Is there any value in 'being nice' to your DCA?

[PGH7447]

Nice to a DCA employee, lets see, in the bad old days pre CAG when I was getting dozens of calls a day from one psrticularly nasty bunch, and I was saying the same thing everytime because the dozy idiots could not or would not update their system - and all I was getting was abuse and more abuse - then the answer is No

 

Move forward post CAG - no longer get phone calls just get the usual speil from their well designed threat-o-grams that nearly always mentions court or hell and damnation in some form or other - then the answer is still

 

NO NO NO NO NO NO

 

Sod em they took this employment up so they can suffer the consequences

[impecunious]

Being assertive is much more effective than being aggressive but not sure a DCA would recognise the subtle difference!

 

Impecunious!

[comebackjimmy]

I have thought about this a bit since the thread started. In practical terms the situation should never arise because:

 

a. If they call us we should put the phone down without speaking and

 

b. We never call them.

 

As our only communications will be by written means our letters should be business-like, to the point and without abuse or swearing as we hold the high ground. We already know their letters will be bold typefaces, garish and dangerous reds and borders and full of twisted psychology, in other words not "nice" but we can simply file them and go on to have a good day.

[charlie*]

It costs nothing to be polite, regardless of whatever is said to you AND, YOU FEEL BETTER FOR IT TOO.

 

Be the reverse and you lower yourself to their level.

 

I just say, 'my solicitor tells me/my missus I/she should not discuss my/her affairs with anyone I/she do/does not know... all this fraud y'know, I'm sure you understand - sorry, goodbye'.

 

They don't phone any more, except one every few weeks - and they're on a loser anyway... non-compliant CC agreement & DN (RBS).

 

Of course, that is not say they won't all pop their heads over the parapet from time to time. Oh what I would give for my old Lee-Enfield, a sniper sight and a few clips of ammo...

Edited April 9, 2010 by charlie*

[PGH7447]

 

Be the reverse and you lower yourself to their level.

 

 

Sorry I could not get that low, no matter how hard I tried

[angry cat]

It costs nothing to be polite, regardless of whatever is said to you AND, YOU FEEL BETTER FOR IT TOO.

 

Be the reverse and you lower yourself to their level.

 

 

The above applies in general but;

DCA's are exempt!

 

Being polite, will get you nowhere.

[comebackjimmy]

Being polite will not get you anywhere. Being silent by not ever talking to them will!

[loopinlouie]

They dont like me blowing kisses at them:confused:

[DonkeyB]

I'm surprised we haven't had a troll on here yet!

[loopinlouie]

Maybe for once they realise lectures on them helping us help them etc, is like peeing in the wind:D

[impecunious]

Unfortunately, none-face-to-face communication is more likely to induce torrents of unimaginable abuse . In fact, 60% of us are more likely to lose our rag on the phone compared to being rational and discussing things face-to-face with a human being.

 

I was one of those "60%" - frightening behaviour for a graduate in English language

 

DCAs bring out the very worse in me!! So very difficult not to lower yourself to their level. So, another very great reason for NOT talking to them on the phone - EVER!!

 

Impecunious!

[vjohn82]

I was one of those "60%" - frightening behaviour for a graduate in English language

 

Well as a History graduate I can tell you that throughout the ages when advanced civilisations have come up against the lesser ones it is usually the more advanced culture that ends up bludgering them... despite the evolutionary gap.

 

I would use the same logic that we are on a higher intellectual/evolutionary line than those who work at the DCAs and therefore we will simply revert to our primal nature :D:D

[DonkeyB]

Think I've found where DCAs come from...

 

BBC News - South African fossils could be new hominid species

[vjohn82]

Wrong DB... it's here

 

World Archaeology - Fossil Faeces provide America's oldest human DNA

[DonkeyB]

Nah... HFO used to have loads of Saffas working in South Wimbledon. Never any Yanks (though 'yank' is what I reckon many DCAs are good at. Did I spell that right?).

[vjohn82]

It was spelt almost perfectly

 

Hahahaha

[angry cat]

Personally speaking and having suffered the Unfair Covert Practices employed by DCA's. I can see no point in being polite or, extending to them any courtesy whatsoever.

 

DCA's ride rough shod over the OFT guidelines on debt collection.

If they do not actually cross the line, they circumnavigate the line far beyond commom decency.

 

Their weapon is psychological harassment:

'we may', 'we might'...

 

e.g. we may instruct an agent to call at your home in order to make a doorstep assessment.

 

Answer:

Good Luck Matey, I have a bloody big Rottweiler (very friendly actually but she does not like DCA's)

 

Sign on gate: "BEWARE OF THE DOG"

"NO HAWKERS, NO CIRCULARS"

[cashins]

Personally speaking and having suffered the Unfair Covert Practices employed by DCA's. I can see no point in being polite or, extending to them any courtesy whatsoever.

 

Agree with that.

 

Would you be polite to what was stuck to you shoe and is now smelling your car out?

 

David

[Guest]

 

 

i'm a humanist , and even i wouldn't be nice to a dca!

Edited April 10, 2010 by Ford

[cerberusalert]

Do the Kilmarnock cowboys still have facility on there website where you could chat online with a droid?

 

Now that was fun.

[vjohn82]

Do the Kilmarnock cowboys still have facility on there website where you could chat online with a droid?

 

Now that was fun.

 

Now that WAS fun

 

Shame I got them shut down... as far as I know it's no longer live.

 

:D:D:D

[Guest]

Do the Kilmarnock cowboys still have facility on there website where you could chat online with a droid?

 

Now that was fun.

 

kilmarnock are a good football team! and there are plenty of droids around!

 

yes, that was fun!

[F_DCAs]

In answer to the OP's original question - 'none whatsoever'.

[Pinky69]

No wonder he was nice to you with a F&F of 70% - he saw you coming. "Nice" and "DCAs" is a contradiction in terms. If they don't like their jobs they can always leave and try to become better **** than they are now. Nice to them? Yes? No? ........mmmm - NO! God that was a difficult decision - not.

[lickthewallfatboy]

what's the difference between a DCA and a trampoline?

 

You get tired jumping up and down on a trampoline