Business do not call list
November 29, 2007 ·
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.
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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.
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!
I will definitely check that out. That’s pretty much exactly what I need.
Junk text messages are bad, too. And we get junk faxes.
And none of it does our society/economy any good.
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
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!
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.
Well, I’ll tell you what I learned: if you put your business on the do not call list, you get fewer junk calls.
I have had it too. I own a small coffeehouse in Niagara Falls and all day I am answering these stupid automated calls. If I hear ” this is the last chance to renew my cars warranty ” I am going to jump over those beautiful Falls. I get about 10-15 calls a day and when you choose the option to have yourself removed from the list it doesnt work. When you get a human they get mad and hang up on you if you ask to be removed. I especially like the ones that when you hang up on them they continue to tie up your phone line for another 10 minutes. I cant afford to be wasting time and money like this. And if “Paul” doesnt stop trying to convince me Im a diabetic I may have to hunt him down and take a blood test for him.
So after reading all the replies I find I don’t see a response to my questions - Is there a “no call list” for businesses?
No, although there clearly should be. And if your business doesn’t have many lines, you can pretend it’s not a business and get away with it.
I work from home and my number is on the do not call list but all of a sudden I am receiving dozens of junk calls for my business. What gives and how can I stop them!!!
UNWANTED CALLS FOR BUSINESS ARE A DOUBLE WHAMMY. THE CONSUMER ONLY HAS TO DEAL WITH THE AGGRAVATION. THE BUSINESS LOSES REVENUE AS WELL AS THE AGGRAVATION.
THERE HAS TO BE A WAY TO GET A LAW PASSED. ANY BUSINESS ORGANIZATION YOU BELONG TO, CHECK THEM OUT. I WILL CHECK OUT A FEW OF MINE.
I WILL DEFINITELY CHECK ON THAT MOUNTAIN SSYSTEMS
i called us data corporation at 866 922 5584 and they took my business name and number off their lists & suggested i all the credit reporting agencies.
experian was very helpful i called 888 211-0728 option 6 and said i wanted my BUSINESS info removed from their telemarketing lists and she took the info and promised to forward it to have it removed.
transunion said to call experian
i called equifax and had to leave a message on the business solutions extension 888 567 8688 to call me back and we will see how that works