Business do not call list
November 29th, 2007, at 1:07 PM
Why on earth are businesses excluded from the do not call registry?
And yes, that is a rhetorical question. They’re excluded because other businesses had more pull.
I waste way too much time every day answering calls from telemarketers. And what really gets me is that only about one in twenty is a person. Most of the calls I waste my time on aren’t even from human beings. Ugh.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
I bought an application from Mountain Systems a few years ago that monitors all my incoming calls. You can set it to reject any number, any area code, or any prefix. If you get a call and identify it as a nuisance, you simply right-click on it and select “reject future calls”. It also has a function that rejects calls that have no caller ID.
I played with it by rejecting my cell number, then calling. The caller hears about half a ring and then dead air. A rejected call will cause your phone to ring one very short ring then display the number that was rejected.
It logs all incoming calls and forms a nice little phone book as well.
It’s called Call Audit 6.0 I think.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:48 am
I am a high school teacher and believe it or not we get calls here too! And this really peaved me…my 16 year old daughter got a text message from a HEARING AID company! A text that I have to pay for; and my daughter doesn’t even text her friends, yet the company had the nerve to text her!
November 30th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I will definitely check that out. That’s pretty much exactly what I need.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Junk text messages are bad, too. And we get junk faxes.
And none of it does our society/economy any good.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Hi,
Politicians are totally exempt from the registry. We are starting a non-profit to combat pols calling at dinner. Check us out:
StopPoliticalCalls.org
Shaun Dakin
March 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Our business is being overrun by telemarketers calls. We should be allowed to use the do not call registry. Now that telemarketers can’t call as many homes, the calls to businesses have increased exponentially! Our phone, like many businesses is our life line to our customers and we cannot get calls from our customers while getting unsolicited calls from telemarketers - human or computer. This costs us money!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
We have a small, busy retail store. We sometimes will run it with just one person staffed. when you are on one line with a customer and you have to put that person on hold to answer another call from these computer generated telemarketing calls, it can cost us money. Not to mention the junk faxes wasting our paper. It’s very fustrating. We usually receive 10-20 calls per day.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Well, I’ll tell you what I learned: if you put your business on the do not call list, you get fewer junk calls.