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Sportsman2505qss wrote:I have been getting these phone calls lately. I called my phone company and they told me that you have to Register each year with the Do Not Call National Registry 1-888-382-1222 You have to call from the phone that you want blocked. I did this yesterday and no phone calls at all. I was told it was going to take 30 days.
This site states it is non-expiring.
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CavemanCharlie
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Sportsman2505qss wrote:I have been getting these phone calls lately. I called my phone company and they told me that you have to Register each year with the Do Not Call National Registry 1-888-382-1222 You have to call from the phone that you want blocked. I did this yesterday and no phone calls at all. I was told it was going to take 30 days.
It can't hurt to do this in any case. Although I get very few of these calls.
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Opie431
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I keep thinking I should listen long enough to get in the request to be removed from their calling list but I can never make it beyond the first few words.
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TugCE
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The Do-Not-Call list is a joke. I have complained about several numbers that keep calling me and from what I have been told it as long as a number shows and it's a live person there is not to much that they can do. Lately I have been getting more of the B.S. calls on my cell phone. One number calls about once a day. I reported the number and also googled it and it came up as a scammer. I knew someone that did tel-marketing and he said in order for them to get paid for the call they have to keep you on the line for a certain period of time and thet you have to say NO at least three times.
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Lady Fitzgerald
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Old-Biscuit wrote:Years of having to respond to the phone ringing.......emergency call outs, I don't have a landline and my cell phone is off. The cell phone is for MY use.
If family/friends want/need to contact me that know they have to send an e-mail.
I get NO phone calls.......and I LOVE it!
I'm the same way with my cell phone. So far, no annoying calls on that phone because I never give the number out.
I did years of emergency call outs, too. I still have the land line but I'm really close to yanking the bloody thing. People will just have use email to get ahold of me if I do.
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5er4ever
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Bell Canada was sued because they sell all the numbers on the 'no call list' to tele-market companies.
The auto dialers 1st do a call to the 'no call list' which tells them if the number is on the list. If so it is a valid #. Go ahead & call.
We found that calls were getting by the blocked list because we has multiple phone #'s. We thought we only had 1.
If you have different bundles you have with them different numbers (that most are not aware of). If a call is placed to those #'s you can see the caller but cannot block it. Our Bill showed the other numbers, we just never noticed it.
Where there is a will there is a way and they will find you!
Seinfeld said it best. Ask them for their number and you will call them back. If they won't give it to you tell them you won't speak with them.
The carrier makes a lot of money from those companies also so why would they fill the holes?
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Doug4.7
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The Mad Norsky wrote:The old Tom Mabe scenario. Oh yea! That is a funny skit.
"Yea! Put the body bag over there...Now son, how well did you know Mr. Mabe..." 
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emzee
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I get these sort of calls too, a lot more lately. I am on the Do Not Call list, doesn't help. I like the one where you ask them to hold on and put the phone down.
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Mootpoint
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My son tells the telemarketer that he finds the info. interesting and says he is going to get a pen a paper to write it down. He sits the phone down and goes back to whatever he was doing before the call.
I have yet to try that but I will be patient.
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msmith1199
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Try getting a business phone line. I'm starting a new business so I got a business line that is obviously going to be a listed number. The phone guy hooked the line up and I set up my answering machine on it and went home. I came back the next day and my answering machine is showing 12 new messages. I'm thinking great, I got a line from some company that just went out of business so I'm getting all their calls. So I start listening to messages. Half are robots and half are real people and all are trying to sign me up for their credit card processing service. Those calls continued at the rate of about one every hour for over two weeks. It's been about six weeks now and they are tapering off but they are still coming in at a few a day. I've only had maybe two or three calls from somebody trying to sell me something other than credit card processing. The others are alarm systems and office supplies. It's a real pain in the rear because you can't unlist a business number and I spend a good chunk of the day either answering the phone or walking over to look at the caller ID to not answer it.
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