I was very skeptical about “do not call”- I figuered it would just provide the real sleazy and maybe out of USA scamsters with some good numbers to call. And- I hadn’t been called much.
So ididn’t sign up. But recently- I have been called more & more. In most cases- it is from some company that I actually do (or after the call- sometimes did ) do business with. But other call.
Has “do not call” worked?
Link?
No link, just empirical evidence. Before the registry I’d get these calls all the damn time - multiple calls in a day, sometimes. Several per week, every week.
Since the registry went into effect, I think that I’ve had about…one. Total. That’s in many months.
It’s working for me!
Hey, it’s working for me. My problem was not so much the calls the the faxes, which went straight to my fax machine, which printed them out, using up my very very expensive toner cartridges. Since DNC, I’ve only gotten a couple. And I reported them. (To the state no-call list, though, not the nat’l one)
DrDeth, in Colo. the law is that if you already have a business relationship they can call you. Of course then you can tell the caller that if they don’t quit calling you, you will no longer have a business relationship.
I’ve gotten maybe three calls since it started, all from people who I do have a business relationship with. We usually put my wife’s home office phone on all forms, and it is listed first in the phone book. It used to ring at least once or twice an evening (we never answered) - now it never does.
Sign on up - this is one of the best things that government has ever done.
Does the US Do Not Call system also apply to charities? I’m interested because they are proposing similar legislation here that will necessarily affect my livelihood as a telefundraiser. Not that a change of career would do me any harm at all mind you… 
kambuckta,
Here’s the definitive ref https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx.
It appears from the [More information] button that charities and political parties (Oh, Joy!) are exempted.
I signed up on the national list at the initial offering. I think our calls are way down, but my daughter who until the other day was around the house all day says we still get them all day long. I’m out from about 7:15 AM to 7:15 PM so maybe I just miss them all.
I understood from the beginning that charities and politicos were exempt.
It worked for me, at first, but yesterday I had a day off from work, and was home most of the day, and I got three calls that hung up before the end of the answering machine message. I guess some telemarketers just got sneakier about it. It happens occasionally on weekends, too. It’s nowhere near as bad as it was before I signed up for the list, but it shouldn’t really happen at all.
It’s worked like a dream for us, except that companies you already have a business relationship can still call you, as others have mentioned. That means your phone company still calls all the damned time about your long distance or trying to get you to switch over to their DSL.
Still, all in all I can’t really complain - we used to get several calls a day and now we get absolutely none that are not companies we have some relationship with.
We do still have a problem with junk faxes, though.