Just to let you guys all know, in order to actually be taken off of their lists, you must speak with a manager! That means that you must REQUEST to speak with a manager. Then you must wait on the line while they signal the manager over. Then you must speak with the manager and ask him to take you off of their lists and put you on their do not call list. Then the manager will put in a code to allow the telemarketer to enter the termination code for putting you on the list. Without that manager's code, you cannot get put on their list due to the person calling you not being authorized to do so. Then some companies will continue to keep you on their do not call list as long as the name still matches the phone number, and both still match the address. That means that you have to make sure they have the right name and address on the number so that they can continue to keep you on their do not call list. Then some of them send out their lists to other telemarketing companies they're partnered with so that the other companies can put them on their do not call lists as well.
Now one thing you have to remember is the large number of telemarketing companies out there that all advertise the same products or take the same surveys. So while you get taken off the list for one company selling the local newspaper, you haven't been taken off the lists of the other six companies hired by that newspaper to call you.
I know this because I infiltrated them, got the information on how to defeat them, and then got the hell out of there. I took a telemarketing part time posision around my full time job three summers ago. I was there for a week so that I could get the extra cash I needed for a cpu for college and then quit. It was a shitty job, but there were a lot of cute and hot girls working there... You might want to remember I said that the next time you hear a female voice on the other end of that survey call... or not...
