Foo - National "Do not call list"

Anybody enroll on the national don't call list? If so, have you noticed a reduction in unwanted calls?

Anybody enroll on the national don't call list? If so, have you noticed a reduction in unwanted calls?Yes and yes. I have, however noticed an increase in junk mail.

I have not noticed a huge difference in the calls since signing up. Some but not a lot.

Then you need to get their info and call the FTC on them.

Anybody enroll on the national don't call list? If so, have you noticed a reduction in unwanted calls?
I signed up for it before the 90 day wait period went into effect and haven't got any calls yet! YEEEE HAAAAA..... Last night I got a call thinking it was a solicitor and it turned out to be the red cross letting me know the blood mobile was going to be at Wal*mart Saturday. They didn't count as a solicitor!! LOL

No telemarketers, thank you God. Now if I could only stop the fax machine that calls at 1AM!

Yes I signed up and there has been a significant reduction in calls. I think I've had two from non-profits, and one from a company (Comcast Cable) that I am a customer of which lets them off the hook if I understand that correctly.

for the me the calls have stopped all together. Yay!! Death to the scumbag telemarketers. Let them all starve!!

for the me the calls have stopped all together. Yay!! Death to the scumbag telemarketers. Let them all starve!!

Telemarketers are people too. ;)

I signed up. I'm now only recieving calls from companies I'm already doing business with...so far.
I have noticed an increase in spam lately, e-mail AND snail mail spam. Hmmmm.

Be thankful for snail mail spam. It subsidizes the cost of stamps.

Yes and Yes!!! Oh the joy of being able to sit at the dinner table and not be disturbed by the daily tele-marketer. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

I'm on the list. I have had one unwanted call. It was a solicitor for a charity. I suppose charities are exempt. I've always chosen to make my charitable contributions in other ways, mostly because I don't like the idea that my money is used to pay a telemarketer hired by a charity.

Non-profits, charities, companies you do business with, companies you ask questions of, and tele-marketers in your own state are exempt.

Think of all the legitimate telemarketers. The employ tens of thousands of people and pay them handsomely for their successes. It is basically a commission sales job where the best salesmen get the most in wages. If we kill that portion of the economy, those folks will have to find other work.

If you don't want them to call you, tell them. The legitimate ones will stop. The ones who persist, I generally let loose a string of poly-syllabic words I learned in the Navy. That usually stops them.

Well, seems everyone is enjoying the peace and quiet we needed during our meals. Too bad the same hasn't been done with spam email.

BTW, I've never purchased anything from a telemarketer so they're not making a living off commission off me. I can't believe anyone would buy anything either, after all why would anyone make a commitment to buy some product from a company that you've never heard of or know anything about? You would be setting yourself up for disaster.

BTW, I've never purchased anything from a telemarketer so they're not making a living off commission off me. I can't believe anyone would buy anything either, after all why would anyone make a commitment to buy some product from a company that you've never heard of or know anything about? You would be setting yourself up for disaster.

Do you really think that if no one ever bought anything from telemarketers they would still be in business? Telemarketing is a multi-gazillion dollar industry.

Bobsled, where is telemarketing going these days?

Jacob

I'd imagine there must be a huge target market in the elderly. I don't mean to generalize but I know that the elderly are often preyed upon through mail fraud. They must be prone to buying in to telemarketing scams as well.

I'm suspicious of a do-not-call list. A list like that would be a goldmine if it got into the wrong hands considering a lot of telemarketers aren't even in the states. I had a friend who was a telemarketer for a short time in Edmonton, Alberta who was selling the LA Time to people in Los Angeles.

I'd imagine there must be a huge target market in the elderly. I don't mean to generalize but I know that the elderly are often preyed upon through mail fraud. They must be prone to buying in to telemarketing scams as well.

Not true. According to research I have read in the past, customers of telemarketers run the gamut from poor folks living in trailers in Arkansas to wealthy folks in New York City and from teen agers to the elderly.

True, unscrupuplous criminals prey on the elderly, but they are the exception rather than the rule.

FYI, I am not a telemarketer nor have I ever been one nor do I know anyone who is or ever was a telemarketer. I just hate to see an entire industry demonized.

I just hate to see an entire industry demonized.

But they SOOOOOO deserve it.

Bobsled, where is telemarketing going these days?

Jacob

Don't know, don't care! As long as they don't call me.

But they SOOOOOO deserve it.

Does any enterprise that employes thousands and thousands of people, that keeps tens of thousands more employed in manufacturing, addition billions of dollars to the U.S. economy?

What I did was each time a telemarketer called was tell them to put me on their do not call list. If they said they didn't have such a thing, I asked for a supervisor. I informed him that unless I was placed on that list, I would do everthing I could to harm his business, from boycotts to lawsuits for invasion of privacy - which I know I would lose, but it would tie them up in court and a bunch of money. Othertimes, I'd swear at them and hang on them. They'd put me on their do not call list after that.

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Bobsled, where is telemarketing going these days?

Jacob
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Don't know, don't care! As long as they don't call me.


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Another satisfied Litespeed owner.


THen why ask if anyone else has gotten telemarketing calls????????
Maybe what you "should" be legislating for is an effective Bobsled-reduction incoming phone call service, which is best accomplished in your case by not having a phone.

Jacob

Jacob,

If you go back and re-read the original post I asked "have you noticed a reduction in unwanted calls?"

I, like most people don't want to be bothered by people trying to sell me something I don't need nor want. Everything from golf equipment (I don't even golf, shows you how well they research their potential customers) to refinancing car or home. If I happen to ever need anything I Know how to use the yellowpages to find local businesses in my area.