Pet peeve - phone call solicitations

[gini]

I called that number ...
It answers with a recording ... listen to it for 30 seconds and it asks if you'd
like to be REMOVED from their call list ...
Punch the correct response number, then at the prompt enter YOUR phone that you don't want them to call.

I can't guarantee success; but it's worth a try.

I will try this - but there is a blog about it and people are saying it doesn't work - they still call. If you answer the phone no one is there. Thanks, Phred

I never - ever donate over the phone. Usually those are just phone banks and they get a percentage of what you donate if you do donate over the phone.

You wouldn't mind too much but there seems to be a charity for every day of the week and it gets old.

I have found that the do not call list DOES work - it has even stopped some of the faxes I was getting selling insurance. All they did was use up a huge amount of toner and those little cartridges aren't cheap!!

[Grace]

I never - ever donate over the phone. Usually those are just phone banks and they get a percentage of what you donate if you do donate over the phone.

We never do either. When anyone calls, soliciting, I interrupt them and tell them to mail it. Then I hang up. That may be rude, but I didn't invite them into my space.

[Randi]

Gini, that is SO annoying and very rude of them! I can certainly understand you're P O! I still get calls for John's company (which of course was closed years ago) from people who are trying to sell things.

What a friend of John's did to one company, was to send a fax with one word on each page late one evening. Can you imagine the pile of fax paper covering the floor the next morning. He never heard from them again.

[RICHARD]

Talk to George Agdgdgwngo, He may be able to help you.

You just need a sort code and account number.

[Asiel]

I get at least two calls a week from solicitors but I hang up on them. We donate to the charities of our coice and never to phone solicitations. I tried to get my number off the lst and it seems to have made it worse instead of better, so I don't think it works at this end.
As for the diabetes collections they are calls from people who pick up the stuff and them sort it to sell from a Value Village store so I don't donate to them anymore and as you say, after my first doantion they become almost unbearable with their calls.

[happylabs]

I have caller ID now and I never answer the phone if I do not recognize the number. I am on the "Do Not Call List" too and I rarely get any solicitations, not even from charities. I guess they have all figured out I am too poor myself to contribute. I give all my charity money to my kitties!