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		<title>08450 264628</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made the horrible, horrible mistake of buying a phone from Phones4U 3 long years ago. 18 months ago when my first contract with them was coming to an end, I started getting daily phone calls (up to 5 a day) from 08450 264628 When I answered a young chavvy sounding lad, who kept calling [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I made the horrible, horrible mistake of buying a phone from <a href="http://www.phones4u.co.uk/">Phones4U</a> 3 long years ago.<br />
18 months ago when my first contract with them was coming to an end, I started getting daily phone calls (up to 5 a day) from 08450 264628<br />
When I answered a young chavvy sounding lad, who kept calling me &#8220;mate&#8221;, informed me he was calling from Phones4U head office to offer me an upgrade deal</p>
<p>I was in Lincoln at the time, ironically heading to the Phones4u store to upgrade anyway. So I told the lad that I would just do it in store so I could look at the phones.<br />
&#8220;We can do you a better deal than the shop mate, cos we work at head office&#8221;.. hrmmm<br />
I hung up and told the guys in the store what had happened, and they said the number wasn&#8217;t Phones4U and they weren&#8217;t sure who it was.<br />
The number then rang again&#8230; I told them they weren&#8217;t who they said they were. The lad then told me my name, address, date of birth, mobile phone I had, and contract I was on&#8230;</p>
<p>WOW what a complete failure in confidentiality on Phones4U and/or Vodafones behalf!!</p>
<p>I eventually took an upgrade in-store, and informed the lad who kept ringing that I had already upgraded. The calls eventually stopped</p>
<p>Fast forward another 18months&#8230; I&#8217;ve now  had 81 calls in the last week from this number.<br />
I originally explained I wasnt interested in another phone, or changing my contract. But that got me a very angry &#8220;What so you dont want to save money then?&#8221; Grrr..<br />
So then I started just cancelling the call, then answering the call but not speaking to see if that would stop them ringing.. it didn&#8217;t.<br />
I then tried random swearing down the phone, and eventually today I&#8217;ve resorted to waiting till they speak then smashing the phone into the desk over and over until they hang up</p>
<p>So enough being well and truly enough, I rang vodafone to get a block put on this number.<br />
After 5 minutes on hold I get a customer services woman who politely informs me &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we can block numbers, let me talk to a colleague&#8221;, and then put me on hold for 15 minutes until I got bored and hung up</p>
<p>The level of sheer incomptence on the behalf of primarily Phones4U, but also Vodafone, as a service provider is ASTOUNDING</p>
<p>My contract ends in June, I have no intention of renewing it whatsoever. I will be taking £345 of my hard earned cash to the nearest O2 store and walking out with an iPhone. I sincerely hope anyone reading this who works at whatever company resides behind the 08450 264628 has to spend a week trapped in a closet listening to a permanent repeat of &#8220;The greatest elevator music ever&#8221;! Grrrrr</p>
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