Telemarketers Attempt to Get Around "No Call Lists" - Watch What You Sign

Snopes ^ | 27 July 2003 | Barbara "something to sting about" Mikkelson

[Warren_Piece]

There's another variation on this that has to do with the surveyor exemption. I got a survey call the other day, asking about my radio preferences. (BTW, this was for a very conservative talk station). Funny thing was, the "surveryor" did most of the talking about this stations shows. It occurred to me later, this is a way around do-not-call lists. We've had one in TN for a couple of years, so they've had time to find ways around it.

[BlackbirdSST]

Looks like people are going to spend more time and effort to stay off the list than they did not answering the phone. LOL! Caller ID w/Call Intercept was all you needed. Works great and has for the last 2 years. Blackbird.

[SAMWolf]

would you like to run for Govenor of California?

LOL! No Way, Oregon maybe, we could use a Conservative, but id' neer get elected by the Willamette Valley Libs.

[SAMWolf]

Political calls, charities and surveys are the kinds of calls I find the most annoying.

I agree you with you there. I figure since there's usually a charge thet it's just another way for the State to raise revenue.

[catonsville]

Be careful what you sign up for on the internet. Last week I "won" an $125 shopping spree. When I got bogged down in a multitude of personal questions, I checked the sites Privacy Policy.
In small print it gave all the business' sponsoring the site the right to phone me.
I told them to keep their prize

[mhking]

Slimy lawyers, slimy spammers and slimy telemarketing folk. Critters of a kind...

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Can I mail a brick back to a junk-mail firm using the business reply envelope?

[giotto]

There's only one way to handle junk mail--toss it immediately in the trash. My rule for mail is the same as for e-mail: If I don't recognize the addressee, or if it is obviously junk, it gets deleted. The only time I look for sales or discounts is when I'm searching for a specific item.

[Vinnie]

I recently visitd my sister-in-law in Ohio.
Sunday morning 8 AM she got the first telemarket call of the day. By noon she had gotten another 4. I couldn't believe it!!

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff. Mybe I can forward my junk mail to those who asked how to get more.

[AFreeBird]

I figured they probably modified the rules.

Pitty.

[HiJinx]

And that's not the half of it. I politely told a phone solicitor that my mortgage had a pre-payment penalty and that I wasn't interested in his offer and I hung up on him. He called right back and tried to convince me that my penalty didn't matter. As soon as I figured out it was Tony again, I told him what I thought of him and his high pressured sales tactics, and that I couldn't believe he had the gall...I'm pretty sure he hung up about a minute and a half into my furious monologue. I just wish he had had the tape running!

[SAMWolf]

He called right back

Sounds like a death penalty case to me.

[HiJinx]

LOL!!!

Time to run back downtown for the last work I'll do this week...and next...but I just had to stick around for your comment!

Have a great week-end SAM, I'll see you again sometime after the 8th.

[SAMWolf]

Enjoy. See you when you get back.

[Dubya]

Thanks for the heads up SAM.

[ChemistCat]

TANSTAAFL--or rather, TANSTAAFC/P.

[SAMWolf]

You got that right and most people still haven't learned it.

[George from New England]

I signed up 6 weeks ago for the Federal do not call list.

I just got a letter from my phone company trying to get me to send in to their association to keep from being called.

This is part of a secondary ploy to get my address on a junk mail list since they can't call me.

They kept saying "we'll do our best not to call you". Never a guarantee on not calling.

[trussell]

About two months ago I started getting telemarketer calls at work. I was getting up to sixteen calls a day. I put my work number on the no call list. Now, I get no calls to interupt my job. I like it that way!!