I don’t know what unholy maggot-infested spawn of Satan company they outsourced their subscription renewal reminders to, but it needs to be dropped lock stock and barrel over Niagara Falls and then nuked from orbit for good measure. I’ve been getting calls from North Carolina for about two months now (maybe just nuke North Carolina?), to the tune of sometimes as many as five or six per day. They will not take no for an answer. They will not take fuck off for an answer. They will not take “never call me again” for an answer. They won’t let me talk to a supervisor; as soon as I offer the tiniest hint of anything but “sure, sell me more magazines at your fabulous low low price!”, they hang up on me. They never, ever, stop calling.
We’ve been harassed by companies’ salespeople before (Cablevision is godawful), but never like this! Cablevision was like three or four phone calls per week at its worst. These guys beat that in a single day sometimes. Oh my god. I hate them.
I have AT&T as a provider and it does work for me. I don’t believe you can block toll free calls though, i.e, 866, 877, 800, etc.
Plus you need to have caller id so you know which number to block. I have successfully used it for some obnoxious callers. I have about 9 numbers now blocked and I don’t know if there’s a limit on it or not. It is not 100 percent fool proof as I have had people use another number and still call me.
Call block is free, at least for me.
All my numbers are also on the Do Not Call list, but I hear you have to keep renewing it, i.e. your number on the list does not last forever, so resend the emails to the DNC list every year or so.
Probably wouldn’t do a thing in this case. If these folks are calling about a magazine subscription renewal, then there is a previous business relationship, and the Do Not Call Registry won’t apply.
This. They may have no idea whoever they contracted with is calling this frequently and ignoring requests to take your name off the list. They should because they should have seeds they put on the list for QC, but it doesn’t always happen.
I have never had that problem with Discover magazine. They do start sending me urgent renewel notcies 6 months before my subscrition is due, but I just throw them away.
The magazines always manage to find their way to me, the wasted paper does bother me.
I think a lot of these things are outsourced to Prisons, so the people who are calling probably don’t care much. Especially if they get a small bonus for subscription renewal.
One thing you can do is answer the phone, listen for the connection, and then set the phone down. See how long it takes them to stop calling when all they get is white noise.
The real solution is to devise a system which recognizes the number, automatically answers the phone, and plays a deafening high-pitched shriek at the caller until the call ends. I sense a business opportunity for the budding entrepreneur…
