Do-not-call list 'useless,' critics say

I find it easier to look at he Call Display and not answer calls from numbers I don't know. If they're not a telemarketing scumbag, they'll leave a message...

It's worked for me. The calls stopped.

Good to know it works for someone!

The problem is that political parties, charities and other organizations you already have a business relationship with (banks, cable companies, insurance companies, etc) can still call you. I receive at least one call per weekday from one of those organizations (all from 888 or 866 numbers).

Interesting, a lot of people signed up for this and registered their cell phones. Those numbers NEVER had calls before because the markets have no phone book for them now suddenly are getting calls.

Yeah it works real well.
"I get more and more spam every day, and I make sure to fill out the remove me from your mailing list every single time."
(I didn't know if I should shoot the guy and remove him from the gene pool, or quietly inform him his email address is free of charge so I really don't give a fuck.)

I see on facebook that tommy chong was getting a prank caller, so he posted the number asking people to phone it. if it's not a publicity stunt, it's pretty freaking funny.

The number of calls I was getting decreased dramatically after I registered my numbers about five months ago. I think that the key was to be patient and not to have signed up right away when the service first became available. Overall I'm fairly happy with the overall results and (knock on wood) hopefully it'll continue keeping the phone mostly quiet.

advertisers often work off sequential number lists, 555-1234, 1235,1236, 1237.....(some numbers aren't even hooked up yet), so they make sure they can nail everyone. Each salesperson has a page or two of these number lists per shift and they keep dialing away until they get someone or get hung up on, so the do not call list means shit.

One problem I had was that it was some sort of automated system calling my number from time to time. No operator just the computer checking to see if someone and answered and when, then it hung up on you. Grrrr.

I suspected this info was then sold to companies. Sure enough around dinner time.
Ring ring. Pester people at home for sales has to be the lowest form of employment. I know people need work but I'd rather beeing cleaning urinals than doing that shit.

No I don't want to buy anthing can I finish eating my fucking dinner now !!!

just hand the phone over to your youngest child.

Ha ! Good one.

One time I saw my mother she's 64 handle a telemarketer. She started talking gibberish or her best version of some asian dialect until they hung up. I think I know where I get my twisted sense of humor from now.

If i spot them on the caller ID, i dont answer.

When I do get them, I dont waste my time or their time, I hang up. I dont explain myself, I dont wait for them to stop speaking, I dont answer their questions.

It might be rude but its efficient.

We never answer the house phone before 8pm at night. Come to think of though...............I never answer the house phone. If you want to talk to me call my cell, because I'm probably not home anyway.

More complicated than that. When I was the network admin for a call center back in 2002-2004 they used a predictive dialer. The computer dials phone numbers based on the predicted call volume of the call center and when a person picks up the phone the call is automatically routed to a call agent. The thing is that the dialer can call more numbers than there are agents available so people end up getting calls and there's no one on the line. Some phone numbers could be subject to as many as six or seven calls in a day. The advantage for the call center is massively increased productivity and the dialing system allows you to manage your staff in a very granular way.