[Peace4EarthNow]

Unbelievable....why can't these telemarketers realize that people are getting these blocking devices & signing up for these Do Not Call lists because they don't want to be bothered by them?

And now the telemarketers are trying to find ways to get around those blocking devices? Do they honestly think they will find a willing customer on the other end after all that?

[Paul Atreides]

The height of arrogance among telemarketers is that they are now having recordings call people up and giving sales pitches! They think we have nothing better to do with our time than to listen to a recorded message and WAIT for some salesman to take time out of his day for us?!!

[MizSterious]

Certainly not in our household! When we don't want to be bothered, we let the answering machine get the calls. Telemarketers hardly ever leave messages. I think we'll continue that policy. To my knowledge, there is no device that can force us to pick up the phone if we don't want to.

[Between the Lines]

"Do they honestly think they will find a willing customer on the other end after all that?"

Many of the people who rely on these devices to protect them are the type who can not say no to a salesman.

[M. Peach]

Apparently it is working or they wouldn't keep going in the direction. If they weren't making money on it - it would stop...

[templar]

Do they honestly think they will find a willing customer on the other end after all that?

Yes. That's why they do it.

[capydick]

True but, this is the free market at work. After these boxes are generally available, the carriers will come up with with something else to thwart these things. Oh - and you can be sure they will charge you for it.

One other point - I have found that our caller ID identifies 99% of these unwanted calls when it come up either "Out of Area" or, "Unknown". We either dont answer it, if we answer it,we promptly hang up. If you do answer and get that dead air you hear before someone actually talks, its a device which routes your picked up call to the next available slug who can talk to you. Just hang up if no one acknowledges your "hello?"