Description : Are telemarketers who use automated voice services legal?
Last Answer : Great question, as they’ve been hounding me recently, and it feels illegal.
Description : How do you treat telemarketers/phone surveyors when they call?
Last Answer : I’d like to pull a Seinfeld on them, but I usually just say I don’t have time, and please not to call. I treat them like waitstaff – as long as they aren’t pushy. They are, after all, just people doing their jobs.
Description : Are you already on the DO NOT CALL list to keep telemarketers from calling you your cellphone...?
Last Answer : answer:I registered with the National Do Not Call Registry a while ago. From what it says, your number remains on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law ... links to Snopes, but @MissAnthrope beat me too it. That has been floating around since about 2004.
Description : Why is it that telemarketers or people from the phone company (say), feel the need to badger the elderly? Have you ever encountered this?
Last Answer : answer:I'm not nearly so polite. I tell them I'm not interested, good bye. If they keep on jabbering instead of saying good bye, that's their problem. I'm hanging up. Your father's problem ... say that to someone I cared about. But telemarketers? They aren't really people. They're selling machines.
Description : How do survey telemarketers get phone numbers?
Last Answer : Have you signed up for the Do Not Call Registry?
Description : How do you deal with telemarketers?
Last Answer : First, I put my number on the Do-Not-Call list. Then, if I still get calls, I’ll say, “Hold on, please,” then put the phone down and walk away. :-)