Members Sundance Posted April 12, 2008 Members Share Posted April 12, 2008 If you have not already registered your phone number on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, here is a link so you can register your number. https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx This should stop many of the annoying telemarketer calls! I have Caller ID and Privacy Manager. If the number in unknown, the phone won't ring. If its one of those 800 or 866 numbers, I don't answer. They can leave a message. If for some reason I happen to answer the phone and its a telemarketer, I simply say nothing and hang up. I don't think that is being rude. I just saved the caller some time. Other times I would just set the phone down by a radio and go away leaving the caller. Those telemarketers are the rude ones. I pay for my phone. They don't have a right to use it. I once told some telemarketer that he should get a real job. He didn't like that very well. I used to have a message on my answering machine that said, "please leave a message just to prove you are not a telemarketer." Even if you're on the Do Not Call registry, the occasional call gets thru. Here's a site to register a complaint: http://www.callercomplaints.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drew Posted April 18, 2008 Members Share Posted April 18, 2008 Seriously, get over yourself. I guarantee the call centre employees you've suffered through make more money than you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevotedToAMC Posted April 18, 2008 Members Share Posted April 18, 2008 Oh that is nothing with what I use for telemarketers. I use a fart machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 19, 2008 Members Share Posted April 19, 2008 Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevotedToAMC Posted April 19, 2008 Members Share Posted April 19, 2008 so Ron how do you respond to telemarketers? Before the fart machine, I would ask them their name and what they were wearing...they always freaked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drew Posted April 20, 2008 Members Share Posted April 20, 2008 I respond by being a rational human being and saying "No thanks, not interested" because I know these are people just doing their job and are not the evil company they work which they despise just like you do. But I guess thats just me ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Noel Posted April 20, 2008 Members Share Posted April 20, 2008 Well..I've gotten calls from telemarketers and they give me the attitude (which makes me mad because it's not of my fault) when I respond that they have the wrong number like I'm lying about it or something. So, I guess with this subject, it's a two-way street here. And I don't look at it from the financial aspect of things of who makes more money. That's irrelevant and I could care less on that part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted April 20, 2008 Members Share Posted April 20, 2008 Well – aren't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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