How about getting a small tablet with no phone capability and going back to using a flip phone? Smartphones are inherently vulnerable to all sorts of mischief.
Ringless voicemail affects ALL voicemail systems, because the TSP maintains the servers where the messages are sent and stored. Landline phones, flip phones and smartphones retrieve messages from those servers when you check voicemail. These phones do not have to be connected to a network while the caller leaves a voicemail.
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daleinaz
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Well, in many ways this "ringless voicemail" is the digital version of "junk mail" via USPS. It doesn't disturb me at odd hours, it's easily deleted, and if they want to sell me anything, they have to leave valid contact information. If by some rare planetary alignment, I'm actually interested in purchasing what they are selling, I have plenty of time to read reviews and do other research before I contact them. Compare this to traditional cold calls, where my phone rings at whatever hour they choose to call, and they may not provide a true phone number on the CLID, and they can use urgency to make me decide NOW. The ringless voicemail is definitely the lesser of two evils here. Still, I can't imagine that I'd actually buy anything that they try to sell this way.
Your post (especially the last sentence) points out the stupidity of the ringless voicemail concept. Those promoting it view it as a way to get around the "Do Not Call List" rules and spread their message. The concept that they do not seem to grasp, or they just ignore, is that those that are on the list have already expressed their unwillingness to be bothered by telemarketers, which makes them very poor candidates for any sales pitch (whether voice or text based.) I would boycott any "legitimate" company that tried to advertise to me by such a method. All of this comes from the greed of corporations and the arrogance of their advertising departments that feel that anything and everything are open game for them to slap an advertisement onto or into to hawk their products. Voicemail is just the latest thing that they noticed has not been thoroughly tainted by them.
It comes down to the concept of "Customer Acquisition Cost". If voicemail blasting is cheap enough, and gets them enough customers, it's worth it to the business. Of course the companies offering this are going to downplay any downside (i.e. bad publicity, negative word-of-mouth, etc).
"But we all know that, over time, prices drop." I did a search using 800notes' own and found one ad where the "price" is less than 2 cents a drop. What puzzles me is why these ads appear at all in search results. Oh well ... WE GOT THEIR NUMBERS !!
LEKANA wrote: >"cell phones are the Wild West and if you lose it you lose your life."
That's funny. I don't remember that being used as a suicide method in history around the Wild West, and it's not a viable suicide method anymore, either. If only it were.
Maybe we need to develop reports on all those companies and then when people start getting harassed by those ringless voicemails they can start calling the customer support numbers and harass those companies? Or even better yet fill the voicemail boxes up with ringless voicemails at the companies. Of the irony of that.
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