Gadgets Get Sales Callers Through (Telemarketers find way around TeleZapper, Caller ID)

Charlotte Observer ^ | Fri, Feb. 28, 2003 | JIM KRANE

[jiggyboy]

Your state might have one (PA for example).

Try http://www.dma.com -- they have a section for getting you off mail lists, and that might work for phone stuff as well.

Also call the credit reporting agencies: Experian, TRW and I forget the other. They will send you a form that gets you off the lists they sell to people -- mostly mortgage refinancing and credit cards, which remains the bulk of my junk calls and mail.

[Between the Lines]

"Does anyone know how to get on these "do not call" lists?"

Here in the Carolinas there are actually telemarketers calling people to charge them to be on a no call list. Of course they are only cheating people out of their money and there is no such list for this area.

[Between the Lines]

"you are a communist. we have a right to make money and earn a living by selling products. why dont you move to canada?"

If you are using a device that deceives the caller ID or bypasses a blocker then you are misrepresenting yourself to be someone you are not, and that sir is bad business ethics.

[steve-b]

Er... excuse me? If I went around advertising a "black box" that would automagically bypass security and let you crack into computers or make phone calls without the consent of the line owner, I'd go to jail. How the hell is this any different?

[steve-b]

Telemarketing advocates fear Do Not Call lists could devastate those revenues and the jobs that depend on them.

So do laws against any lucrative criminal activity. Hell, I'd rather live in a world where prostitution was legal and telemarketing was banned.

[Tares]

Anything that has a pre-paid postage envelope I mail back to them,with all the junk they just sent to me(after removing anything with my name on it)

Rather than removing your name, include a note asking them to please remove your name from their mailing list. The message will get around and your junk mail will decrease.