Cell Phones - Do Not Call Registry

[lil_elvis]

Just a friendly reminder ro register your cell phones for the National Do Not Call Registry. In about 2 weeks, all cell numbers are being released to telemarketers, so register your cell phones NOW. If you don't, incoming call charges will apply (if that's your cell phone plan)

Do Not Call Registry Link

 

[Liar]

In about 2 weeks, all cell numbers are being released to telemarketers

<mumble and grumble>...is nothing sacred anymore?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Has anyone here ever bought anything from a telemarketer?

 

[entitled]

Scam alert!

It's a bunch of hooey. Cell phone numbers are not supposed to be released at all. Having worked as a telemarketer, i can tell you with some amount of certainty that it will be too hard to regulate the calls to cell phones and such, so the numbers aren't going to be released.

When this DNC list first came out a couple of friends signed up for it. Ever since then they have been receiving telemarketer calls. READ ALL THE FINE PRINT before signing up - it actually has a release to give out your cell phone number in it.


On another note...

*grab*
*yank*

 

[cloudy]

I don't think this is a scam, ent. It's run by the FTC.

 

[lil_elvis]

I don't think this is a scam, ent. It's run by the FTC.

My pants are the scam.

 

[entitled]

I don't think this is a scam, ent. It's run by the FTC.

The one my friends signed up for was supposedly run by them as well.

i don't know, it could be legit, but i'm not going to chance it.

 

[cloudy]

probably doesn't matter for me. My cellphone company's so efficient that their computer locks up occasionally, sends my number into a black hole, and I have to get a new one.

Besides, the plan I have is a flat fee - no per minute charge, so if they call, I'll just hang up.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Has anyone here ever bought anything from a telemarketer?

No but I once bought a $1400 vaccum from door to door salesman... :x
<---incredibly gullible...

hey, I didn't say I was PROUD of it...

but the vacuum still sucks 10 years later!

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I have caller ID. I don't answer a call if I don't recognize the number.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

This is posted in the FAQ. It does seem the release of cell phone numbers is not true.

You may have received an email telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database; however, that is not the case. FCC regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers don’t call consumers on their cell phones without their consent.

 

[shereads]

Has anyone here ever bought anything from a telemarketer?

No, but I would be willing to buy a device that does some expensive damage to their equipment if they ignore repeated requests not to call.

As much as I despise the intrusiveness of unsolicited marketing calls, I feel for the people who make their living manning the phones. If anything is less fun than receiving unsolicited sales calls, it would have to be making them, especially if your pay is based on a commission. Yikes.

I don't know anybody who admits to having bought anything from a telemarketer, but somebody must or the companies wouldn't bother. Maybe they target elderly people. In my dad's last years, he became pretty gullible. They once had to close a checking account because he mailed a blank check to some outfit requesting political donations.

 

[shereads]

This is posted in the FAQ. It does seem the release of cell phone numbers is not true.


Quote:
You may have received an email telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database; however, that is not the case. FCC regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers don’t call consumers on their cell phones without their consent.

Standard or not, I still get a sufficiently annoying number of non-recorded, person-to-person telemarketing calls, mostly from small companies that haven't graduated to auto-dialing.

Unfortunately, I don't think telemarketers are required to participate in this except by their own industry governing bodies, of which small fly-by-night outfits aren't likely to be members anyway.

I'm registering anyway. I don't see how it can make things any worse, and it might do some good. Caller ID was a big help until I began working at home. Now I can't afford to ignore calls my Caller ID doesn't recognize.

 

[rgraham666]

Remind me again.

Technology is improving our lives how?

 

[gauchecritic]

Remind me again.

Technology is improving our lives how?

by being able to make very good friends the world over.

 

[Guest]

by being able to make very good friends the world over.

What a lovely thought.

 

[Hotcappucino]

Cell phone numbers are not being released to telemarketers.

Details at:

The Urban Legends Reference Pages

Federal Trade Commission: The Truth about Cell Phones and the National Do Not Call Registry