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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts) Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:39 PM Oct 2012

The do not call list is a joke. Since I joined, the number

of telemarketing calls have doubled.

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The do not call list is a joke. Since I joined, the number (Original Post) mfcorey1 Oct 2012 OP

Tell each one Qutzupalotl Oct 2012 #1

We've done that numerous times with one particular organization and they just keep calling. City Lights Oct 2012 #9

yes and many are robocalls oldhippydude Oct 2012 #2

It's the largest database of gullible people ever created. There are no restrictions on selling it. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #3

Robo sales calls have no means to tell them to remove your number dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #6

Can I help? Archae Oct 2012 #7

Yeah...hold her down, perhaps. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #12

you owe me a keyboard justabob Oct 2012 #10

I feel like murdering Rachel with a chainsaw. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #17

Make a 1950's phone - they were damn heavy. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #14

yeah--typical American "solution"--sounds good marions ghost Oct 2012 #15

I have had the same # for over 10 years and very seldom get a call. if i do, I tell them to remove m beyurslf Oct 2012 #4

it's never made a shred of difference to my amount of solicitation calls...not a shred spanone Oct 2012 #5

Heather or Rachel from Card or Account Services? (nt) Nye Bevan Oct 2012 #8

I this that one every Tuesday at noon. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #16

Here ya go. Try this: proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 #11

Love it! This is so funny! eom mfcorey1 Oct 2012 #13

Qutzupalotl

(14,313 posts)

1. Tell each one

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:40 PM

Oct 2012

to put you on THEIR do-not-call list, and to not share your information with any third party. You won't hear from them again.

City Lights

(25,171 posts)

9. We've done that numerous times with one particular organization and they just keep calling.

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:47 PM

Oct 2012

It's infuriating.

oldhippydude

(2,514 posts)

2. yes and many are robocalls

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:41 PM

Oct 2012

commercial not political

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

3. It's the largest database of gullible people ever created. There are no restrictions on selling it.

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:05 PM

Oct 2012

Welcome to the 21st century. The entire thing is a scam to make money. Read the fine print - you have to re-up yearly and if you miss by one day you're on the sell list. It's a scam and has been all along. When calls come in with "Private Caller" or "Unknown Name" - ignore them. They're junk. Anything that comes in with "800-000-0000" is also junk (and I get those a lot - mostly rMoney carpet bombing).

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

6. Robo sales calls have no means to tell them to remove your number

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:34 PM

Oct 2012

one of these days I am going to make it my life's mission to track down Rachel from card Member services and beat her to death with a telephone.

Archae

(46,328 posts)

7. Can I help?

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:45 PM

Oct 2012

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

12. Yeah...hold her down, perhaps.

Reply to Archae (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:47 PM

Oct 2012

justabob

(3,069 posts)

10. you owe me a keyboard

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:51 PM

Oct 2012

Rachel is on my hit list too.... and all her little robo-buddies. She is relentless. The thing I don't get about her is that even if you stay on the line, there is no pitch. She calls just because she can with no purpose but to annoy her victims, or that has been my experience.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

17. I feel like murdering Rachel with a chainsaw.

Reply to justabob (Reply #10)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 09:53 AM

Oct 2012

I FUCKING HATE THOSE ROBOCALLS!!!

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

14. Make a 1950's phone - they were damn heavy.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 09:24 AM

Oct 2012

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)

15. yeah--typical American "solution"--sounds good

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 09:48 AM

Oct 2012

but there's ALWAYS a catch...

Didn't buy into this "No Call List" scam, & glad I didn't.

People need to know we do NOT have consumer protection in this country. Look how the FDA's hands were tied allowing this MA pharmaceuticals manufacturing DISASTER.

We also do not adequately inspect imported goods.

I could go on and on. This is the result of a "buyer beware" mentality. We pigs at the end of the pipe should NOT have to inspect and do research on every thing we buy or what is eaten or injected into our body.

Wide open for such scams in this country.