For me the do not call list has really cut down the numbers. I do still get an occasional call, usually a salesperson. My answer is to interrupt their spiel and tell them that I make it a personal policy to NEVER do business with any company that uses telemarketing.

As for the "charities" ie Policemens benevolent fund, they really aren't and are not tax deductible. I tell them that when they can offer me a tax dedcutible receipt , they should call me again, but otherwise , remove me from their call list. I never hear from them again.

The one that annoys me is the companies you actually do business with. My mortgage company is a good example. For the entire 6 years I have been with them, I pay my payment on the 15th. It is legal and on time, I get the grace period, so I let the money sit in MY account. Their records certainly show that this is the case. Every month starting on the 2nd , the calls start. 4-6 a day, most when I am not at home. Now, I have a mortgage, therefore I work to pay it. Sensibility says that calling me during the day is likely futile, and since I have never answered those calls pretty obvious. Looking at my long payment history should be a clue that I have a pattern of payment. Neither seem to sink in. So I answer the calls, let them run thru their line of crap, and remind them each time that I pay on the 15th. No matter , I still get the calls. They are throwing away valuable phone use time and wasting an employee having me called, and each time , they are clueless that I spoke to someone yesterday.

Raymar

My requests to be removed from the list never work.

I have even caught one caller who remembered and promised.

Having watched the movie, Outsourced I think increasing their time per call may hurt.

Someday I will schedule a home appt or do so for a neighbor.

Doesn't anyone have another script of life and how to screw them back?

You really wanna hear how to screw with your HOA? I don't think many members are HOA afflicted.

Moi

Screw Unto Others as They Screw Unto You

As I tell my Mother -- hang up!

moi621 (imported) wrote: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:00 pm My requests to be removed from the list never work.

I have even caught one caller who remembered and promised.

Having watched the movie, Outsourced I think increasing their time per call may hurt.

Someday I will schedule a home appt or do so for a neighbor.

Doesn't anyone have another script of life and how to screw them back?

You really wanna hear how to screw with your HOA? I don't think many members are HOA afflicted.

Moi

Screw Unto Others as They Screw Unto You

moi,

...buy an CO-2 air horn like they use on a boat and blow it into the receiver after talking real softly.

...better than a police whistle. You can keep protective ear wear by the phone to wear when you do it, too.

moi,

A-1 (imported) wrote: Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:06 pm ...buy an CO-2 air horn like they use on a boat and blow it into the receiver after talking real softly.

...better than a police whistle. You can keep protective ear wear by the phone to wear when you do it, too.

A-1, see my post above.

Do you really, really think it's okay to scare, nearly deafen, and perhaps send over the edge into a crying jag, some person who is probably working a job they took only because it was all they could get?

Remember, most telemarketers are minimum-wage folks who either can't do other work or have taken the job to pay rent and feed kids while they wait for a real job.

Yes, tease/delay/do whatever to the asshole telemarketers, but if the person isn't being a jerk to you... LAY OFF THE HORNS.

I would never use a horn on these guys at least not the first call but what they do is they start calling 2, 3 times a day, on that 3rd call its ok to use the horn/whistle.

River

so damaging the hearing of the person on the other side is ok

I do not fault people for having been trashed by what my understanding of engineering economics informs me is a fraudulent (fiat) economy and its intended transfer of productive effort from those who actually do useful work to the modern equivalent of Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class" social and economic parasites.

That said, Plain Old Telephone Service telephone lines and equipment and cellular telephone system equipment has level limiting such that an air horn will fully saturate either sort of system and the acoustic power delivered to the nuisance caller's ear will not be anywhere close to ear damaging level.

Even with a 1920 vintage local battery telephone, the battery voltage limits the power that can be sent over the telephone line, and, once one gets to where the signal is clipped into a square wave, greater amplitude can only slightly increase the rise time of the square wave while adding trivially to the square wave power.

Or, air horn? No danger to the ears of the person at the far end of the connection.

For the one blowing the air horn, serious hearing damage is far from impossible. Sort of like shooting oneself where one wants to not be shot?

Opinions may vary regarding wanting to be shot. and where, and with what.