National Do-Not-Call Registry

[JManrow]

Has your evening or weekend been disrupted by a call from a telemarketer? You can register your phone number for free, and it will remain on the national do-not-call list for five years.

I was previously on the list when you remained on the old list for that was for 6 months. I just re-registered online. No telemarketing calls now till 2011 !!!

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/donotcall/

[oldbrownies]

We have student loans and we get called almost every half hour, between 10 in the morning and 7 at night (and I work at night) it drives me crazy

This should help me thought

[andy]

But non-profits and political groups are exempt. We donated to a cold-call from a charity and have regretted it ever since. They call and call, and don't honor requests to be put on a 'don't call' list. What's worse, they seem to have sold our number as we are getting lots of calls from other agencies.

[Twitterbait]

If you know they have ignored your request not to call then report them. when they call just tell them to hold for a moment and set the phone down and go watch TV... you give the telemarketer a break and they will get the hint eventually.

course you could always cuss at them.

[acrylics]

..or just tell 'em they got the wrong number. You can say "hello" over and over and over, you can start reading bad poetry, tell them what a sexy voice they have, all kinds of fun. 'coarse my favorite line is just say "oh you didn't hear, busted - yeah heroin" works every time :)

Good stuff

James