>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > TurquoiseB wrote:
> >
> > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I hate to go off topic but there also seems to be a very
> > > > virulent strain of telemarketinganitus spreading throughout
> > > > the country. One of my credit card companies keeps calling
> > > > to sell me a credit report service. For some reason they
> > > > seem to have a problem understanding some part of "I'm not
> > > > interested." I know all their numbers so just kill the call
> > > > when I see the caller ID. But the other day I wanted to see
> > > > what they were pushing and I wound up just hanging up on the
> > > > idiot. They keep calling back. Anyhoo, I wanted to ask does
> > > > France have telemarketers? Seems to me the French would have
> > > > little tolerance for such idiocy.
> > >
> > >Sadly, the French have idiots, too, and some of them
> > >are telemarketers. I don't have caller ID, but there
> > >is the same tip-off here as there was in the US. If
> > >you answer and no one is there and then you hear a
> > >click, it's a telemarketer. what happens is that a
> > >machine auto-dials their list of suckers and then
> > >transfers it to a human being (or close approximation
> > >thereof) when someone answers. The pause and the click
> > >is the giveaway every time. So whenever I hear them
> > >I hang up.
> > >
> > >It's never failed. I figure if it were really some-
> > >one I know calling me or someone trying to reach me
> > >about something important, they'd call right back.
> > >But no one ever calls back, so it's telemarketers.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > I do the same thing with the auto-dialers. There was even a
>device sold
> > that foiled the autodialers into thinking they hit a modem or fax
> > machine which would often result in the number being taken off the
> > list. When I get really pissed I have some screeching audio files
>I
> > play back over the phone. :)
> >
>
>
>I don't know about you but despite being on the donotcall list, over
>the past several months telemarketing calls have really increased to
>my home.
>
>Perhaps it is because I am self-employed and I use my home phone
>number as the listed business number for several professional
>filings I am required to do (such as licenses. Because these
>filings are public domain and since businesses are exempt from the
>donotcall list, perhaps that is what is happening.
>
>
>
I'm unlisted but even with the DoNotCall list any company you do
business with can call you. So your bank, mortgage, credit card, phone,
cable, etc. companies can still call you. Companies you don't do
business with you can sue if they keep calling you. In one case my
cable company called to sell me cable Internet but I told them I do
business via Internet and can't afford to play ISP roulette. They took
note and stopped calling.
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