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Just had a call from a girl asking me to confirm my name.  When I asked who she was, she said 'It doesn't matter' and hung up. Traced call to DM Design.

Poor poor souls who work there.

I had the misfortune of having a friend that went for a job there. And I know others who have worked there (the Kirkcaldy branch btw.)

Nobody wakes up wanting to work there, but they have little choice when jobs are scarce,  the job centre see it as an easy way to get someone off the books for a while.

But even thats a joke.  When you go for interview they ask you to do a shift for free, then even try and get another out of you .  And if they do take you on it is akin to slavery, very little reward for long hours trying to dupe folk into buying kitchens etc.  

Its not a real £1000 off, the cost of your quote will be hugely inflated anyway to cover this!

Its amazing this company have been allowed to continue for so long, breaking the law with TPS and treating their staff so shoddily.  But it won;t stop as for every 1000 calls Mr Mcleod makes a lot of money.  

Gotta feel sorry for the employee's and those people who they phone.

My wife just took a call from this company Whilst putting our children to bed, she realised it was a sales call and put the phone down. They called straight back so she hung up again and then once again. On the fourth occasion I took the call and the jumped up little scotch pr11ck (as I would eventually call him) told me my wife was rude .......... Which is when I referred to him as the above amongst other things. He told me he knew were I lived at which point told him I would gladly jump on a plane and come and find him and I put the phone down. Phone calls number 5,6,7 involved him and his little friends calling up threatening me and laughing down the phone. I was almost ready to pack a bag for my journey to Scotland when I realised these are nothing more than vile little animals with nothing better to do than make people's lives a misery. An utter disgrace. Phone now unplugged with corrie on.

Missed their call, but it's not the first time.

got call from this number asking for mr.------- when told not at home hung up

Dan, these are the scum:

Freephone 0800 185186 or 01236 739200

DM Design address:

1 Deerdykes Place
Westfield Industrial Area
Cumbernauld
G68 9HE

Managing Director:  Donald MacLeod

Come on, lets hound OUT these scum that make a living out of disturbing us.

Does anyone have access to the home address of Elizabeth Ann MacLeod and Donald MacLeod, from director's reports or company accounts?  Anyone have a home phone number for them, or a mobile?

If we all started hassling these people as much as they hassle us, we'd soon put them out of business and restore some peace and sanity.

THESE CALLS ARE ILLEGAL, AND THE DIRECTORS THAT ALLOW IT ARE PURE EVIL SCUM.

The Information Commissioner’s Office is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

ICO Helpdesk Telephone -  0303 123 1113
http://www.ico.gov.uk/

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations govern electronic marketing, including telesales calls, automated calls, marketing faxes and electronic mail.

Telesales calls
If you have received a live telesales call, and you are registered on the TPS, you can complain directly to the TPS in the first instance.

If you continue to receive telesales calls despite complaining to the TPS you should complain to us.

We may be able to help if:

you have received a marketing call;
you can identify the caller;
the caller is based in the UK; and
you have registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) or Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS); or
you have a record showing you had previously informed the caller that you did not wish to receive its marketing calls.

Silent call and I'm on TPS

I was Called by these people, They asked for a Mr Calroy. Obviously, that isn't me, but I had sen this before so I said yes. The woman on the end of the phone asked how old my kitchen is, I said yes, and it continued like so, saying yes at every turn. She eventually strayed from her (probable) script and went as far to say,
"Are you an Idiot?" Obviously I said , no prizes for guessing, Yes! She then hung up. I have never had so much fun with a Telemarketer.

I have just received a call from this number (7.45pm) when asked where they got my number they said "sorry" and hung up.

Claimed they were from Harvey and Grant, kitchen fitters, this company went out of business 1999

As you can see from other posts, this is just another alias for DM Designs. They have a few of these.  I just got a silent call from Bennett & Barnes, which pretends to be based in Oldham  That is another one of their aliases.

Lol "Scum" Get off your high horses you utter clowns. People have jobs to do, who cares what it is, id do anything to put food on the table table and pay the bills. I suppose we will all go on the dole so you lot get peace. Get a grip, its a two min phone call IF that. Get a hold of yourselfs.

Also if you are on tps we can remove you, thats not a problem, but you will get the odd idiot who wont do that. Explain your on tps, dont be a knob about it and maybe someone will remove you from our PHONE SHEETS! Thats right, no database, tps, x directory? Nah not 5 or 10 years ago you werent. All numbers phoned are from a phonebook in the area you live in, if not its previous customers. Deal with it ladies and gentlemen.

You ignore the TPS!!
Why else do you think sites like this exist??
YOU SCUMBAG MORON!!!

You are a nasty, arrogant [***], with no understanding of the law, and no appreciation of different people's reasons for being TPS registered.

You, single-handedly, are maing an excellent case for DM Design to be shut down - YES, the very company you seem to love, and are proud to tell us all that it has been in business for 25 years.

With your posts here, YOU will very likely be the one to get it shut down, and PUT ALL YOU NASTY TOSSER$ ON THE DOLE BY YOUR OWN STUPIDITY!

I'm sure Donnie MacLeod is very proud to have you as his spokesperson...

If anyone is fed up with these scum, why not call to tell Donald MacLeod your thoughts on 0800 185186., or spam them: sales@dmdesign.com.

Every time a moron such as ... comes here to taunt eveyone who's been disturbed by DM Design, Donald MacLeod gets more publicity about his murky shameful past spread across these pages.

Initially I was surprised that ... and its idiot chums hadn't spotted this, but then again, morons are morons are morons...!

So here is the MD's shameful story, yet again.  Well done ... for dragging your boss' past up over and over again.  I doubt he'll thank you for stirring it up over and over again.

EVERYBODY should call Donald MacLeod TIME AND TIME AGAIN, on their FREEPHONE number:

0800 185186 - and ask to speak to Donald MacLeod personally.  If he can't come to the phone, it might be that he's too busy groping his staff:

http://news.scotsman.com/news/Director-pays-out-for-kissing.2346667.jp


Director pays out for kissing employee

GalleryPublished Date: 26 July 2002
By JAMES DOHERTY

A WEALTHY businessman has lost an employment tribunal after it was ruled that he had kissed and groped a teenage employee despite his wife being in the next office.

Donald MacLeod, 44, a director of the family firm DM Design Bedrooms Ltd, of Cumbernauld, was yesterday ordered to pay £1,070 in compensation to a telesales canvasser, Lindsay Wallace, 19, for unlawfully sexually discriminating against her.

The millionaire businessman had asked to see the girl’s tattoos before the tribunal heard how he tried to kiss her and put his hands on her bottom.

At an earlier hearing in May, MacLeod admitted asking her for a kiss in exchange for a piece of wood, but claimed Miss Wallace initiated the advance.

Miss Wallace, from Eastfield, Cumbernauld, had asked MacLeod for a piece of wood in July last year. As they went to collect it from the warehouse, he inquired about her tattoos.

Miss Wallace, who has a tattoo on each arm, three on her hip, and one on her thigh and ankle, added: “He asked to see any ones that weren’t on show. I declined.”

After finding a piece of wood, they returned to an office within the building.

Miss Wallace continued: “He then approached me, tried to place his hands on me, put them around me, then on my bottom. I backed off and asked ‘How do I get out of the office?’ I was confused and very upset.”

MacLeod denied Miss Wallace’s version of events. However, he conceded that he did ask the teenager for a kiss, before insisting that she then made an advance on him.

In a written judgment yesterday, the Glasgow tribunal ruled: “We had no hesitation in preferring the evidence of the applicant to the evidence of Mr MacLeod. We made a close examination of the demeanour of each when giving evidence. We considered Mr MacLeod’s demeanour to be somewhat evasive.”Caller: DM Design

Just received a call asking to speak to my partner, then on to "wanting to speak to the home owner", so we progressed.
Chap was polite, wanting to put my name in a draw for a prize if conditions were met.
Asked if our bathroom, kitchen or bedroom was oldest, and how long since done.
They are looking for 8yrs or over, we don't qualify (I always say work done two yrs ago).
Essentially this is a Direct Marketing permissions ruse.

Just had a call from this number and the guy called Ryan said they are Maxwell and Miller which are a US based company.  Bottom line is they are selling bathrooms and kitchens from Scotland.

Reading some of the earlier posts I do understand that some people need a job and telesales my be the only option for them, probably poorly educated or have a previous criminal record, but nonetheless there are us innocent folk that respect our privacy and ask to be left alone.  That is why we register at the TPS so that these annoying calls don't happen.

These firms should pay attention to the register and leave us alone.

It's funny reading the comments from employees of this company who say "to be fair they DO have £800 vouchers to give away." I used to work for Living Design kitchens back in the late 90's as a door to door canvasser, and know for a fact these "vouchers" have absolutely no meaning at all. If you use one of these "vouchers," they will simply add the value of them to the price of the kitchen in the first place. The kitchens don't have fixed prices, the price is made up/negotiated by the salesperson who comes into your home. I knew a lot of these salespeople and they used to tell me the kind of stuff they did during a sale, like offer free TV's and video's etc. It really worked - people would be motivated to buy the kitchen on 10 year finance, thinking they were getting a "free" TV straight away. What they didn't know, is that the value of the TV was just added to the price of the kitchen (at a profit), so in effect, not only were they buying a kitchen from Living Design, but they were buying a TV too. Two of the Living Design (or whatever they're called now) salespeople I knew (a married couple who went out on sales appointments together) were I believe exposed in an ITV documentary featuring hidden cameras some years ago.