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Christies Child wrote:http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/Sentinel-Affinion-card-protection

It may be you.....

Neil, not being funny, but I'm sick to the back f*****g teeth with people ringing me about these bladdy things, without coming on Shrimpsvoices and have someone pushing it.

Sorry an all that, but it really does p**s me off with all the phone calls.

Phil,
Totally take your point and like you I get totally pissed off with unsolicited calls of any kind.

The only reason that I brought it to the attention of our fellow SVers was that my daughter had heard about this and that it was launched as a nationwide awareness campaign by a 'reputable' financial site who wanted as many of the population as possible to claim for a financial windfall that they may be entitled to.

What I would suggest is DIY...resulting in the leach companies who take a high percentage of whatever is available having a hard time, something that I welcome...

Just thought I'd say I responded to a letter from AI Scheme last year as I had purchased credit card protection, and a received a cheque for £375 compensation last autumn!

A new trick some of these bloody PPI etc companies are using in order you answer your phone.

They are routing their calls through local exchanges now.

So. The other night I got a call from an "01995" phone number. Garstang area.

I ignored it as I was having my tea and (as I have friends in Garstang) said to myself I'll call back in a bit.

Phones said "01995" number.

"Ah hello, you're ringing back on the strength of a missed call. Have you ever had PPI?"

Promptly told to "cough".

Seasider9601 wrote:A new trick some of these bloody PPI etc companies are using in order you answer your phone.

They are routing their calls through local exchanges now.

So. The other night I got a call from an "01995" phone number. Garstang area.

I ignored it as I was having my tea and (as I have friends in Garstang) said to myself I'll call back in a bit.

Phones said "01995" number.

"Ah hello, you're ringing back on the strength of a missed call. Have you ever had PPI?"

Promptly told to "cough".

I may have said this before, so please excuse me if I have, but you could try this trick. When they ask for Mr/Mrs/Ms whoever, say 'just a minute, I'll go and get them'. Leave the phone for a while so you're running their bill up. They eventually hang up, but...

Seasider9601 wrote:A new trick some of these bloody PPI etc companies are using in order you answer your phone.

They are routing their calls through local exchanges now.

So. The other night I got a call from an "01995" phone number. Garstang area.

I ignored it as I was having my tea and (as I have friends in Garstang) said to myself I'll call back in a bit.

Phones said "01995" number.

"Ah hello, you're ringing back on the strength of a missed call. Have you ever had PPI?"

Promptly told to "cough".

I read this and thought "that's ridiculous!"



...you've got friends??? sorry!

Well, it was work colleagues in Garstang technically but that's longer to type....!!

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it !!

Seasider9601 wrote::lol:

Well, it was work colleagues in Garstang technically but that's longer to type....!!

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it !!

I always ask the cold callers for their password, this always frustrates them ,and is amusing , giving them a temporary password , ''C U Next Tuesday'', I then tell them to hang up and dial my direct number, and quote their password , I then give them the number for ''nice n spicy''.

I used to get a lot of automated cold callers. If I wasn't busy, I'd press the number to speak to an operative, then get chatting with them, not letting them get to their script for as long as possible. Eventually they'd get a chance and mention PPI. I'd then say, "no, I never had it, it was clearly a rip off so I didn't bother". Funnily enough, the calls very quickly dried up!

For once, CC has posted a unique link to a refund scheme. This is not PPI, it's a product sold as Sentinel, a credit card loss/protection company. Part of it includes insurance against loss and it's that part that the company are deemed to have over sold because the card companies themselves cover a lot of the losses.

I've a policy trying to decide whether to claim or not, claimants have their accounts closed immediately and it's actually a good scheme. I've used them twice when I've lost cards and they've been excellent notifying all the banks for me.

After posting that last comment, I decided to go ahead and claim. My compensation cheque arrived today so thanks for posting this Neil.

If you've received anything from AI Scheme, it really isn't PPI, it's a unique compensation scheme about 1 group of companies. I believe the deadline for claims is very close so if you've sat on the paperwork, get it filled in and send it off.

Wonder what I could buy with the cheque .....

Gnasher wrote:After posting that last comment, I decided to go ahead and claim. My compensation cheque arrived today so thanks for posting this Neil.

If you've received anything from AI Scheme, it really isn't PPI, it's a unique compensation scheme about 1 group of companies. I believe the deadline for claims is very close so if you've sat on the paperwork, get it filled in and send it off.

Wonder what I could buy with the cheque .....

A football club