I was getting too many telemarketer calls. If I got one telemarketer call on Monday morning then I knew I was going to get them all through the week. This would happen once a week during the month with a telemarketer call here or there during the other weeks.
I joined the Do Not Call register and it was the best thing that I done.
In the beginning I was still getting the calls as it takes about 30 days for the calls to stop. After the 30 days the calls decreased. When I did get a call, I asked questions so that I could fill in the forms on the DNC website to make a complaint. To be honest that was a waste of time. It annoyed me more having to ask the questions and taken the time to fill in the form when I could simply hang up and forget about it. I think I filled in about 5 complaint forms and only 1 of them the DNC register could do anything about because the others didn't exist.
I do get calls from charities but I simply hang up. I have never donated over the phone and I never will.
The phone calls have 99.99% stopped. I may get 1 or 2 a month now, if any. Which is a lot better than 5 a day. So when the phone rings, I know it's from someone that I know. Not that I get many calls. If the phone wasn't needed for the ADSL then I wouldn't have the land line at all.
We're on DNC and have an unlisted number. We get very few nuisance calls and they are mostly from companies we deal with. Threats of going to the competition if they persist generally works with them.
The last time I got one of those calls, it was from some insurance company.
I replied to him in German and the guy then said, "oh, you don't speak English, see ya", and hung up on me.
I don't know how I was expected to understand him.
DNC has no authority to stop VOIP telemarketing from India. Indeed complaints about Australian companies cold calling (which is illegal) go unpunished by the DNC authority, ACMA.
The last time I got one of those calls, it was from some insurance company.
I replied to him in German and the guy then said, "oh, you don't speak English, see ya", and hung up on me.
I don't know how I was expected to understand him.
Here the Spanish cold callers don't even care if you can't speak their language, they will still go on and on and expect an answer despite telling them. It's quite funny, and they will still call you back 3 times a day because they never got their answer.
I guess I could look at it as practice to get my conversational Spanish up to scratch.
