telemarketing calls, how many per week?

[abc]

My phone gets about 4 calls per week, 90% from creditcard/bank companies (which I have a card with).

How many do you get, and do you answer your phone anymore? i rely on my cell these days.

 

[minendo]

Zero. Thank you "Governor No Call List."

 

[wyvrn]

Very few. I tell them to take me off the calling list, and they don't call back. The other moronic members of my family don't do this and we do get calls back on all of those

 

[MoMeanMugs]

1 or 2, but I am hardly ever home to pick up the phone, so they can either yap to my answering machine (which I have yet to record over the default message ) or just hang up.

 

[Digobick]

2-3 per week. I have Caller ID though so I rarely answer it.

 

[goodoptics]

3-4 per week. I don't have caller ID. I just hung up on those fvckers.

 

[db]

Tell them "Please put me on your 'do not call' list". Those are the words they don't like to hear, but it's Federal law. If they call you back after that, they have broken the law. If they argue, ask them to send you their policy on not calling, that also is the law.

 

[Amused]

Zero - Thank personal responsibility and thinking ahead.

First, get a new unlisted number.

Second, never give your number out -- 90+% of "contests" that you sign up for are just out to get your personal info. They are literally "info farming" and the prize they give out (IF) is well worth the amount of info they farm.

Third, if people are calling your number asking for the person who had it previously, explain that this is no longer their number, but the number for a Catholic monastery, you have all taken a vow of poverty (or make up your own lie) and please take your number off their list.

I haven't had any cold calls in years because of this. I have received a call or two from Sears because I have an account there, but after I told them to stop, they did. Now, I'm never bothered by anyone except my GF's mother.

 

[StageLeft]

maybe 5 a week. i'm not really sure because I don't have caller ID and anytime somebody calls now unless i'm specifically expecting the call I let the answering machine pick up. When the message consists of a dialtone I presume that this is a telemarketer.

I'm too lazy/cheap to go on the no-call list. I get a sick pleasure out of not answering them. Hmm Of course I did buy something from one last week I don't know how I didn't simply hangup right away but the guy started off and he had a way about him that made me feel compelled to at least listen (his way was, in short, to not read crap out of some book sounding like he'd rather be picking his ass). Anyway i actually wanted their product (magazine subscription). Ooops, got off on another tangeant.

 

[Russ]

At work, just about hourly.

At home, a big fat ZERO. Nobody has my home number, and it's unlisted. All my credit cards have my work address and number. I never have anything delivered to home. I never fill anything out with my home address or number. Hell, even my voter registration has my work address. The IRS doesn't even have my home address and number.

Russ, NCNE

 

[ChinamanatNCSU]

none, but that's because I live in a dorm, and apparently they must think (and rightly) I'm too poor to afford any of their products