To who ever the fuck called at 11:30 last night while my girlfriend and I were peacefully sleeping only to hang up when we answered, fuck you. Maybe 11:30pm isn’t crazy late, but we have to get up at 5am. And anyway, it’s certainly later than you are allowed to be telemarketing (I assume that’s what you were doing since my caller display showed an 800 number). Regardless of that, being woken up by the phone always scares the be-jesus out of me and makes me think dreadful thoughts like “someone I love is in trouble!” The worst is that you hung up so we didn’t even get the satisfaction of berating you and telling you where to go! —No calls after bedtime
This article appears in Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2010.
I’m pretty sure telemarketing at 11:30 is illegal, OP. You should write down the number and report them to whoever oversees this type of thing (I’m not entirely sure to be honest).
It was a “computer” of a telemarketing company calling. When you pick up the line and say something, the computer logs the number as “valid” and then hangs up. Then company sells your number. NEVER answer numbers you don’t recognize….let them go to voicemail. If it’s important, they will leave a message. Telemarketers and call centers are all crooks!
yeah o.p., 11 p.m. here, 2 p.m. in india or where ever they fucking call from.
here’s one for yas.
http://www.everydaymoney.ca/2010/10/hello-…
and here it is .
http://www.telezapper.com/
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Telemarketing is such an intrusive, presumptuous, manipulative, intelligence insulting practice. What every single one of them fail to realize is that if I actually wanted their services I would be the one calling THEM, not the other way around. That they have the audacity to use my phone service, that I pay for, to conduct their business (read that: become rich at my time and expense) is beyond the pale. Is it worth alienating the masses to get the money of a few?
While I agree with most of that, Oceanchick, the fact is, they must make assloads of money doing it, or else they wouldn’t be doing it.
And how else would one get rich other than “at my time and expense”?
My time. My expense. I get to decide how I use both, not telemarketers.
i wish i could manage to post this, it’s audio only. the guy that answers the phone pretends he’s a cop at a murder scene
Go to the Dollar Store and buy a kid’s whistle. Put it next to the bed and give ’em a blast next time they call.
You were woken up? Some people have it rough.
telemarketing calls can be wiped out by having your number placed on the national do not call list! Otherwise turn of the ringer on your phone. Happy Snoring.
The Do Not Call List, while a good idea in theory, is flawed. There are plenty of exceptions they can use to get around the rules.
The Do Not Call List doesn’t work all that well… I signed up for it, but I still get telemarketers calling me quite frequently. At one point, I had the same one calling me four times a day. It didn’t stop until my boyfriend answered and spoke to someone to tell them to remove the number from the list. They actually listened and stopped calling the next day.
This has to be the week for it, Ive been getting telemarketing calls too, and texts that say their from ‘telus’ and my email was hacked. Everything has gone crazy! Telemarketers are the worst, I had some that would call my cell phone three and four times a day for a whole week, and when I patiently asked them to stop, the actually felt they had the right to be disturbing me four times a day and got irate with me?!
Some LD calling cards will also come up as 1-800.