&%#@^* Autodialers!

So, I'm about fed up with the telephone solicitations from autodialers.

People with residential telephone service can call the National Do Not Call Registry and have their number(s) removed.

However, businesses may not do that--so we have to waste our time and money (they tie up the lines, I have to pay someone to answer the telephones, etc.) listening to recorded messages.

I guess once in a while doesn't bother me, but we get some seven autodialer calls a day. This does not include the live telephone solicitors.

The worst thing is that many of these systems can't be hung up on. That is, I can't hang up the line to free up my phone, so I'm stuck for up to two minutes.

Then, the b-----s at NSBA call about EVERY OTHER DAY, on more than one line! This has been going on for about a year.

I finally listened all the way through their excruciating message in order to get a phone number (many autodialers don't even leave a phone number) to call them back.

So I call, wait on hold, get someone on the line whose personality turns for the worse once she finds out I'm not callling to place an order, then request to be removed.

I try to give her all of my phone numbers (we have several lines, and there's no way to know which lines they are calling in on) but she won't listen to me. She says that if I just give her the one number, all numbers at the same physical address will not be called either. Yeah, right.

I tried several times to ask her to please take the other numbers too, but she simply refused, said "have a nice day," then hung up on me.

That was last Thursday. Sure enough, got another fricking call from them again today.

Do you know of any legal action I can claim against them (even if I just have FCC code to throw in their face, it may help)?

Thanks,

General Tsao