08005610056

home and mobile around 6pm

i cant believe how stupid they are, i just hang up every time its ridiculous, i get at least one call a day and sometimes 3 or 4 any time between like 9am n 9pm, i work alot of night shifts and most of the time just got off to sleep when they ring, unacceptable

Every bloody day, I dont nor have never given them any ideas that I might want blinds

Pain in the proverbial.I never pick the phone up but they just don't take the hint.I slipped up once and answered told them I wasn't interested but they still keep phoning.Don't seem to bother what time of day or night is.Even on Sunday.Very rude.

I have previously bought sanderson blinds. Every night now for the past month I have received calls from 08005610056. I answer, they hang up. It is absolutely preposterous! But what can be done about this? I need some new blind cords as some of mine have perished (they are less than 2 years old), perhaps I should negotiate a decent discount on the cost of replacement given that they keep harassing me with unwanted calls.

I have just had these awful people calling me. They dial, ask to speak to me and introduce themselves and then hang up....115pm on a Sunday afternoon...isn't any weekend time sacriscant anymore?
Here is a weblink to their editorial team to complain about their bolshy sales calls.
http://www.thomas-sanderson.co.uk/Thomas-Sanderson-Editorial-Team.aspx
I shall be calling Helen Sanderson on Monday morning and declaring that if I had ever thought about their blinds in the dim and distant past, I will NEVER now buy blinds from their company.

You can vote for Thomas Sanderson Blinds Ltd here - I have left a negative for hassling me repeatedly.

http://www.levelbusiness.com/doc/company/uk/02589326

THOMAS SANDERSON BLINDS LIMITED
7 WATERBERRY DRIVE
WATERLOOVILLE
HAMPSHIRE
PO7 7UW

Company No: 02589326

Vote:
Would you recommend THOMAS SANDERSON BLINDS LIMITED?
Yes
No

Quality: How would you rate their service?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Payment: Does THOMAS SANDERSON BLINDS LIMITED pay on time?
Yes
No

Directors:

JAMES CURLEY (47)
MILLSTREAM HOUSE THE PADDOCK, GUSSAGE ALL SAINTS, DORSET, WIMBORNE BH21 5ET
Position:
6 Years
Appointment date:
05/11/2004
Type:
Secretary
Occupation: DIRECTOR

NIGEL JOHN CAMPKIN (49)
4 THE CEDARS, HAMPSHIRE, FAREHAM PO16 7AJ
Position:
12 Years
Appointment date:
01/06/1999
Type:
Director
Occupation: CHARTERED ENGINEER

LAURANCE WILLIAM JAMES COOKE (62)
5 THE WARDENS, WARWICKSHIRE, KENILWORTH CV8 2UH
Position:
10 Years
Appointment date:
06/03/2001
Type:
Director
Occupation: COMPANY DIRECTOR

http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/thomas-sanderson-blinds

Employee who engaged in offensive banter was not harassed

News
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an Employment Tribunal's decision which rejected the majority of an employee's claims of harassment because the employee had participated in offensive banter and was good friends with his 'tormentors'.

Implications
This decision confirms that when Tribunals determine whether or not an employee has been harassed in the workplace, the employee's own behaviour and conduct at work will be relevant; especially if they have joined in any office banter.  If, as in this case, the employee's participation is genuinely willing, is in itself offensive and they remain on friendly terms with their 'tormentors', then this may be sufficient to defeat any harassment claim.

However, this decision does not mean that employers should ever be complacent about the existence of office or workplace 'banter'.  Employees are much more likely to raise grievances and submit Tribunal claims where they work in an environment where 'banter' based on or related to a person's sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation or religion or belief is tolerated by management and is allowed to continue unchecked.  The employer in this case may have successfully defended the majority of the harassment claims, but at the cost of several years of time consuming and expensive litigation, not to mention the bad publicity about its workplace.  Even the Employment Tribunal described the employer's business as a 'truly horrid place to work'.

The safest course of action for any employer is to adopt a zero tolerance approach to so-called banter which relates to a person's or their friends or relatives sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation or religion or belief.  Employers should ensure they have an equal opportunities policy and that harassment is defined as an act of gross misconduct in their disciplinary procedures.  Employers and line managers should, if possible, also be trained on equality and diversity.

Details
In the case of Thomas Sanderson Blinds Limited (Thomas Sanderson) v Mr English, Mr English worked as Thomas Sanderson's Area Sales Manager.  Mr English is heterosexual and is married with three children.  However on the basis that he had been educated at boarding school and live in Brighton, his colleagues began to subject him to homophobic comments (although they knew that Mr English was not gay).  At a separate hearing, the Court of Appeal had held that despite the fact his colleagues knew Mr English was not gay and the fact he is not gay, Mr English was still covered by the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003.  Therefore Mr English could still claim that he had been harassed on the grounds of sexual orientation.

When the case returned to the Employment Tribunal to decide whether or not Mr English had in fact been harassed, they heard how he had been described as a '[***]' and articles had been written about him in Thomas Sanderson's internal magazine portraying him as a gay man.

However the Employment Tribunal also heard how Mr English himself engaged in similarly offensive behaviour.  He wrote articles in Thomas Sanderson's magazines which the Tribunal found were 'riddled with sexist and ageist innuendo'.  He had also been obliged to apologise to a woman for an offensive remark about her breasts.  Furthermore, Mr English remained good friends with his 'tormentors' going holiday with one of them and visiting another in hospital.

Then in August 2005, another homophobic article was written about Mr English in Thomas Sanderson's internal magazine, which Mr English took offence over.  After the meeting where Mr English's workplace performance was called into question, Mr English decided to complain by email about the homophobic conduct.  Thomas Sanderson invited Mr English to a meeting to discuss his complaint, Mr English then resigned and brought a claim of harassment to the Employment Tribunal.

The Employment Tribunal found that with the exception of the August 2005 article, Mr English had not suffered any harassment because his own offensive behaviour meant that the conduct he complained of did not violate his dignity or create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for him.  Mr English appealed to the EAT.

The EAT upheld the Employment Tribunal's decision.  The EAT confirmed that the Employment Tribunal had been right to ask about Mr English's own perceptions and feelings in order to determine whether the effect of the unwanted conduct was to violate his dignity or to create an adverse environment.

As Mr English and his 'tormentors' had engaged in similar conduct towards each other while remaining generally good friends, the Tribunal was entitled to reach the decision it did.

Calling 2-4 times daily then hang up when answered extremely distressing as my husband is seriously ill in hospital and they too use 0800 no to contact me so I am obliged to answer phone just in case its an emergency.

Also just got a call from this 08005610056 ... didn't answer it. Glad after all these years we've enabled CLI on our phones. Worth the £2/pm!

You wouldn't happen to have their phone numbers would you ? We could all try phoning them on their private lines at all hours of the day and night see how they like it!!!!!

Received a call from Thomas Sanderson blinds, told them I was registered for no sales calls and they said they would take my office number that they called off the list.     When they pressed for a time when both my wife and I would be there told them I was not going to be talking to a foot in the door sales person who would not take not for an answer a put the phone down.

I kept getting calls today from Thomas Sanderson Blinds.

1st call: Noise of a call centre or busy office, then hung up before I could.

2nd call: Asking for a Mrs Louise Melish or something similar. I asked to speak to a line manager/team leader and, after being put on hold for a minute or so, explained that my number is TPS registered. She said yes she could see that and that she would remove my number.

According to Oftel, this number is operated by Cable & Wireless, whether it has now been passed onto another operator or is being operated by a customer of C&W (or whatever company C&W are now!) I can't tell without investigating further.

calls every day including evenings and sundays

This company is Thomas Sanderson. They rang and hung up when I answered.

They have rung twice today, on our home number, no idea how they got it, and no-one to talk to (busy office in the background, no talk directed my way).

Suspect they are waiting for my wife to answer as women are seen (note: not my experience) as easier marks.

Personally I take one of two approaches - make silly noises down the line, or wind them up by playing along and get on with whatever else I was doing at the time.

Out of the last 100 calls to my phone this company has made 24.They  are calling twice a day on my land line and twice a day on my mobile. Christ alone knows how they got the number. They are a real pest.This has been going on for months,you would really think they'd take the hint when we never answer.
If this was someone pestering me in the street I could do them for harassment. It's beyond a joke.

If there is anyone reading this from Thomas Sanderson, this is not the way to get custom,you are alienating potential clients. If I need blinds in the future I wouldn't go to you if you were the last company on earth.Your blinds must be really bad if you have to try to force people to buy them by bombarding them with calls. Get a proper job.

This number is a nuisance and calls around 3 times a day, I do not usually reply but when my husband did there was no reply.

three calls today, silience, then a very faint hello, silence phone at prime times lunch time 1pm and dinner time 6pm

Got phone call today from them where they hung up just after I said hello, my mum tells me she gets quite a few calls from them every week and we're starting to get very annoyed at them, considering phoning up Trading standards and complaining about the company.