smarm

How long did it take the folks who signed up online to get their confirmation email? I signed up on the first day (along with 735k others) and it took more than 2 days to get the email.

frankx

I did something a couple of years ago and have not regretted it since.

I shut off my home telephone service.

I now only use my cell for communication and it's worked out great. I haven't had a telemarketer call in about two years. They are not legally permitted to use the cellular bands for marketing (yet, that is).

Granted, I live in a large city with excellent coverage, but if you have the means, I highly recommend this course of action.

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thejollycompany

all i can say is that i have a phone with the telezapper
it zaps the database of a telemarketer and tells em they have a disconnected number. yes, there's a beep every time i pick up the phone, but it's worth it. no more telemarketers, just stupid "non-profit" orgs. i say "non-profit" because they are lying. they only give like 30 percent

the rest goes to their pocket... to pay stuff, and to use to snort cocaine.

use kazaa or some crappy music finder.. and find either "Tom Mabe" or "Jim Florintine" (spelling for florintine?). They have some funny stuff. They harass telemarketers. makes me kind of wish i still had some to harass.

mdjl8912

I'm not sure if I am paying more attention to telemarketing calls now or what ... but it seems like my amount of telemarket calls has doubled over the last few weeks. Trying to get more calls in before they go out of business I guess :-)

smithja0423

I've been on the Indiana no-call list since it came out. Supposedly it's much tougher than the Federal implementation. I'll probably sign up for this one as well to be safe. I can't stand the constant barrage of calls.

LittleOralAnnie

I don't trust those online type deals where you enter your e-mail address. Almost always they pass on your e-mail to other sites and then you get bombed with spam.

To rid myself of telemarketers is usually by screening my calls or when I do happen to pick up I tell them to hold on a sec, put the phone down and carry on about my business. Especially when I'm busy doing something else.

denim

TSerra: the new law isn't needed for that since there's an older law targetting junk FAXes.

Fire

used to be a telemarketer- for charaties, special olympics, ect- it is a racket- as mentioned above, very little money goes to the actual charities- after a year of it I was jaded as hell- couldnt blame the people that slammed down the phone- and could'nt keep a straight face around my bosses either- one girl working there had been a phone sex operator- most incredibly sexy voice i've ever heard- and she made money hand over fist- bosses said she couldnt use "the voice" cause it wasnt "fair buisiness practice"- now that was funny, comming from them...

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Buk

okay, HOLD ON, i have a story:

Once a few years I got this phone call from this telemarketer. They wanted to give me a bunch of FREE magazines! I was like WHOA FREE! so I was all excited and the woman on the phone sounded really hot.

So, we get to talkin and she says in order to get all these great free magazines I have to subscribe to newsweekly or something or other, and she says its X amount per issue. So, I'm really stoked about all my free magazines and I give her my credit card number and hang up.

About a week later i get this bill in the mail from the magazine company. I almost shit myself, the ONE weekly news thing i have to PAY for comes to almost 300 dollars for an entire YEAR!

I am looking at the letter and at the bottom in REALLY small print it says, if you decide not to accept this offer please return this leter with cancel on it and we will not bill your card again.

So, i go HELL FUCK NO and write cancel on it.

Two weeks later I get a phone call from some very stern sounding guy, he is from this company and wants to know why i want to cancel my subscriptions, since they are such a great deal. I told him "i dont want to pay a fuckload of money for your lame magazines buddy!" (well, not exactly like that hehe) So, he goes well didnt they tell you the cost?

I go not freaking XXX amount of money, that is a freakin lot! So, he makes me wait while he checks some tape. And he comes back and goes, "well it seems to me that she did a good job explaining the cost" and I go "dude I'm not going to pay that, want me to call my credit card company?"

and he goes "well we already paid all this money to the magazine people (I CALL SHENANIGANS RIGHT HERE) and i think its only fair you pay something, so we are going to keep what we already billed you"

So, I hang up and I think to myself, damnit i hate telemarketsers.

THE END!



Edit: I'd like to point out that this is written to be humorous and the fact that it lacks cohesion and proper grammar is intentional.

gar1976

Oregon has had a do not call list for a while, and it makes our dinners nice and peaceful.

Signed up for the fed one anyway, too. LIke wearing two condoms, I guess.

wally

Thanks for the link. I knew this page was out there somewhere, just didn't know where. Signing up now...

aedenji

I love yelling at them so I can feel better about myself