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The onus for getting a bed is on the person who wants the bed. Not the potential provider.
Unless selling beds is your business...
The youngster wanting the bed was a little silly not to leave his number, may have decided to continue ringing around, or may have had a good (or bad) reason for not leaving it.
Anyone running a b&b or hotel
is in the business of selling (or rather renting) beds. A missed call, as this thread shows, can be a loss to a business.
Having said that, I don't have caller id because SO will not pay for it and won't get tied up with a long contract.
As for TPS, I'm a big fan. It works, but not all the time (international call centres being the biggest problem. Whenever I get an unwanted call I do everything I can to identify the company responsible, including making an appointment for a sales rep to call if appropriate, and report them to the Information Commissioner's Office. They now have bigger teeth and are using them.
I also add the offender to a list of companies I will never do business with. There is no way off the list - ever. Also on the list are companies which have been successfully prosecuted for unwanted cold calling by the ICO.
I encourage everyone to do the same. Unwanted cold calling will only end when companies learn that they will lose potential customers at an alarming rate if they break the law. With information so easily available from the Internet there is no need to pester anyone with unwanted 'phone calls.