I think when you dial my phone number it should prompt you for your password like my ftp does. That would make me happy.
I do the opposite...pretend like I'm interested and then change my mind (and ask to be removed from the list) after stringing out the conversation for as long as possible. I've managed to drag some of them along for 10-minute rides, only to leave without a sale.
I used to get 3-5 calls a day from those rat finks, but ever since I dropped my landline and stuck with mobile I haven't gotten one. Hopefully that won't change
I'm not arguing one side or the other here.
But getting back to the title of the thread: Well, DUH!
But getting back to the title of the thread: Well, DUH!
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Mine does....kinda sort of. If the incoming number comes in as "unavailable" or "out of area" it says "If you are a telemarketer, please add this person to your do not call list, and hang up. If you intended to call this number, please press one".
And, since 99% of all telemarketers have no way of pressing 1, they are blocked and disconnected.
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Which is why you get bombarded with calls every night.
Yaknow, it's a funny thing. I'm a homeowner with perfect credit and I haven't had a telemarketing call to my home in 6 weeks. Probably 10 or more times, I have explained for the benefit of this forum how to stop getting those calls and the whiners still whine and the losers still brag about how they answer the calls wrong.
Personally, I think most of you secretly like getting telemarketing calls. The phone probably wouldn't ever ring otherwise. Enjoy.
Originally posted by: dullard
What I hate most is when I tell a telemarketer that I don't want their product and I want to be off their list and hang up - and then that same person calls me back 5 times in the next 10 minutes to complain that I wasn't very nice when I made those statements. What did I just ask them? Yep I asked not to be called! So why are they calling me back on purpose? I've had that happen more times than I can count. I even one day got so many calls from the same lady (after asking her not to call me ever again) that I just started picking the phone up and hanging it up immediately. I eventually got so tired that I let it ring and the answering machine recorded: "Don't you hang up on me, it is my right to telemarket and I can keep calling you legally as long as I want".Often it's 4 or 5 phone calls per evening....each made by a determined (obnoxious) telemarketer that takes 10 min to get off the damn phone. I have better things to do than deal with those f*cksticks every evening. I've been diligent about telling each one to put me on the do-not-call list and keeping a log of this. First bastard that calls me twice is gonna get sued for at least 500 beans.
NuclearFusi0n: it isn't "just a phone call". It is illegal harassment.
Dayuumm. you guys have really aggressive telemarketers around there. i've never had one do that to me. i say i'm not interested immediately and hang up. i don't even listen to see if they have anything else to say. i've never had one call back and complain before. that is harrasment. i did telemarketing for a while, so i'm kind of sympathetic to them but i don't let them keep me on the phone any longer than it takes me to determine that i'm not interested in their product and then i say it. end of conversation.
It seems so. Telemarketing isn't that bih here (Finland) I have lived on my own for about.... 5 years now. In all that time I have dealed with... 1-2 telemarketers and one telephone survey. And it really works if you just say "No thank you, I'm not interested".
LFMAOYaknow, it's a funny thing. I'm a homeowner with perfect credit and I've had a telemarketing call to my home in 6 weeks. Probably 10 or more times, I have explained for the benefit of this forum how to stop getting those calls and the whiners still whine and the losers still brag about how they answer the calls wrong.
Personally, I think most of you secretly like getting telemarketing calls. The phone probably wouldn't ever ring otherwise. Enjoy.
I guess all us "whiners" and "losers" are too stupid to comprehend the Great Secret of How to Answer Telemarketers. Explain it to us for the 11th time, Master Homeowner Vic of the Perfect Credit. *snicker*And while you're at it tell me how you knew I was bombarded with calls every night, since I wasn't even aware of that fact myself. Is it some kind of telepathy? Or just an arrogance that manifests itself in your flinging unwarranted insults at other posters and making wild assumptions about their personal lives??
Actually, you misquoted that. It's:
And that is the course of action I recommend against telemarketers.
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That is what I say. Well actually I say "Please place my name and my number on your do-not-call list". But that doesn't do a thing. The first say that it will take 30 days to process my request, and guess what no telemarketing ad runs for more than 30 days. So as soon as they get a new ad they can call you again. By the way, I unfortunately had the answering machine recording before the 1991 law. Otherwise I'd be $500 richer.Dullard: you have to tell them to place you on their do-not-call list (pretty much those exact words). They think it's terribly funny when you tell them to take you off their list, since that's not how it actually works.
Like I said: keep a list of who you tell this to and when you do. If they call you back after you make this request, you can tag them for $500 per call under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
The telemarketing capital of the world is Omaha Nebraska - which is less than an hour drive from where I live (and many live in my home town). Now imagine telemarketers when they don't have to pay long distance charges...
Originally posted by: dullard
That is what I say. Well actually I say "Please place my name and my number on your do-not-call list". But that doesn't do a thing. The first say that it will take 30 days to process my request, and guess what no telemarketing ad runs for more than 30 days. So as soon as they get a new ad they can call you again. By the way, I unfortunately had the answering machine recording before the 1991 law. Otherwise I'd be $500 richer.Dullard: you have to tell them to place you on their do-not-call list (pretty much those exact words). They think it's terribly funny when you tell them to take you off their list, since that's not how it actually works.
Like I said: keep a list of who you tell this to and when you do. If they call you back after you make this request, you can tag them for $500 per call under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
Ask for their name and the company for which they work. If that same telemarketing company calls you again, you can take 'em to court. AFAIK, it's not the campaign that owns the do not call list, it's the telemarketing company.
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Did Fausto1 not say that he gets 4 or 5 calls a night?Originally posted by: exp
LFMAO
And while you're at it tell me how you knew I was bombarded with calls every night, since I wasn't even aware of that fact myself. Is it some kind of telepathy? Or just an arrogance that manifests itself in your flinging unwarranted insults at other posters and making wild assumptions about their personal lives??
11th time:
- Call this number: 1-888-5-OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688), follow automated instructions. This will prevent the 3 Credit Bureaus from selling your name, address, and credit score to marketers for 2 years. Simply put, calling this number can stop junk mail and telemarketing calls almost overnight.
- Contact your DMV and tell them that you wish for them to stop selling your private information. You may have to pay a fee and fill out a form.
- Contact your phone company and utilities and do the same as with the DMV (except they can't charge a fee).
- Contact your bank and all your creditors and ask for copies of their COPPA Privacy Policy. Within that, you will be able to find out how to Opt Out of their marketing programs.
- Guard all your personal information. Quit giving it out to everyone who asks. When you're at Radio Shack, Great Clips, or the grocery store and they ask for your phone number, refuse to give it to them. Unless you are buying a gun, getting a prescription filled, buying a big ticket item (like a car or house), or applying for credit, no merchant, store, or salesperson has any right to know your personal info, including your name. It always boggles my mind to be in line at some store, someone goes up to pay cash, the cashier asks, "... your phone number?" and the person gives it over everytime without thinking. In fact, they get the number so often that when I refuse to do so, the cashiers often get a little nasty with me.
- Whenever any telemarketer calls, tell them, "I do not respond to telemarketing solicitation, please put me on your DO NOT CALL list."
There, how hard is that?
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Originally posted by: Vic
Did Fausto1 not say that he gets 4 or 5 calls a night?Originally posted by: exp LFMAO11th time: - Call this number: 1-888-5-OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688), follow automated instructions. This will prevent the 3 Credit Bureaus from selling your name, address, and credit score to marketers for 2 years.
Call them and follow the instructions, and you can optout permanently (press#3, #1 is for 2 years, #2 is to opt back in)
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