Telemarketers!@#%^&!!

[jevb]

Re: Telemarketers!@#%^&!!

I start singing out a single note, did you know even one note can be offkey? And sustain it until I run out of breath or they hang up. Seems to cut down on calls

LOL, LOL, that's funny! You go girl!

[jevb]

Re: Telemarketers!@#%^&!!

When I was 15 I worked for a telemarketing company collecting for charities. I was digging around in the computer a bit and found out that 15% of a donor's donation actually goes to the charity. The rest went to overhead ($5.50 an hour for me). I quit that day.

That's a real shame. I do believe in charities, and give to them. It's too bad that things like that happen, it brings disgrace on all charities. I used to give to one ministry in Florida, until they took to calling me on the phone to get more. That ended my relationship with them.

[CRFSaver]

Re: Telemarketers!@#%^&!!

One way to ensure everything you are giving is going to everything but overhead is give goods and services. United way can't pay people with clothes and cans of beans. What really bugs me is how much the "directors" of these charities make. Given the number of retired executives or their wives that have a ton of time on their hands, are you telling me you can't find a competant executive to run it pro-bono? Pro-bono? A charity? You mean free? What a novel concept...

[jhd815]

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The Direct Marketing Association also has a service that you can use to "opt out" of telemarketing offers. Here's their link that explains their "Telephone Preference Service":

http://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offtelephone

You can also opt out with the credit bureaus (who share your information for promotional purposes). Call 1-888-5OPTOUT

[claricem75]

Re: Telemarketers!@#%^&!!

Same!! The survey calls drive me crazy. I've gotten to the point where I also give up telling them 'no thank you' and just hang up. If you say no, they try to talk you into it. And I'm on both the DNC call list AND the state DNC list.

Clarice

I'm also on the do not call list but I still get lots of charities and survey calls, which always come at dinner time and I don't even eat dinner at the same time every night.

Last week I got 3 calls from the same person within a week. I hung up everytime. Don't you think that would be enough of a clue for these people that I don't want to talk to them? Why do they call back the next day? I hate taking my time to actually talk to them and tell them don't call me again, the hangup should be sufficient.

And don't talk to me about being rude (Mom ), I think it's rude that they think just because they bought my phone number they have a right to my time.