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I get on the national DO NOT CALL list.....works pretty good...
That's a good start. With caller id these days, I simply don't answer the phone unless I know who it is. Sometimes that means screening an incoming call from a number I don't recognize, but 95% of the time, it's someone I didn't want to talk to. Don't answer the phone, problem solved.
I'm on the national do not call list. My only phone is a cell phone, but it is my old landline phone number, so I've had to gradually filter out all the charities and political groups. Most of the time, if it says "Blocked number" I just don't answer, but sometimes I do, just to see if I can get a live person. I tell them that I am on the do not call list, and that my phone is a cell phone with only 300 minutes per month (true) and to put me on their internal do not call list. Works about 95% of the time. I only get a few calls now.
Ironically, one that it hasn't worked on is the police department. They still call me every year, and I always answer, because my caller ID says "POLICE". Every year, I tell them if they want to send me something in the mail, I will look at it, but please put me on their do not call list, and every year, they call me again.
The other one it hasn't worked on is the political groups. I've had several that are automated, and have no opt-out choice on them, which I believe is illegal.
The ones that annoy me most are the telemarketers that call at work. I have to interrupt what I am working on to answer the phone. I answer it in a way that is obviously a business, and they ask for the lady of the house. I tell them this is a business, and they apologize, hang up, and 10 minutes later, they call again. I've opted out of dozens of automated messages, but the next week I get a new message from the same company in a different voice. But the worst are the faxed solicitations. They ignore the opt out option completely. They waste my paper, and my toner, tie up my fax line, and I get at least 10 a week, sometimes more. Mostly for vacation deals. I have tried opting out and it doesn't work. They should be heavily fined.
Now I feel somewhat sorry for them. I suspect they're only working those kind of jobs because they're desperate for income. So I just tell them I'm sorry but I cant afford to buy anything at all. I also tell them I'm on the Do Not Call list (which is true) and ask them to make sure to note that, as I will report them -- but I say it nicely.
And I usually dont even answer the phone when the call is from an unknown caller. But often those guys keep calling until you tell them not to.
Sometimes I engage them in a conversation trying to persuade them to stop being wohres to deceptive commerce, and get a respectable job. It is a shame that these poor people are forced to accept employment in which they humiliate themselves, sacrifice their dignity, and compromise any standards they might have to personal decency. Their jobs are immoral, and just barely legal, and often, their employers would be prosecuted if there was any diligent enforcement to try to locate and identify them. They are poor people who enable the rich to even further downgrade the status and dignity of the poor.
States that have aggressively "retrained" people to get them off welfare are the primary engines driving the disgraceful telemarketing industry. Even workers in call centers, answering calls from customers, are typically required to make statements that misrepresent the facts and mislead the clients. Deceptive practices rush headlong with impunity.
I don't even know why companies telemarket, the practice should be banned lol. If you have to telemarket your products, chances are they suck and no one will be interested anyway. The way I see it is if I want your product, I'll contact YOU & not the other way around. Successful companies with excellent products have no need for telemarketing. Think about it, does Apple have to telemarket iphones? I don't think so.
Sometimes I engage them in a conversation trying to persuade them to stop being wohres to deceptive commerce, and get a respectable job. It is a shame that these poor people are forced to accept employment in which they humiliate themselves, sacrifice their dignity, and compromise any standards they might have to personal decency. Their jobs are immoral, and just barely legal, and often, their employers would be prosecuted if there was any diligent enforcement to try to locate and identify them. They are poor people who enable the rich to even further downgrade the status and dignity of the poor.
States that have aggressively "retrained" people to get them off welfare are the primary engines driving the disgraceful telemarketing industry. Even workers in call centers, answering calls from customers, are typically required to make statements that misrepresent the facts and mislead the clients. Deceptive practices rush headlong with impunity.
Sometimes in today's economy these jobs are all people can find. I am a telemarketer and hate it but am unable to find anything else. I have a degree to so you can imagine how humiliating it is. Things are very ugly right now with the economy.
Being on the Do Not Call list has blocked most of mine.
I was getting calls from the Indian drug pushers, but those have stopped, thank goodness.
You can just use the caller ID and not answer calls from numbers you do not recognize.
The charities I just ask to remove my number from their calling list.
If you get calls and no one responds when you answer, those are apparently fishing calls solely to determine when someone is likely to be at home. Apparently hitting the "#" key quickly and repeatedly confuses the system. I've tried it, and the calls from India stopped. I cannot prove that was a cause and effect, however.
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