Author Topic: Do Not Call (Read 665 times)

StSanta · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2003, 05:50:58 AM »

I am amazed you do not haev laws against this.

Here it is illegal for people to try to sell you ****e like that ovetr the phone.

I'd be REALLY pissed if I answered the phone during dinner for the xxxx time only to hear 'hi, are you interested in...'.

It's like spam, only over the phone. And it takes up more of your time. ANd you think it might be an important call.

Ugh. Telemarketers should be rounded up and used as target for the Metal Storm gun.

rpm · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2003, 07:37:25 AM »

Texas has had a "No Call" list for over a year and I love it.

Mini D · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2003, 10:47:29 AM »

Don't think this feature is something you really apreciate until you are a home owner. I get as many as 20 calls per night, as few as 5 calls per night... when its people its mostly for refinancing the house. Or its automated number systems just looking for phone numbers to add to lists.

MiniD

Creamo · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2003, 11:21:39 AM »

I enrolled, but get very few calls anyway. It's still a cool feature, ty for the link.

That, and I shut the phone off during the day, with the answering machine taking the calls. I do admit if Im not sleeping I monitor the messages, and I get 5 or more a day that have that static 3 seconds of almost silence, and never a message left. Pry not a family member with important news I'm guessing.

I did answer one call 3 weeks ago after a few cocktails that asked if I wanted the local newspaper. I said NO. And trust me it was Budweizer diven and much more colorful than that. Yet they have been arriving every day since, littering my driveway, and even sent me a $45 bill.

I sent the bill back with a "Please stop littering on my driveway" note. It was very effective. They sometimes leave it on my porch now if it's raining. Super.

I feel for the people that will lose their jobs because of this, but attending a technical college would make so much more sense for these guys. 18 months of bad schooling, and find a job that pays better. Worked for me 20 years ago.