How-to: Stop of Telemarketers from Calling You
Posted by Jon Lee in How-to, Offtopic, Personal, tags: advertising, How-to, ndncl, telemarketing
The Canadian government has just opened registration today on the National Do Not Call List. Basically, by putting your name on this list, you will significantly reduce the number of telemarketing calls to you. Registration is completely free and will take effect within 31 days.
It won’t completely eliminate all unsolicited calls however. The following organizations will still be able to call you:
- Registered charities asking for donations
- Newspapers selling subscriptions
- Political parties and their candidates
- Companies that you have dealt with in the previous 18 months (i.e. to follow up on an order)
Aside from those exceptions, you can expect all other telemarketing calls to stop. If you don’t want the above calls either, you can ask them to put you on their own do not call list whenever they first call.
I was a little weary about this at first but having gone to the site, it is a legitimate site owned by the Government of Canada so I do think it will work and will be enforced.
United States
If you’re from the US, you guys are a little bit ahead. You’ve had the Do Not Call Registry since February 2008 which works in much the same way.
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Oh, I will get myself registered in a moment – thanks for the info. I never heard about such possibility. I wonder, do they call to all people so often, or I have some kind of attracting karma?
’cause I receive 2-3 calls every working day…
Unfortunately, this has not received the kind of publicity that it deserves and many people are unaware that they can get this facility, leaving them exposed to pests
dang i didnt even know such a thing existed… time to register for that asap!
-jack
John, I am in the real danger of dropping off your scene unless you start posting again! Where are you?
People in US and canada enjoys a great deal of facilities and services that are available no where else in the world and so is this service. Lucky ppl they are:)
This service has just started in Australia and it works great. They can be so painful ringing at terrible hours. One back for us little guys
Jason
This was the major problems in which all are facing now-a-days.Receiving calls from telemarketers often seems like an unavoidable inconvenience.Thanks for providing the information on this.
I simply hang up in the first 2 or 3 seconds. There is no way to stop the calls, but if you cut them off quick it may help the next time.
That would be so helpful to have here in the Philippines where there’s insurmountable unsolicited callers every single day. It is so annoying to cut you in the middle of work just to answer those calls.
Hey John,
I use the tatic of lisenting for the response only after the first hello I say…IF there is no respose and then you say hello the second time and it connects…that’s because they have a system that connects them only if its a human answering..a machine or voicemail will not say hello twice!
thats why I say hello only once, then hang up if no one replies..try it!
A business connection of mine was looking to source some stuff on the internet, and registered with loads of directories. Now he is being harassed non-stop by chinese call centre people, who can be very persistent!
We have something similar in Australia, but I haven’t registered as yet. I just tell them I’m not interested and hang up, except for those that want me to do a survey as I tell them that I get paid for taking surveys and asked how much they were offering and then they hang up.
Hey Jason, mate, I wish I read your comment first because I’ve just gone and said the same thing. Oh well, in a sense I am reaffirming your comment so it’s not all bad. have a good one mate.
It is quite amazing feature for those who hate receiving unexpected calls. I have a friend who states -now she is safe from any calls from telemarketers.
Wow, I did not know this, I’m going to tell me parents about this. They’re always complaining about telemarketers.
It’s really great news. I hope this type of facility provider all government.
The national do not call list works for most companies, but some still ignore it.
Thanks for the information. I have never heard about such services. Is it possible to avoid the useless messages as well?
This is the best idea every since they started to allow telemarketing.
I thinks this is great news for Canadians. My sister who’s in Canada right now put her name on the list and she said it really reduced the number of calls from telemarketers. She don’t like unsolicited calls that’s why she is very happy about this.
I have found that the do not call list doesn’t work. I have signed up for both my cell phone and home phone number and some how I keep getting solicited?
I think it is great idea to implement the Do Not Call List. I have signed up for it but I still get calls, are there multiple sites i need to sign up on?
spam emails are quite disturbing me too, just like this telemarketers.
The do not call list has worked great for me. I no longer get those evening phone calls during dinner.
I have 3 phone numbers on the Do-Not-Call-List and until recently I was still geting at least 3 calls a day. However, I have now found a new tool to stop these annoying calls. The best way to stop Telemaketing Robo Calls is to press the number to speak to a rep, and then when they answer, yell into the receiver “F-off and die” and then hang up. I find that this is the only way to stop the company from calling you again, or selling your number to the next robo-marketers. Just make sure your windows are closed and cup your hand over the receiver so that most of the sound goes into the receiver and not through your walls and into your neighbor’s home. Believe me, doing this has reduced the calls to 1 call every 2 or 3 days, and as time goes by I expect that number to get even lower. Also, after doing this I feel great!