How come I keep getting telemarketer phone calls?
I signed up for the do not call list over a year ago, but am still receiving phone calls. They are not outright cold sales calls, but are just as annoying and I don’t understand the loophole.
They start off by saying “first of all, I want to assure you that I am not trying to sell you anything” and then they start asking a lot of rhetorical questions like “don’t you think it’s a crying shame that children are being morally corrupted by the filth coming out of Hollywood” or some other thing. And then they start asking me to buy magazines, with a portion of the money from the magazines going to some supposed charity to justify bad parenting and general stupidity.
How is this legal? The claim that this is a call for a political candidate is very tenuous. If nothing else, magazine publishers are wasting my time and are profiting from the sales.
It wouldn’t bother me nearly as much as it does if the telemarketers hadn’t become so rude. Obviously they’re used to getting told off by people like me who say they’re on the do not call list. I assume there’s some loophole here or they’d be fined heavily.
I just have no respect for people to take jobs like this and then get upset when people yell at them. Have some dignity and work at McDonalds if you must. Don’t get an attitude with me and cut me off when I start questioning your practice.
To schfing:
I never fill out online surveys, bud. Please don’t be so presumptuous, and consider that out of the thousands of phone numbers you call each day you may have been given bad information for at least some of them.
I have no respect for telemarketers, period. Same with debt collectors who go blindly on “information they were given” which often times is inaccurate. Choose your field and then stick to your guns, but don’t try to justify rudeness when you interrupt my day.
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Comments
Tell them you are on the no call list and that you will press charges if they continue calling.
Put a whistle next to your phone and blow it into the speaker of the phone as hard as you can when you know who it is. Than ask him, “Huh?”
It isn’t legal, and it need to be reported.
Pretend you are having trouble hearing them, and get them to tell you the name of their company.
Then tell them that if they call again that you will sue them.
If they call and say they are calling for a political candidate and then try to sell you something, I would contact the candidate that they say they are representing.
This is the link to file a complaint with the do not call registry:
https://www.donotcall.gov/Complain/ComplainCheck.aspx
BLOW A WHISTLE IN THE PHONE WHEN THEY CALL
when you fill out any on-line survey,you no longer belong on the d.n.c. non profit organizations do not have to abide by the d.n.c. some of the people that are calling you have been beat up by people who are just rude,by the time they get to you,they are worn out.some of them make a lot of money being rude.i make a good living selling stuff over the phone,i am not rude,but if you start cussing me because you were to drunk to remember when you filled out the survey,i will unload.if you tell me you are not interested,please take me off your list,that is what i will do.try being polite to the person on the other end of the phone,and more times than not ,they will be nice to you. when i call someone and they tell me i am calling a cell number,how did you get it?i never did fill out an on-line survey.well,if they never did fill out that survey,how did i get the number?i am not presumptuous,i am just being diligent.
The big problem with the DNC list, is the fact that if you are or have been in the past a customer of either the call centre calling or the company, the DNC list does not apply.
Best way to deal with Telemarketing calls you don’t want to receive is not to blow a whistle into the phone…it just ends up in your number being put back in the Que.
What you need to do is ask to speak to the callers supervisor and request that your information be removed from this call list and any other the call centre maybe dealing with.
Another reason why you need to this is many calls receive today is outsourced to offshore call centres that are not required to follow the DNC list even if they are calling on behalf of a domestic company.
Hope this helps
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