Hate Telemarketers? Look What the FTC is Proposing!

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Hate Telemarketers? Want to kill the guys who invariably disturb you at suppertime? There may be a light at the end of the tunnel. The FTC is proposing a national "Do not call" database. This means that if you are on the database, you will cease to receive most annoying telemarketing calls.

Link to FTC Proposal on National Telemarketing "Do Not Call" List

In the meantime, check the Direct Marketing Association Link near the bottom of the article. I have gotten my name off telemarketing and junk mail lists. It works!

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Phoenix, New York state already has a Do Not Call list and it really works (most of the time). We've been on it for about 6 or 8 months and the number of unsolicited calls has gone down tremendously. We still get a few, but I just angrily tell them I'm on NYS' list and if they call again I'll report them and I never hear from them again.

Only problem is that it doesn't cover businesses with which you have had a prior 'relationship' so the cable company and the local newspaper can still pest us to death!

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There is that, Bandylu. The greatest number of the calls I get are from the carriers of credit cards I already have.

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My husband's response to the cable company is "Do you happen to have the number of the Dish Network?" Trouble is, the telemarketers don't get it. My guess is the credit card folks use the same telemarketers.

Apparently, ours also doesn't apply to politicians since we got a couple of calls from them this year. One was for my daughter and it was for the jerk who was running as a third party candidate for governor. I told them she was away in grad school and even if she were home there is no way on earth that she'd vote for him. Made me feel good anyway.

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I hate telemarketers and I try to get off the phone as quickly as possible. I have asked repeat callers to put me on their Do Not Call list, and once a company kept right on calling me so I told them that I would file a complaint with the state if they continued to call me when I specifically asked them to stop. They have not called since.

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I have also been on the New York "don't call" list almost from the inception of the program, and it does work excellently. The limitation, as previously mentioned, is that it does not apply to political calls, nor does it apply to non commercial solicitations.

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A wonderful example of the government rushing in where they are not wanted or needed.

There IS a list, it works, and the addition of another one will just confuse and further harass the public.

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WATCH IT!!
Ok u guys! I am a telemarketer, im 14 and i work @ my cuz's coin business. We are just doing our job, just like all of u. We dont mean 2 b pests but we need 2 make a living rite? And how else can a 14 year old girl talk on the phone @ work?? Lol

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Glad to hear you have a good job. I look forward to hanging up on you soon.

Actually, I did telemarketing for a little while a long time ago. They called me goldfinger, because when I dialed, I was as good as gold with those people. I would love it when people would actually engage me in some give and take and get mad. I would just keep being as big an a-hole as possible until they hung up. What a dick I was.

And now I hate my job. Maybe there is something to that Karma stuff after all.

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misinterpretation and then ignorance
i'm not a telemarketer. i'm a debt collector! and because of the system the number doesnt pop up on the caller id. 75% of the times they think i'm trying to sell something. there have been a few times when i have told people that its about their delinquent account and they still react to it with "take us off your f****ing list". to which i say "sure why not !! check your credit report tomorrow and see you in court". i love it when that happens.

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Re: misinterpretation and then ignorance

krckpt wrote:

i'm not a telemarketer. i'm a debt collector! and because of the system the number doesnt pop up on the caller id. 75% of the times they think i'm trying to sell something. there have been a few times when i have told people that its about their delinquent account and they still react to it with "take us off your f****ing list". to which i say "sure why not !! check your credit report tomorrow and see you in court". i love it when that happens.

That's very cruel.
I like it. Twisted Evil

I have developed a foolproof way to not talk to telemarketers. It took me years of research, but I've finally come up with a solution that works for me: hang up on them. Don't speak beyond "Hello", don't even let them finish their first sentence. Hang up.

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But it's not bill collectors!!!
I despise people who ring my phone everyday. I am on the D0-not-call-list, but because of stupid exemptions, I still get bothered several times a day:

602-218-8502

602-476-1614

800=662-4548

800-293-0406

Among others. I've tried telling them to quit calling, but a lot of times I get dead air.

So, basically, I have to take the phone off the hook for peace. And why should I have to do that??I pay the bill every month, not for scumbags to use my service to make money.

The no call list should be for ALL calls, (that has to do with sales or charity, or business, unless a person gives them permission to call)

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Re: WATCH IT!!

bestpricegold wrote:

Ok u guys! I am a telemarketer, im 14 and i work @ my cuz's coin business. We are just doing our job, just like all of u. We dont mean 2 b pests but we need 2 make a living rite? And how else can a 14 year old girl talk on the phone @ work?? Lol

This is no more acceptable than Jehovah's witnesses coming to my door uninvited.

If I want to buy something, I'll call YOU!!! If you call me, you will get my ansering machine, because I screen all my calls.

Please, get off your rear and get a real job.

I will never do business with a telemarketer, or anyone that contacts me first.

If you shove something in my face, you will only annoy me.

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Re: WATCH IT!!

markofkane wrote:

I will never do business with a telemarketer, or anyone that contacts me first.

If you shove something in my face, you will only annoy me.

I have to agree. I am very distrustful of anyone who calls me (telemarketing). My first instinct is to believe it is a scam to get my personal information. I have no way to know even when it is a legitimate business so I can't take the risk of even confirming my address to anyone on the phone. The "your call may be recorded for accuracy" puts me off completely.

If I want to buy something, subscribe to something, give money to charity - I will initiate contact myself, never the other way around. In fact, it completely puts me off a product/charity if they call me.

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Re: misinterpretation and then ignorance

krckpt wrote:

i'm not a telemarketer. i'm a debt collector! and because of the system the number doesnt pop up on the caller id. 75% of the times they think i'm trying to sell something. there have been a few times when i have told people that its about their delinquent account and they still react to it with "take us off your f****ing list". to which i say "sure why not !! check your credit report tomorrow and see you in court". i love it when that happens.

Growl. Ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff. (snarl) Yap yap.

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in the UK we have TPS - telephone preference service and if you sign up to it then it's illegal to call you - it's brilliant. I only get a sales call once in a couple of months now and when I say that I'm on TPS they scram ... fast!

We also have the same scheme for mail and faxes. I hardly get any junk mail now Very Happy

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A telemarketer calls the Ticomaya household:

Me (Tico): Hello?

TM (telemarketer): Yes, could I please speak with Mr. Maya?

Me: That's me.

TM: Good evening Mr. Maya, my name's _______ and I'm calling on behalf of the _____________, and I'd like to take a few minutes of your time to talk to you about ______________________.

Me: I'd love to talk to you about ____________________, but first, I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes about a new product I've been developing, which I think is wonderful, and I think you'll agree you cannot do without it, but even if you don't we can still talk about it later, but right now I'd like to discuss whether you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior .... do you have a few minutes?

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Telemarketers
I HATE THEM ALL! NOT ONLY ARE THEY RUDE AND PUSHEY, THEY NEVER STOP CALLING! SO, I BELIEVE THAT "TAKE ME OFF YOUR @*&^%$! LIST" IS TO BE EXPECTED WHEN UNKNOWN CALLS APPEARE!!! Evil or Very Mad

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I always let the phone go to the answering machine

The message says 'Hi, I screen calls for telemarketers, if you really want to talk to me start speaking now and I'll pick up'

Telemarketers never talk, they just hang up. Screws up them machines that check numbers too.

I also know that people who rarely get telemarketing calls until they put their names on 'Do not call' list - then they start getting five a day.

I got really sick of Indian guys trying to sell me phones with unintelligible accents and ludicrous names like 'Bruce' and 'Barry'....

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