Excuse me, but I thought putting your number on that list meant you didn’t want to be bothered by telemarketers? Apparently that’s not the case. Those droids selling solar energy use that f’ing list as their phone directory. Assholes.
I’m betting I get 3 calls a week from some salesbot trying to sell me solar, and not one of these morons has understood that NO means I don’t want it. I’ve honestly tried everything to get these diaper loads to quit calling, from telling them I already have solar, my house burned down and I’m not rebuilding, I own the local power company, even that my house is adobe and has no electricity. Nothing works. Now I tell them I can’t hear them and would they please speak louder, and of course, I can’t hear that either. They usually hang up after almost screaming. But they still call back.
Damn it to hell. IF and when I want solar, I will investigate the company, the product and the price. I won’t buy from some here today, gone tomorrow telemarketing organization. Especially one that can’t understand what a no call list is.
They are breaking the law. Take their number and report them. You may need to play along with a real human if you need to get their real company name and number. Complain on Yelp. Make them hurt.
Every so often I get a barrage of calls suggesting I could do better by paying a fee to get on the top of the list of on a Google search. just yesterday I got three such calls from different states as it shows up on my call display. Now I think Google provides great services but they still are assholes.
A painting company used to call me frequently. After drilling them a new ashole over the phone a few times I changed tactics. “Sure, I could use some house painting, come on over.” Made an appointment. When they arrived, I took the guy’s business card, walked right past him, out to his truck and took a picture of it and it’s license plate. Then took his picture. “Smile.” Then in person, I verbally drilled him a new ashole." And told him to not ever call me a again. They did a year later… I made the appointment again. This time they didn’t show up and they do not call me any more.
So make them pay. Make appointments with them. Waste their time.
There is an exception in the Do-Not-Call registry for ‘companies with whom you have an existing financial relationship’. So your bank, your mortgage company, your car lender, etc. can call you. Reasonable. Then the FTC was foolish enough (or corrupt enough) to extend their definition of “existing financial relationship” to subsidiaries or contractors of such companies.
So if your electric company sells their customer list to a solar panel marketer, and the electric company gets a percentage or an extra fee for each person who buys, that solar company is considered a ‘part’ of your electric company, so they can legally call you.
A loophole big enough to send thousands of sales calls thru!
Yep. The DNC list is a joke nowadays. It also doesn’t include surveys, elections, non-profits, etc. And the worst part now are the robocalls*, because you can’t tell them to put them on their DNC list! It’s gotten so bad I screen all my calls – if it’s an “unavaillable”, or “out of area” or whatever, I don’t pick up the phone. If it’s important, they can leave a fucking voice mail. Half the time, they don’t. Fuckers.
*I wish we’d do what Ireland did and make them illegal.
It’s got to be something like that. Somehow these assholes that are calling for me know my name, my number and my address. It has to be someone I trusted to do business with. I wish the hell there was a way to find out who sold the list to them.
A definition of actuate is to cause to take action. So in this instance, false actuation looks like it might be making an appointment to have an estimate made (for example) only for the purpose of wasting some company’s time, resources, etc.
Get a phone capable of blocking numbers. We have a Panasonic KX-TGE; after the phone is told to block a number, any further calls from that number ring once and cuts off.
We were getting calls from the same number 3 times a day. I went online into my Time Warner account, and blocked the phone number and it worked. So, using called ID, I did that every time we got a call we didn’t want.
When they try to call they hear a recording that says “The party you are trying to reach is not receiving calls at this time”.
I do this. It does nothing to block the ones that call from a different spoofed number every time, which is most of them.
The constant harassment isn’t even the worst part— it’s the merciless, Grand Guignol fantasies of torture, should I ever actually meet one of the people responsible. It’s hard, knowing I have that in me.
There was one company that I blocked that called with several different numbers. I just kept adding the numbers to the list. I have 23 numbers on my blocked caller list now.
I, as a telemarketer, know that, but this doesn’t sound like someone the OP has a direct, working relationship with.
Unless you have a direct etc they are still breaking the law. Maybe it was Home Depot. They are an octopus with their testicles spread into every nook and cranny of the seamy underbelly of home improvements.
ETA: Have you told them to take you off their list? It’s like “are you sure it’s plugged in,” but I have to ask.
Yes, it’s not a single number or location. And I’ve told then not to call as I was not interested. I’ve been nice, rude, and even just hung up on them.
Funny thing, Home Depot put new counter tops in the kitchen about 10 months ago and all this BS started about 5 months ago. They would certainly know that information about me. I’m wondering if it was the now.
Companies will have rules where you have to use particular words to break the spell. “Take me off your list,” may work better than, “Please don’t call.”
We are a reputable company, as these things go, and will scramble to remove your name before tomorrow, but we legally have 90 days to do it, meaning you could get called another three months. The National DNC law is a joke.
One trick I’ve seen mentioned: Whenever you sign up to do business with anyone, use a different middle initial, or a slightly different spelling of your name. When you get junk mail, or possibly when you get junk calls (if you can get anything in writing from them), you might be able to see which of your many names they called you by, and thus tell where it came from.