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is this legit?

will it work?

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

get on your state's one as well, it should be available on the state attorney general's site.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

here's all you hafta do, and I can tell you from working as a telemarketer, this works. When someone calls, instead of being rude, or whiny, just act really appalled and say

"Do you know you're calling a hospital?"

You can insert anything - pre-school, church, newspaper, police station, etc. I guarantee you this will get you on the DNC list faster than some old fashioned belly-achin.'

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm worried that shady telemarketers will actually use the DNC list to get my phone number and call me!

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, they face big fines if they violate the no-call list rules. I had a big dropoff in calls once I got on, the only one who still bugged me was my credit card company, and unfortunately they're allowed to call you because you have a pre-existing and continuing business relationship with them.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This worked like a charm at my apartment. It was like one week we got 7 calls a day and as soon as it kicked in zero calls. It didn't work so well at my parent's house, because they are customers of some of the companies that call and that's ok for the companys to call people who have delt with them in the past 6 months or so.

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 28 November 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Both the state and federal lists have worked for me.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 28 November 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it doesn't stop charities from calling. it doesn't stop cheesy prerecorded campaign messages ("hi! this is nydia velasquez!") either.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it works

― adam... (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 November 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

if there is a canadian equiv of this, will somebody post it please?

― jones (actual), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

all you had to do was say "take me off your list please" and the t/mer was required to do so. that's a bit defensive and piecemeal, you see, hence, the list. it's a great, but my primary fone is a cel so i haven't had to worry abt this for 2 years.

i don't understand ppls incensed irritation w telemarketers, coupled with the wierd belief that you have to lie to them or threaten them, rather than hang up, or that sassing some barely-employed woman from Memphis is a strike against the adminstered world or something. i DO understand irritation with telemarketING, as a business practice. but (market, wahey!) some poor bastard must listen & buy, right?

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

er, "it's a great IDEA"

at least nobody goes door to door hocking anything anymore. jesus wept.

i guess what i'm trying to say is that YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL. public data + war-dialing computers = offices full of 'callers' that didn't exactly pick your name out of the book; it's as much a surprise to you as to them (esp if the computer is old and clunky and connects them after you've picked up–that wierd lag.) so don't be rude! it's a shitty enuf job as it is.

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm always polite and i can sympathise with lame jobs but i still want off

― jones (actual), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

no doubt!

i wonder if morale in these phone banks has 'improved' at all subsequently (their employing firms have tracked this thoroughly i'm sure)

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, the "do not call" list doesn't apply to non-profit marketing survey people either. but sometimes you can get off individual lists just by asking.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

morale's great here apparently

― jones (actual), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

omg the drug war fuels telemarketing!!

and dig the journalistic drollery here: "A short commute"

hm altho speaking of the drug war, the two inmates they talk to were convicted of assault and attempted murder...

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-but they're AMERICANS!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

so so bleak. and yeah, the commute gag - eeeeee.

xp haha

― jones (actual), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish there was a do not call registry at the stupid collection agency that keeps siccing an automated dialer on me EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY for the last 20 days or so under the mistaken impression that I'm someone else. I press the "you have reached the wrong party" option and it calls back anyhow. When I press the "let me talk to someone" option it tells me no one can talk to me and it'll call back. I hate answering the phone now. Fuckers.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

are you with Bell Sean? if you complain enough they will double your frustration by helpfully suggesting you change your number!!

― jones (actual), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm thinking about checking out the walkie-talkie scene

― jones (actual), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

at least nobody goes door to door hocking anything anymore. jesus wept.

Except for, you know, those people who want to tell you about how Jesus wept.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 28 November 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

We're supposedly on it --- and we still get calls galore.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 28 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

British people - to prevent unsolicted marketing calls, register at the Telephone Preference Service - you can do it online in about 30 seconds.

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Sunday, 28 November 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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