01952602280

Website (Gekodirect.co.uk) is registered to a:

Dave Carter
Easthook
Westgate
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
WV16 5BL

Perhaps some polite complaints to his private address may make him change his marketing attitude.

hung up as soon as i answered.

Phone rang, nobody there when I answered it.  Although I hung up, my line was still connected for about 2 mins!!!!

called, then went dead

This company calls at least once a day.They ask to speak to my manager so I just "POP" them on hold until they hang up.

Thanks for the adresses David and Bob... I hope Mr & Mrs Carter likes pizzas
:-))

Unfortunately there are so many shysters and idiots out there it ruins things when someone genuine comes along. Fair enough you take 50 sales calls a day selling perfumed toilet paper or solar powered torches and inflatable dart boards...point is, you're not the phone expert, so wanting to seek out a deal for yourself is your right however for 2 minutes of your time (literally) you're not obliged to anything and you get expert advice.

If saving money (and dealing with the networks directly) is of interest then you can have a proposal emailed or faxed to you to look at with no obligation. I have personally got reams of sole traders to large corporate customers who are incredibly happy with the service - not all sales companies are the same!!!

Those who work for this Geko or similar cold callers should note!

Its very annoying to be called and then have silence on pick-up!

Its also annoying to have dumb sounding people calling asking for what some might be thinking is rather personal information about our phone contracts.

I would prefer a more honest call starting by saying who they are and that they may be able to get us a free upgrade or a better calling plan.

I have to say that I was conned by Fonehouse when I agreed to them supplying me with an upgrade.  The car holder was not sent until 3 months later and was damaged in transit, the plug in handsfree never arrived but the big LIE was about the GPS on the Nokia N95.  I very specifically asked if the phone included all software and operating systems to use the satnav with voice instructions with out further payments.  I was assured it did by a "Paul" who was evidently more interested in getting his commission than telling the truth!

When the phone arrived it became immediately obvious that a further £48 had to be paid to use the satnav part and that was for three years.

I even tried a few complaints to fonehouse but as usual they dont take complaints seriously ( or to be exact, at all ! )!

We receive 2-3 silent calls each afternoon from this number.

To an extent I agree with AGILE - honesty and integrity up front is key. To put the silent calls issue to bed: The people calling are plugged into a dialler that calls a pot of data - as soon as a person answers a call it pops up basic details on the screen like company name or contact person. This information isn't always 100% accurate.

The main issue and bone of contention for people here is the numerous calls - quite simply, if the calls aren't answered the computer doesn't kinow to stop calling, it simply calls again once all the data has been called, or attempted to call.

The people calling are 'telesales' people - their sole job is NOT TO SELL YOU ANYTHING! It is in fact to ask you roughly how many phones you have, roughly what you spend and if it's ok....for a qualified, professional account manager to contact you IF you're interested in a quote/saving money I.e. Professional, imartial advice. Again...not all cold callers or sales companies are the same, unfortunately the good ones get tarred with the same brush.

Lastly, for 12k per year, maybe some of the people trying to set up a call for an account manager aren't the sharpest tools in the shed but they get me lots of business and happy customers.

they called my office line and when i answered nobody replied but i could here background noise :S just hung up anyways :P

Rings just long enough so that when you find the phone to to answer it, call hangs up. Damn nuisance

Hi me.  You may very well be able to save some people money but we do NOT appreciate being dragged to the phone to be sold things.  It is an intrusion into people's homes and when you are being called repeatedly for something that you didn't ask for, it p*sses people off so don't be acting like you're in the right here.  If we want you, we'll call.  If we don't call, assume we aren't interested.

a big nuisance at first. i decided to hear them out and finally accepted a call back. the day later i was called by a chap called mike. he saved me almost 50 % on my monthly phone bills and sent me out a brand new mobile!! dont hate appreciate!

Woman called regarding the O2 account. 'what o2 account', I said. 'Oh, sorry, it doesn't matter' she replied. I asked her for more details. She hung up.

Another missed call from these berks.

And another call this morning...

spoke with some muppet who told me should would email her manager to 'try' and get our number taken off their database..

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/40- ... il/article.html

Just read this - is this one and the same?

"Me" wrote: "if people would take the time to listen to what we have to say "

If people at Gecko took the time to speak when the phone is answered, then perhaps the rest of us would be more tolerant.

Called me on my mobile whilst I was in USA. It was a good job my phone was not near me because if I had answered it I would have ended up paying to speak to these lying Sh*ts. I called them back ( I have free calls from my US landline)  They told me they acted not only for my provider (Orange) but all of the other networks. They actually said that they were authorised to act for them.  I was so pissed off I didn't ask where they got my number & details from but previously when I got a similar call  I phoned Orange & they assured me they did not give out customers details.
I'm going to contact Orange as obviously these people are liars. I bet Orange do nothing. Also I expect many people would report the matter to Ofcom but see it as such a Faff that they end up not bothering. What would be a good idea is someone producing a standard complaint form  so that we could just fill in the blanks. If we all then used that to inundate Ofcom they may take notice.