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Why do ppl complain about random calls, blocked calls, and telemarket calls?

Sky Blue said:
If you answer the phone, they know someone will answer the call and will sell your number to others.
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Legally a telemarketer CANNOT contact you if you explain you are on the DNC or do not wish to be contacted again.

If they continue to contact you beyond that point, you can ask for their information and threaten to contact various regulatory organizations.

You can also try contacting AT&T and see if they can pull some weight in stopping the calls.

Basically the law is 100% on your side, and if you are getting repeat telemarketer calls, or telemarketers who are selling your name to other businesses, you have every right to demand they stop.
 
Depending on my mood, if I get a telemarketer call and I'm off guard enough to answer it, I just ask them if they can hold for a minute, then I walk away for about 10 - 15 minutes and then come back and just hang up.

I have a TON of minutes (probably on the wrong plan) so I don't care about wasting a few for my own satisfaction. And I have no idea how long they wait on the line for me, but I know while they are I'm doing my part in saving all of you a couple minutes from them.

Taking one for the team I guess :)
 
consider telemarketing calls to be rude, when we are sleeping, my daughter is taking a nap, or when we sit down to have supper. All of the calls come to our house around those times too.

I do love the DNC list, it cut the calls in half.
 
In the UK your minutes don't get used for incoming calls, and on Pay as you go, you don't get charged

Receiving texts/calls to the phone is 100% free.
 
I hate these kind of calls so much that if I even get one telemarketing or several calls from someone who keeps calling the "wrong" number that I change my number. I did it yesterday and one of my phones. AT&T will change the number for free under these circumstances.

I only want my family to have my numbers. Even my job doesn't have my numbers.

And just so people understand how easy it is for telemarketers to get your number:

They are given a list with a prefix say as an example, 303-429-0000. The next number on the list is 303-429-0001 and then 303-429-0002 and so on till they get to 303-429-9999. It then rolls over to 303-430-0000.

Sure many times they are sold these phone lists but years ago I worked for a company that generated their own lists the way I mentioned above.

Also, allot of these crooked companys will mask their phone number when they call you. This is why sometimes when you call the number back, the number is not a working number.

You can find out allot about the phone number by searching for it in Google.
 
I usually don't answer my phone unless I know the number/it is in my Contacts. If I don't know it, I'll just let it ring. If they have my number and are trying to contact me, they'll leave a voicemail.
 
I'm on the dnc list, and still recieve about two calls a day.

Pre-recorded messages, mostly.
 
I've been getting calls from outside the US, and that is what really bothers me. AT&T can't do a thing about it except to offer me a number change.
 
Unless the rules/law changed sine the DNC registry first started, the DNC registry does not apply to companies with whom you have established a "relationship" (such as being a paying customer for product/service - even a one-time purchase) and certain tax-exempt organizations regardless if you ever contributed.

Also consider that phone numbers (in the US) are recycled, so you could be getting calls that were intended for someone else. Number porting has been around for only a few years, so there are a lot of recycled numbers.
 
Rogers my Service Provider had Promotion telemarketers calling my Iphone twice they called and i missed both calls i caled back saying "screw you and dont call me again"

they listened havent recieved one since, and if they do call me again im gonna threaten to change service providers on them, really make them feel sorry haha.
 
jc1350 said:
Unless the rules/law changed sine the DNC registry first started, the DNC registry does not apply to companies with whom you have established a "relationship" (such as being a paying customer for product/service - even a one-time purchase) and certain tax-exempt organizations regardless if you ever contributed.

Also consider that phone numbers (in the US) are recycled, so you could be getting calls that were intended for someone else. Number porting has been around for only a few years, so there are a lot of recycled numbers.
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This is the current state of the law. If, for example, you had a subscription to a magazine, they can call you for a period of time after you cancel to try to get you to sign up again. This isn't "telemarketing" in the strictest sense of the word, but is just calling their recent customers. The difference is that telemarketers have a huge list of phone numbers they buy from other vendors, while the company that calls you after you recently cancelled your service gets your phone number from their own customer list.

It's all a matter of how/where they get your phone number. A company has all the right in the world to call numbers they got from their own customers, even if they are no longer customers.
 
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