Telephone Spam

[wildbill59]

Re: Telephone Spam

Originally posted by SwampNut:<br /> There's an easy, 100% effective solution. Drop your home phone and use only a cell phone. I did that six years ago and haven't had a single telemarketing call since.

Read the fine print in your cell phone contract. They can sell your #.<br />When I had a land line I got a call from MCI or Sprint. I told them I make about $5 in long distance calls a month. They hung up on me, guess me asking them why I'd want to spend $9.99 a month for their saver plan when I make only $5 worth of calls made them look stupid.

 

[don flowers]

Re: Telephone Spam

Maybe we can make "harasing spam callers" an Olympic event, but would that be a winter, or summer event? Our scores could be determined on: Salesman's time wasted, level of false sincerity, (and the best of all,) can you get the salesman angry enough to hang up on you. Waiting for other input. Don

 

[brine]

Re: Telephone Spam

Has anybody ever bought a product from a tele-spammer? I refuse to.

 

[SwampNut]

Re: Telephone Spam

Read the fine print in your cell phone contract. They can sell your #.

Doesn't matter. It's illegal to call a cell phone for marketing or even political and research purposes. All lists have to be screened for them. In six years, I haven't had a single call on my cell phone for anything I didn't ask for.