A title, a title, my kingdom for a title.

I agree. I've had really pushy sales people call up and argue with me when I say I've signed up to the TPS and that I really don't want them to call, that this isn't a sales call - it's a product survey (about products they happen to sell) and therefore is excluded from the TPS and telling me I don't know what I'm talking about, they have every right to call me.

As though that's going to make me suddenly think 'of course, I must buy from you'... I'd have thought that any decent telemarketer (they're only doing a job after all, unpleasant though it may be for both them and us - it's the marketing departments that hire them who are to blame) isn't going to waste time arguing that could be spent calling the next on the list but some clearly haven't figured that out.

But surely the point of the TPS should be so that I can say I do not wish to receive *any* unsolicited calls for whatever reason from anyone that I have not expressly given my details to.

And while I'm ranting, that includes companies that despite every care to tick/untick any boxes allowing them to give my details to 'relevant' 3rd parties have clearly still sold them to marketing groups who sell them on time and time again. Even if 3rd parties have been allowed access, that permission should not be recursive!

Hmm, a bit of a sore point there I think :)