I would just like to add that after you ask to be placed on their do-not-call list, if they call again within six months to a year in some places you can sue the company for harassment. On a television show I was watching on night it should a couple of families that got $1,000 because the same company called them twice.
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Is there any surefire way to stop telemarketing calls? (27-Sep-1996)
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