personally at Lloyds...
in the end i sent a really vicious email....and got a result.

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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

What Ifind really annoying lately is that if you ring an 0870, 0871 etc number they will queue you indefinitely but if you get an 0800 freephone number they won't let you queue, they will just tell you the queue is too long and ring off.
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Re: Direct Phone Lines to Big UK Companies

Wish you had the Thomas Cook no put me through to a 20p a minute line i wanted to pay the extra tax told me all about what they had to offer !!!!!!!!!!
then told me they couldnt answer my call all customer service busy after 20 minutes at 20p a minute i was fuming
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Wish you had the Thomas Cook no put me through to a 20p a minute line i wanted to pay the extra tax told me all about what they had to offer !!!!!!!!!!
then told me they couldnt answer my call all customer service busy after 20 minutes at 20p a minute i was fuming

Thats disgraceful

These numbers were on www.saynoto0870.com

Thomas Cook 0870 4434441 01733 417000 Faraway Holidays (Head Office)
Thomas Cook 0870 7505711 01733 416000 Thomas Cook Retail Ltd
Switchboard = 01733 417100
Thomas Cook 0870 6075086 01274 387713 Tour Operations Admin
also 01274 387726
Thomas Cook 0870 7580184 01733 335500 Customer services
also 01324 565289
Thomas Cook 0870 7505711 0151 5521300 Retail Sales
Liverpool - Church St
Thomas Cook 0870 1111111 01274 387425 Tour Operations Admin
01274 387634 - Emergency line
(travel in 24hrs)
Thomas Cook 0845 3089648 01625 445900 Wilmslow
Thomas Cook 0845 3089192 029 20422501 Cardiff - Queen Street
Also: 029 20422502 & 029 20422504
Thomas Cook 0845 3089494 01738 417001 Perth - High Street
Also: 01738 417002
Thomas Cook 0845 3089104 01235 702400 Abingdon - Bury Street
Thomas Cook 0845 3089199 0121 7488790 Birmingham - Castle Vale
Thomas Cook Airlines 0870 2430416 0161 4895757 Office Switchboard
at Manchester airport
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