{"id":242,"date":"2008-10-03T14:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-10-03T14:32:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T14:32:04","slug":"0845-0262572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"0845 0262572"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another number that&#8217;s been calling my mobile on a daily basis over the last couple of weeks.  This one belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phones4u.co.uk\/\">Phones 4U<\/a>, a company in the UK mobile phone industry which firmly believes in the hard sell ethos.  At the moment they aren&#8217;t going to sell me anything because despite calling me many times I&#8217;ve yet to hear a voice on the other end, they just hang up.<\/p>\n<p>I think I was with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phones4u.co.uk\/\">Phones 4U<\/a> when I first took out a Vodafone contract, many years back.  In 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodafone.co.uk\">Vodafone<\/a> thought better of that arrangement and dealt with me directly instead.  Needless to say I got a much better deal from then on.  Looking at their website now it&#8217;s pretty obvious they are still unable to offer Vodafone.  Score one for Vodafone for not being associated with their nasty hard-sell tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Phones4U was owned by high-profile, corporate tough-guy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Caudwell\">John Caudwell<\/a>. He sold them in 2005 and I&#8217;m not sure who owns them now. Don&#8217;t really care either, I just wish they&#8217;d stop calling me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another number that&#8217;s been calling my mobile on a daily basis over the last couple of weeks. This one belongs to Phones 4U, a company in the UK mobile phone industry which firmly believes in the hard sell ethos. At the moment they aren&#8217;t going to sell me anything because despite calling me many&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=242\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">0845 0262572<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crank-calls","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}