I hate the telemarketers

[dancer139]

I know it is their job,,,,,,     but call once and leave it alone !!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have 75 of them blocked on my land line and 20 on my cell phone.   Now that is just crazy

[UGetPaid]

This is a photo I took a little over a year ago when a call came in on our landline. I'd NEVER seen this come up on the caller ID before or since!  I did not answer it, but I DID appreciate them giving me a heads up!

[mrisha]

Telemarketers are like leeches, they will suck the blood out of you.  I get so many calls from telemarketers, auto calls, and others looking for an apartment.   I got fed up with the calls and put a block on them.  My phone may still ring 1 time then it is blocked.  After a while they give up and another round of calls call your number.  This goes on everyday to include the weekends.

[alarisracing]

Telemarketers suck.  Get a lot of calls and no one responses.

[Tresbn00]

We got rid of our land line and only take calls on our cellular telephones. I do not answer any telephone calls from phone numbers that I do not recognize or are not on my contact list. I figure that if it is important the caller will leave a voice mail and I can check it within sixty seconds and call the caller back if it is important or an emergency. If my children have an emergency and are not calling from their phones they have been instructed to text me from whoever's phone they are using and I call back immediately. I work in a compliance/due diligence/fraud investigation capacity during the day and if I see a phone number that I do not recognize I am able to determine who was calling. If it is a telemarketer I submit their phone number and company name to three 'buyer beware' sites, an anonymous complaint to the better business bureau for their area, and put them on a fraud alert list.

[sherryinutah]

We really do have the option of refusing to answer.  I no longer deal with the negativity of solicitors.  I choose not to answer my phone or door unless I want to.

That's been an empowering way for me to deal with a situation that I'd rather not deal with.   

[dsawan]

too much

[countrygirl12]

Yes it is the downside to companies that "promise" to not sell your information, but most likely do with some terms loophole... I thought it was funny today because I got a phone call from "-1" and I thought.... They've go so many robot calls now that they ran out of numbers and started using negative numbers...   

I don't think they sell your information.  It is not hard to get your name and phone number even if it is "unlisted".

[cathy37]

I also hate the phone calls and will not answer any number that I don't recognize.  When you tell them you are not interested and they keep on trying to sell you something makes me mad.

[gsdoss]

I am on the national do not call list and got rid of most

[h_padgett]

Other then that you could sign up on the national Do Not Call list from the FCC website: https://www.fcc.gov/stop-unwanted-calls . Although some telemarketers call, it will be A LOT less then they would normally call (well at least it helped my father)

The DNC does not guard against scammers posing as telemarketers and spoofing numbers - spoofing is where they call from one number or computer, but mask it with a different number. You can block the number on your phone and/or report the spoofed or mask number to the FCC, but it doesn't stop the number they're originally calling from. They'll just generate a new "mask" and try again.

[ktheodos]

Yes, telemarketers are very annoying

[bremer51]

Yes. telemarketers are a nuisance, but I try to remember its someone trying to make a living.

[sherryfan]

They sometimes can drive people crazy

[lhz123]

Yes, they still keeps calling even many times i told them to take me out of the lists.