No Call List Violation...Do You Report?
 

It appears our home phone # is a haven for sales calls. Have had our # on the Texas and national No Call List for years and have renewed our listing. Most sales people do not seam to care that I tell them I am going to report them. I have played the game and kept Card Services on line over 30 minutes many times and have had carpet cleaners show up to a vacant lot down the street. I report almost all sales people and they keep calling. Question, is it better to report them to the State or National or is it a waste of time? What happens when they get reported? Our home # is used for our business fax machine and is not listed.

Nope. I use OOMA. Perfect service. No phone bill. Ooma lets me block calls independently or as a group. Telemarketers calls are rare. And never more than once.

I have the exact same situation with my home # here in California--on both the state and fed no-call lists and am getting a slew of solicitations. Fortunately, we have a call screening answer machine with caller ID and voice ID so I am able to quickly choose to not answer.

To your point of reporting. One unknown number, obviously a solicitation and likely a robo-call, was calling every day early in the morning and also in the evening around dinner. I finally answered and immediately said I was on the no-call list and to stop calling. No one responded but I could hear noise/conversation in the background. I hung up and reported the number to the no-call website. Don't know what, if anything, was done but I haven't received a call from that number since.

The trouble is, you would have to report each number and I must receive 5-6 unknowns each day. Many are using call blocking to hide their numbers so it is a losing battle. Thank God for my answering machine.

I keep a home phone solely for Emergency contact for kids schools and not much else.

It rarely gets answered.

Anyone I want to have my number has the cell.

I've had Vonage for over 10 yrs and have received maybe 4 telemarketing calls.

I've reported maybe a handfull. All reported have been robo calls, never a warm body. If there is someone on the phone, I immediately ask that I be placed on their do-not-call list. At that point, they usually shut up and get off the phone. Those few that start to object simply hear "click."

I report the robo-calls

I report them all. When I get a robo call I try to get to a real person and get their "name" and what they are selling. Then I yell at them and call them names/swear my head off at them. I especially like the calls from "Microsoft" that claim my computer is sending viruses out. I made one of them cry. :)

If you don't report them the government does nothing.

report them all so the regulators can go after them

Why anyone who has an Internet connection would have a traditional phone line is baffling.

Call me when the power goes out and we'll talk about it!! :)

Seriously? If you live in an area that has solid cell service, why have any type of landline?

OK. I'll use my cell phone. I was paying about $1000/year for the ability to make calls during power outages before Ooma. I don't miss my land line at all. But you probably get more power outages in Colorado than I do in California.

Many companies I do business with require a home phone number. I don't want all these people calling my cell all day. That would be pretty disruptive. I need a home phone for people I don't want to share my cell number with.

PARF and its rabid conservatives would (presumably) not support the intrusive nature of this "no call list" thing. Gubmit and its regulations should be abandoned wholesale, according to the public policy geniuses there.

Conservatives might note that the "Do Not Call" registry is generally ineffective, like most machinations of big government. :)

They'll also note that the government has conveniently exempted political soliciations from the kinds of calls affected by the do not call list.

The only thing worse than "rabid conservatives" are people who don't have enough sense to avoid making inflammatory remarks of a PARF nature in the PPOT. :rolleyes: Do you really want to start a fight? Take it to PARF and take pot-shots all day long.

That explains why when I pushed 9 on the last TM call to be taken off their list all I heard was a political message.

Makes one hate the phone.

I wonder if pushing 9 to be taken off the list is akin to clicking the link to removed from e-mail spam (and in doing so, you alert the spammers that the address is valid and active) and you end up with more spam instead of less?