Getting ready for war

[SeaCat]

Okay, I'm getting ready to go to war down here. I'm irritated.

I put our home phone as well as our Cell Phones on the "Do Not Call List" in November. (It takes 3 days for this to take effect.) I checked tonight and our numbers are still on the list.

We have been getting calls from several companiesasking for another person. When I inform them that this person does not live here they ask if the number thay had dialed was the number I had. (It always is.) Then they tell me that they can see that I am the owner of the residence and immediatly start in on their sales pitch.

We get at least one of these calls a day.

Today I informed the person calling that this number is on the National Do Not Call Registry. He told me that did not matter as he was A) Calling from India where they do not recognise the registry and that B) He was calling for this other person who was not on the registry.

A couple of things.

The person they are calling for has never had this phone number, (I checked,) and has never lived at this address.

The numbers on the registry are not registered under names, they are registered under the numbers themselves.

For the next couple weeks I will be polite when answering these calls. I will make sure to log when the call comes in. The name of the person calling me and the company they are calling for. (Unfortunately their numbers do not come up on the Caller ID.) When I have plenty of these then I will contact the Government and put in a complaint. (Not that it will do any good I'm sure.)

Tomorrow I will also be contacting the Phone Company and have them look into who this person is and if he is putting down my number for some reason. If he is then I have the feeling I can at least get a Cease and Desist Order against him.

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

Another good reason for not getting a cell phone.

I have enough fun with telemarketers as it is.

 

[SeaCat]

Another good reason for not getting a cell phone.

I have enough fun with telemarketers as it is.

Surprisingly my wife and I have only had one sales call on our cells. (Now that I've said that I'm sure we'll get bombed with them.) I do however know people who get them all the time.

The strange thing is our faxes in work often get odd adverts sent to them. I have a large three ring binder filled with them for people to browse through and either get a chuckle or maybe find something they're interested in. (Although somehow don't see my co-workers being interested in Penis Enlargement Products. They are all female.)

The best on to date though has been the menu for a chinese resteraunt in L.A. advertising free delivery. We sent them a rather large order for delivery along with our address. For some reason we never got it.

Cat

 

[TheeGoatPig]

The best on to date though has been the menu for a chinese resteraunt in L.A. advertising free delivery. We sent them a rather large order for delivery along with our address. For some reason we never got it.

Cat

That's pretty funny

I never get good faxes. They are all Bahamas/Florida Vacations, or stock tips.

 

[arienette]

I did telemarketing for 10 months and as far as I know if they contact you again and you ask to speak with a person higher in management of the facility their calling from they have to let you speak to them and then the manager or whatever has to do something to stop the phone calls. A little bit of advice for you and for everyone else: If you yell at a telemarketer, they'll just enter you back into the computer to get called more or at more inappropriate times, such as the very early morning. I used to do it all the time; as soon as my headache started kicking in during my shift, if someone pissed me off they'd be getting called back at around 9am.

As for the cell phones, it's illegal to do a telemarketing sales pitch over a cell phone, since it is understood that most people have them for emergency purposes only.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

since it is understood that most people have them for emergency purposes only.

Yeah... Sure...

 

[SeaCat]

I did telemarketing for 10 months and as far as I know if they contact you again and you ask to speak with a person higher in management of the facility their calling from they have to let you speak to them and then the manager or whatever has to do something to stop the phone calls. A little bit of advice for you and for everyone else: If you yell at a telemarketer, they'll just enter you back into the computer to get called more or at more inappropriate times, such as the very early morning. I used to do it all the time; as soon as my headache started kicking in during my shift, if someone pissed me off they'd be getting called back at around 9am.

As for the cell phones, it's illegal to do a telemarketing sales pitch over a cell phone, since it is understood that most people have them for emergency purposes only.

I never yell at Telemarketers, as much as I am tempted to at times. I understand they are doing a job.

But still, this is getting beyond annoying. I get the same damned phone calls from the same company.

What makes it worse is they are all asking if I wish to refinance my mortgage. I Do Not Have a Mortgage. I own my place outright.

Cat

 

[neonlyte]

I never yell at Telemarketers, as much as I am tempted to at times. I understand they are doing a job.

But still, this is getting beyond annoying. I get the same damned phone calls from the same company.

What makes it worse is they are all asking if I wish to refinance my mortgage. I Do Not Have a Mortgage. I own my place outright.

Cat

Try not disconnecting the call. If you don't disconnect your end, they cannot disconnect their end, at least, that is the way it works in UK, though it may bring Telemarketeers Wrath on you

We have a call barring service in UK - works well and a junk mail barring postal service, which works less well since the Postal Service has now contracted to deliver unaddressed junk mail to peoples doors. We usually write 'not known at this address' on the unaddressed envelope and slip it back in the post box so they can process it again and try to figure out who to return it to.

 

[oggbashan]

I have signed up to no sales calls and no sales faxes.

That is possible in the UK but I get sales calls, some automated, from other countries. No UK legislation can stop that.

When I had my shop, the thermal paper fax machine was always available. Some mornings I'd arrive to find several metres of MY fax paper piled up, filled with advertising junk. If I called the 'don't send' number, that was counted as a positive response and I got more faxes from 'different' companies. They also charged me one pound fifty a minute to cancel the fax I didn't want.

Ultimately the consumer can't win except by refusing to buy any product or service marketed that way.

Og