Tips to get rid of telemarketers from former phone marketer

STUPID article for STUPID people. Could have been one sentence:

Sign up for the National Do Not Call Registry.

Because NONE of the crap suggested in the article will work.

or curse the hell out the their grandmother, they stop calling me and also aswer the fon and them let them keep talking and raise voulume of the Teli.ps als tell them I don't know how to spell and they say ah.

A few things I have for those telemarketers are: I still use dial-up, I ask if they will allow me to record our conversation, if their call is interesting I stay chatting with the telemarketers to bore them for as much time as they can waste with me. Not on any do not call listing to advertise my information. To all those telemarketers keep calling me I want your time. Being retired does have its advantages!

I just put the phone on the table and walk away. Eventually they realize they're talking to themselves and hang up. Rude? I don't care - it's my house, my phone and if I want your product I'll call YOU.

The recent problem is from "robo" calls, sometimes if you hang up they will just call you back.

did opt out and it seemed to work for years. seems when it expired the calls began to come in again. I just let my machine take calls. Lots of hang ups. If I dont recognize the number the phone just doesnt get answered.

I like to have fun with them. I never answer the question they ask. I say how are you today, and what did they have for lunch or dinner. I want to make so and so for dinner tonight, how do you make this. Have you been to so and so place.Pisses the chit out of them not getting an answer, and they wind up hanging up.Works everytime.

this person hasn't a clue---phone rings---it's Rachel or one of the other taped versions---BUT---no actual person on the line---it's my last chance (until tomorow--4x a day)---the take off the list option is useless
as is the annoyance call bureau

These tips won't work when you get "robo calls" and never speak to a person. If someone can come up with a solution to those, I'll be most grateful!

the do not call registry is a joke!! I get telemarketers anyway!! and if you say you are on the list they will say "what is that?" and fake a bad foreign accent

This is the day of cell phones! If I don't know the number, then I don't answer! No Message, it wasn't important! If I get the call more than once, I send e-mail to SAG because I am on NO CALL list! Seems to work for me!

Don't forget that the telemarketer is just doing a job. Many are using it as a second job . As one commenter noted, they are given a script and judged by how many calls they make and the number of people talked to.

I tell them The Atty. General office has advised me to get your name, the company name and record the conversation. Once I do that the Atty Gen. office will handle it and do not call again. Most of the time it works....

The best way to stop telemarketers is to blow an air horn into the receiver, it will blow out their ear drum. Nothing they can do legally, remember they called you

The do not call list is a joke to many telemarketers. I have one promising to lower my credit card interest rates calling twice a day for years. I have filed a complaint and nothing is done. Last time they called the telemarketer threatened my and my families life.

These suggestions are useless. If you try to take control of a situation by saying put me on the do not call list they hang up before you can finish the sentence. The Do Not Call registry us useless, the attorney general is useless. There is no way to stop these calls.

am on do not call list but a certain company keeps calling from different numbers and telling me they are from my isnurance company. after I tell them not to call,they will do it right away from a different phone number. and they are always indian.

I will always "buy" what they have to sell but I give them my ex's information, not mine. I wonder what my ex does with all those free trial magazines and coupons.

mchris1542 is absolutely correct. I'm on the National Do Not Call list, have even renewed althought they say it's not necessary, & I still get multiple Telemarketer calls daily

"You just want to remain polite..."
Who says I have to? I'll be as rude as I can be and make THEM hang up.