How To Stop Telemarketers From Calling

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If you want to stop telemarketers from calling, use this guide and try a multi-pronged approach.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Caller ID
Bluntness
Disconnected phone message
Letter-writing skills
Registry on the Do Not Call list
Internet access (optional)

Step 1: Use your ID feature

Purchase a phone with a caller ID feature. Let any unrecognized calls go to voice mail. If it's important, they will leave a message and you can call back.

Step 2: Answer the call

Answer the call but cut them off and say: "I'm not interested." If they ask for a person, even you, tell them they're not home and won't be for a long time.

Step 3: Fake them out

Use the phone company's message about disconnected numbers. Hearing this, the autodialing telemarketing company may remove you from their rotation. These recordings can be found online.

Tip: Online sites offer telemarketer tracking software.

Step 4: Call them

Call the company to directly notify them to cease and desist. Send a certified letter with the same message to drive the point home.

Step 5: Get put on Do Not Call list

State clearly: "Put me on your Do Not Call list." They are required by law to honor this for 10 years. Request a written copy of this policy from them, which the law obligates them to provide.

Tip: Register at www.donotcall.gov.

Step 6: Ask for respect

Interrupt their spiel and ask them to be respectful of your privacy. Be polite though -- after all, they need their job, and are not the ones orchestrating the invasion.

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[StupidSkateboarding]

oh they forgot step 7. here it is.

have your computer on a rick roll video and put your phone microphone on the speaker.

[DrkYaminoHikari]

I love telemarketers. Every time they call me I act like a different person. One day I'm Asian speaking engrish. Another day I am a gay terrorist. Then a horny 70 year-old pedophile. A Mexican drunk. A bipolar black woman. A deaf German. An oversexed Japanese business woman. The possibility are endless. Hahaha!

[nghivu]

too many steps. it's easier just to hang up and make it a law that ALL received phone calls under 30 seconds does not counted toward ur bill

[turbo84gn]

As soon as I ask any of those question, they hang up. If I begin to say "put me on the do-not-call list", they hang up. It is never ending.

[jrokkaaa253]

Just flirt with em, even if its a guy, just act homo, theyll get scared and never call back, if u have enough balls..:D

[656LEGOGUY]

@656LEGOGUY i mean video

[656LEGOGUY]

finally a good vcideo

[firstl99]

The "donotcall" list just is really a "pleasecallme" list.

[Fyapowah]

@retrofy23 Thanks, i forgot about this comment.

[retrofy23]

@Fyapowah y doesn't your post hav any thumbs up?? lol its awesome, thumbs up from me :D

[plutoroxx]

Is this a joke?

[X6MUSICisLIFE6X]

I just say, "hello? Hello? HELLO?? oh. Hi. What? Bye" or tell them i dont speak english, in english.