Invention Needed Fast

[thcri]

Would some one invent a device or what ever so the next time some solicitator calls me I could reach through the phone line and choke the bas***? Been home 15 minutes and have had 5 calls tonight solicitating and I am on the no call list. When I ask them how or why they are calling they are telling me there must be some mistake in the computer.

murph

 

[rico304]

Hey Murph.

I used to have the same problem every night. I worked 11pm to 7am, so I really didn't want them calling in the evening. I signed up on the no call list twice, and had my phone company block all "blocked" callers. That cut the amount of calls I took in half. The only ones that got through were the ones that have their numbers come back as "unknown".

Good luck!!
Les

 

[DaveNay]

(I know this is going to bite me in the ass.....)

I don't know what I have done (or not done), but we hardly get any sales calls. If I had to guess, I would say we only get 2-3 calls per month.

We are on the do not call list, as well as having an unlisted & unpublished phone number.

 

[Melensdad]

I now get one or two calls a year. No call list. Unpublished, unlisted phone number. My credit cards, etc get notified exactly one time that if they call to solicit anything that I will drop the card. In fact if I get a call from one I immediately ask to speak to a supervisor, I inform them that I am on the no call list, I inform then that if they continue the solicitation that I will drop their service, I ask them to make sure they remove me from whatever list they have me on and I ask for their name and an office number where I can reach them. I've never had one, or even a division of one call me back. I never give my phone number out to anyone that does not absolutely need it and I don't consider credit card companies, deparment stores, etc people who would ever need it.

 

[OkeeDon]

I'm on the nationa| no-ca|| |ist, and that's OK, but I've been on the F|orida no ca|| |ist for 10 years, and that's the one with teeth. I have not had a so|iciation ca|| in that period of time. Registered charities and newspapers are sti|| permitted to ca||, but most of them have |earned that if you're on the |ist, you resent their ca||s as we||. Therefore, very few of them ca|| any |onger.

Anyone with whom you have a business re|ationship, such as a credit card, a|so has the right under the |aw to ca|| you. I find, however, that few of them ca||. If they do, a simp|e reminder that we are on the no-ca|| |ist for a reason, and they shou|d rea||y think about that reason, and they don't ca|| again.

As a resu|t, it's rare that we get more than one ca|| per month.