Die, telemarketers, die!!!!!!
 

Use this link to register for the US's new "do not call" list.

I wonder just how overloaded this is gonna get today. The telemarketers say this will devastate their business. They seem to miss the point since that's the idea.
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When a telemarketer calls and asks for someone by name, tell them to hold on, put the phone down as if to get that person, and leave it. Works for me.

Thank you for the link.

signing up now... thanks for the link.

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it's probably a clever telemarketers website and you are all blindly signing up to be called at 7AM everyday.

I'd rather our government spend time on the economy and stuff rather than telemarketing legislation... but since it's there, why not use it!

Note that the site is a little... overwhelmed, seemingly. It's taken me quite a while to get to the "is this data correct" screen with a "register" button on it, and I'm having trouble getting past it.

(edit) Okay, I got to the third screen, which says "step 3: receive e-mail".

Unfortunately, this list allows contact with you if you have had or have a relationship with the company calling.

The most annoying calls I get are from Sears and AT&T - both of whom can continue to call.

But I sure signed up, thanks.

Earlier reports today said that the list was receiving about 108 registrants per second via phone.

Imagine if they'd allowed the east coast to use the phone method.

Sigh their servers are getting overloaded..

If I blocked the telemarketers, how could I torment them? Just last week I was asked to participate in a survey about breakfast products. I told them I was a father of 6, and all my children had 'beerios' (cheerios & beer) during the week, and I made myself homemade breakfast bars out of apple cores and cigarette butts. The telemarketer didn't really appreciate it and hung up on me! If my job was to annoy people, I'd welcome someone trying to fuck with me, I'd try to make it last til the end of my shift.

I hate telemarketers. Generally speaking, there is a delay between answering the phone and the computer tansfering me to the telemarketer. I say hello and if I don't hear a response in the next second... I hang up.

If it's a friend with food in his mouth, unable to reply, he'll call back. Telemarketers don't.

i just read about this...it said that over 60,000 people had signed up already today. they expecting over 60 million to sign up.

No doubt. The other day I had someone call me about carpet cleaning heh I freaked and said "Nice joke Kevin you ass you know I just had a flood!" The guy on the oher line said nothing for a full minute then hung up. :lol:

lol its gonna take days to actually get into the site! some one should deface it, that would be b funny

I'd try back in a couple of days. It keeps crashing when I try to register..

true, but internally you can request that they stop calling you or you will no longer purchase products or services from them. It's worked plenty for the cable and phone company,

Is this different from states do-not-call list? In Montana our Governer passed a do-not-call list as well. The thing is though the telemarkers can get that list if they paid $500 a year.

ya this is going to take forever

done
thank you very much.:)

just registered thanks

well, no such thing here (at least not that I'm aware of)... I'd sign up in a flash though!! It's a tough thing though, I know people who have done time in telemarketing jobs, call centres etc and it ain't easy. Once or twice I've actually participated in surveys and I do try to get rid of them politely if possible.

Still doesn't explain how they know exactly when you've just sat down at dinner and call right then! :D

i read that the state do-not-call lists will be added to the national one eventually, but it said that it'd be best to go ahead and do it yourself. And i'm pretty sure that there is no way telemarketers can call anybody on the list for a few reasons:

they are required to send caller id information and clearly state who they are and what they're selling

if they call someone on the registry, the FTC fines them $11,000 per call

so it would be easy to turn a telemarketer in...also you can go to where you registered to file complaints later on.

side note: they aren't enforcing the list until oct. 1 so it probably wouldn't be smart filing complaints tomorrow...although it would be funny

I'm glad they passed this law. I very rarely give out my home number, but it appears it has been sold to every telemarketer in the world. At one point I was getting 2-12 calls per day with a one day record of 20 calls.

Too bad they dont have that in Canada ;; sigh...

The one thing I hate about telemarketers are the "spanish" ones. I have a hispanic last name and AT&T thinks I'll sign up if they have non english speaking spanish folk call my house.

umm...no. I tell the the normal ones to piss off so why would the ethnically targetted ones be any more successful?

what really annoys me is when people call my mother's house to ask for my sister, and when I say she isn't here they ask for her husband (she's not married). I tell them she said she wasn't married! I'm gonna kill that bitch!! and hang up. :lol:

cool, I registered! woo hoo! I was reading about it though and they say this thing doen't restrict lond distance phone companies from calling, Those are the ones that call me at least three times a week though.
I love the way all you guys get a away from these telemarketers. I'm one of the people that hangs up if someone doesn't answer within the first two seconds.

THANKS DENIM!!!

I've been waiting...

i hate it when telemarketers try to use their brain
they ring up and ask for my girlfriend Mrs X
i say she is not here then they say "oh is this Mr X" to which i reply "No, im Mr Z. we are not married. NOW FUCK OFF"


my girlfreind likes to fuck with them though LOL
she says stuff like "sorry i have to keep an eye on the triplets or they run rampant i cant speak right now"
or if they are selling something she say's something like "well i have 5 kids to feed so i cant really afford it especially since Bob got laid off down at the mill"

:lol:

I am not putting a lot of faith in this list. Obviously someone makes money off of telemarketing, otherwise they wouldn't do it. In Illinois, they tried to pass a law banning those high interest payday loans. Everything was going well until all the payday loan places, who are making lots of money off those loans, banded together into a lobby and lined some congressmen's pockets and re-election campaigns. The bill died immediately. It seems to me that the telemarketers would do the same thing if this list was an actual threat to their livelihood. The exceptions already listed (and I've also heard that polls and charities are excluded) seem to make this list kind of inadequate. I'm sure that most telemarketers would be willing to donate 1% of their profits to a charity in order to backdoor this list. I can also hear the polls already "In regards to your long distance service, would you say you are A)Very happy or B)Ready to switch to MCI's new 5 cents a minute plan?
Anyway, I like to just chat with and argue with telemarketers, keeping them on the phone for as long as possible without buying anything, thus making their day as unprofitable as possible.

i registered my number, my cell number, all my family's number's and got the email today saying it was confirmed....:)

thanks a lot going to check my email now

We have had a similar law in NY for a couple of years now, and it has been wonderful. We went from multiple calls a day down to practically none.

I still think the best approach to the telemarketers is the Seinfeld approach. Ask the telemarketer for their full name and phone number so you can call them back at home to discuss their amazing offer. When they decline say<"Oh so you don't want to be bothered at home.....?"

Point made

I did some telemarketing, made a few good bucks. It always made my day when someone would flip out, a bit of sadism doesn't hurt in that line of work.

Might slow them down for a while, but honestly they'll just all move to Canada, the Carribean, etc. where this law probably can't touch them. :hmm:

That'll cost them more, I think.

I agree with Toker. They'll just focus on other areas. Email, fax maybe? A friend of mine received a fax advertising crap just the other day from a telemarketing agency. I wonder if that falls under the new law....

I'm going to wait until the law becomes effective before signing up. I just have a bad feeling about putting my name and number in a national database that is available to too many businesses.

I just had to change my number because of a persistent and harrassing debt collector who had me confused with another person with the same name. They were absolutely relentless, and after three weeks of constant phone calls, I had the number changed to an unpublished one.

I really do hope this helps to curtail the nusiance calls, though.

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.

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.

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.

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 :-)

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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