I do believe I have much better things to do with $16,000 than to buy that list just to make phone calls to people who don't want to get those phone calls in the first place. But hey if it makes good business sense to you, go for it.
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JoeMama
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More than likely, someone on the DNC list inadvertently put their phone number out there somewhere and didn't realize it, getting on the list of telescammers. I don't believe for a moment that someone took their number off the DNC list and stopped getting calls. The scammers and other unscrupulous telemarketers are still going to have his number and will still call, as well as sell his number to other scammers/telemarketers.
Unwanted calls have definitely increased after re-registering phone number on donotcall.gov. Telling the telemarketer to remove telephone number from call list and do not call back resulted in additional telemarketers to start calling. I no longer answer phone unless I know the number and call block any that hangup before answering machine picks up or leave a marketing message. Well over 200 calls being blocked.
I used to make this very same request and like you I noticed an increase in calls. I have since learned that pressing buttons and or entertaining them only confirmed the number they we calling. So now I simply ignore them.
Oddly enough, my experience is the opposite. My phone is on the DNC. When I do get a telemarketer call, I try to answer and waste as much of a telemarketers time as possible. I don't block any numbers. Yet, I only get a handful of telemarketing calls per week (most are actually to my business line - google and merchant/lending scams - so the DNC doesn't help). After the agent spends 10-20 (or more) increasingly frustrated minutes realizing that they aren't going to be making a sale, they rarely call back. They sometimes even offer to put me on their do-not-call list, even if I protest.
"More than likely, someone on the DNC list inadvertently put their phone number out there somewhere."
The victim no longer has to have his number put out there inadvertently.
Some scammers have their systems set to auto dial all the numbers in ranges of numbers then record those that are working and not working. They're creating lists they can sell.
This will be a never ending debate and I think I am going to allow people believe whatever they wish. After all there are more important things we can focus on here on 800notes.
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Luther
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I don't know if there is any relation or not, but like the original poster, I was receiving a couple unsolicited cold calls daily from Telemarketers. Not a huge inconvenience, but enough to be annoying. I decided to put my number on the National "do not call" list. This was many months ago. Now it seems over 90% of incoming calls are from unsolicited cold calls, some with only a recording and not even a marketing agent. I receive at a minimum 10 unsolicited calls daily. I ask to be put on their companies "do not call" list each time, only to be called back by the same company the next day. I wish there were a way for me to collect income from every unsolicited call I receive. They have turned my home phone into their personal advertising vehicle. If I wanted to buy your crap, I would have already. No need to call me every single day month after month, thinking "he will surely change his mind this time." You cold calling telemarketing agents are complete idiots.
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Gil Favor
You think that's bad, try questioning the Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer services about their overall intent, complicit, or aiding and abetting. And, then the illegal robo-calls suddenly increased !
Ridiculous! You started getting calls the next day? Your name doesn't even go on the list for 30 days and not distributed for up to another 30 Days. The DNC registry was created for only ONE sole purpose. That is to limit the number of telephone sales calls, by legitimate American based businesses to those on the list. Those businesses must Register with the FTC, all of the information required that allows them to be entered into the FTC database including principals, addresses, phone numbers , sic codes and Tax numbers in order to purchase the list with updates every 31 days. Their cost is around $3500.00 per year and if they violate the list "repeatedly" after warnings and continued complaints, they are then fined 10 - 16k per subsequent violations. They are easily found by pulling them up on the database. The DNC only administers to those registered American based companies. No one and nothing else. Unless your complaint involves a Registered business, it becomes the responsibility of another agency. Most people believe it is a call blocker and/or a law enforcement agency. It is neither. The DNC was created within the FTC authority and intended to do absolutely nothing else except limit calls from legitimately registered telemarketing companies. If your call did not come from a registered business and did not attempt to sell you products, goods or services, it does NOT apply. The upward increase in scam call over the past few years is due to so much more available information available to anyone with a computer and an abundance of paper trails and foot prints left by people, and more and more scammers seeking to feist at the bountiful Table of the American fool. Count up the number of sales calls that you actually get from verifiable, unspoofed, legitimate American businesses and compare them to the shady side. It's that DNC and the desire to maintain a respectable self image and respect for people is why they are not calling. (Plus the threat of 10 - 16k fines). Most people only know what someone else, who didn't know, told them. They dont go to the DNC site and research. They believe that the Dnc is supposed to somehow monitor their telephone, along with the over 500,000,000 other phones and know exactly which calls they will or will not accept. What is being ask of the DNC is impossible. The DNC does in fact work. It does what it was created and intended to do. Those legitimate businesses do honor it. Scammers and scofflaws do not...and are not accountable to the DNC.
The types of calls you are describing do not come under the DNC. It was created for and does only one thing. It limits the number of telephone sales calls from legitimate American bases and registered with the FTC businesses. Most people consider any unwanted call a telemarketer. The FTC defines, for the purpose of the DNC, a telemarketer as one who uses telephoning as a sales tool, and attempts to sell products, goods or services. If your caller is NOT a Registered with the FTC business and does not attempt to sell you products, goods or services, the DNC does not apply. Go to the FTC/DNC site and research. Stop speculating and Get the facts.
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