Take That Telemarketers!

[Prudence]

We not only get telemarketers, despite being on the do not call list, but we get the recorded messages, which (except for elections and such) are illegal in our state. Doesn't matter. The calls keep coming.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Prudence

We not only get telemarketers, despite being on the do not call list, but we get the recorded messages, which (except for elections and such) are illegal in our state. Doesn't matter. The calls keep coming.

Unfortunately, there's a constant battle about who had jurisdiction to regulate calls coming from out of state, so calls that cross state lines remain in a gray area.

And yes, the recorded calls are increasing. And it's because if a company gets your name in some sort of "legitimate way" (i.e., some thing you signed up for once had "we can and will sell your name to anyone and everyone for the next several millennia" burried in their terms), they can call you...unless you tell them to take you off their list. Can't tell it to a machine. Bastards.

[wendybeth]

Anyone remember Homer Simpson's brief career as a telemarketer?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Anyone remember Homer Simpson's brief career as a telemarketer?

I can remember mine - 3months I think I lasted. Thank goodness I got a job at the nuke plant...

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I can remember mine - 3months I think I lasted. Thank goodness I got a job at the nuke plant...

You were a telemarketer for a nuclear power plant?!?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I can remember mine - 3months I think I lasted.

Three DAYS for me....on the fourth I showed up and found out our "operation" had been busted. Not exactly on the up and up.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And yes, the recorded calls are increasing. And it's because if a company gets your name in some sort of "legitimate way" (i.e., some thing you signed up for once had "we can and will sell your name to anyone and everyone for the next several millennia" burried in their terms), they can call you...unless you tell them to take you off their list. Can't tell it to a machine. Bastards.

And my problem is that the companies calling are all business oriented services and have a business relationship with ----- the morons who have been giving out our phone number as their business number (to everyone, including banks, the state employment insurance people, other contractors with whom they work, etc...) for three years now. Their real number is off from ours by a digit, but they continue to give out the wrong number. It's even that way on their business application, so I finally called the state. And I've started calling the vendors and banks to let them know the company is a steaming pile of poo. But that doesn't help the telemarketing calls.