Cell Phones

[jadnifer]

I have been getting telemarketer calls on my cell phone!! I didnt even know that they were supposed to be able to do this! It doesnt affect me much.....except to wake me up or piss me off....cuz I have fee incoming minutes. But those people that have to pay for incoming calls....thats just wrong!! What do you guys think?

[Anathema]

i don't get that but i do get people calling for someone named sophie all the time. i keep asking the people who call if she if sexy because she seems to get so many male callers. shrugging. (mind you my name is not sophie either)

[Der Nister]

I haven't gottan any telemarketer calls on my cell phone and really, even when I had a landline.

The worst I ever got was a survey from channel 7 news.

[ssid67]

Had a telemarketer call a couple times the conversation went like this..

"Dude, whats your name". He replied "Mark". I said "Mark there is a better life out there for you"

"you need to go find it". He replied "@ZZhole".

never had a call since. go figure..

[jadnifer]

Had a telemarketer call a couple times the conversation went like this..

"Dude, whats your name". He replied "Mark". I said "Mark there is a better life out there for you"

"you need to go find it". He replied "@ZZhole".

never had a call since. go figure..

I should really try that sometime!!

[Gothmama25]

I had my cell phone number put on a do not call list to block telemarketers from calling me.

Go to www.donotcall.gov and register your number so telemarketers will be banned from calling you. It dosen't cost anything to register a number either.

[jadnifer]

Thanks!! I will be sure to go and register my number.

[Scary Guy]

I had my cell phone number put on a do not call list to block telemarketers from calling me.

Go to www.donotcall.gov and register your number so telemarketers will be banned from calling you. It dosen't cost anything to register a number either.

The do not call list is a joke. If the call is government related it's allowed, and it is a corporate government we have.

What I'd do is get their information and report them to the FTC. Because what they're doing should still be illegal simply because it is a cell phone.

[jadnifer]

The do not call list is a joke. If the call is government related it's allowed, and it is a corporate government we have.

What I'd do is get their information and report them to the FTC. Because what they're doing should still be illegal simply because it is a cell phone.

I completely agree with that!!

[Fierce Critter]

I don't have to deal with any nuisance calls like that...

...'cause I don't have a cellphone.

[Scary Guy]

I don't have to deal with any nuisance calls like that...

...'cause I don't have a cellphone.

These days cell phones > land lines in every way shape and form.

[BrassFusion]

I worked as a telemarketer for about a month before it drove me insane. I'll tell you guys now... the do not call list DOESN'T always work, and telling a telemarketer to "take you off the list" is TOTALLY ineffective. The lists of numbers we got were from brokers who didn't bother checking them against the do not call list. Many of the numbers were a few years old. I called some people who had been dead for months. Even if I crossed a name off our list, that only applied to the piddly ass oakland county based mortgage broker I worked for. Everyone's number was still out there and still for sale.

[Fierce Critter]

These days cell phones > land lines in every way shape and form.

Except cost. And nuisance factor.

Not to mention, if it weren't for the fact that I'm currently on BroadBand only 'cause my linksys pics up the signal from the hospital down the street, I'd still have to be on dial-up 'cause I can't afford broadband or DSL. For which I'd need a land line.

[Dubh Aingeal]

I have gotten a total of 3 telemarketing calls (morning afternoon evening). Any number that comes up as a number listing or unknown gets this answer:

"This had better be a life or death call. Otherwise you need to just hand the phone to your manager because your not paid enough for the language I am about to use."

They never replied and has never happened again.

[Scary Guy]

Except cost. And nuisance factor.

Not to mention, if it weren't for the fact that I'm currently on BroadBand only 'cause my linksys pics up the signal from the hospital down the street, I'd still have to be on dial-up 'cause I can't afford broadband or DSL. For which I'd need a land line.

See I'd sooner pay for faster internet than fix the breaks on my car.

Cost is around the same a month and nucance factor... just screen the calls, they come with caller ID.

I don't even answer the house phone here at all anymore, just my cell.

[Fierce Critter]

By "nuisance factor" I'm referring to how people get completely and totally attached to those fucking things, to the detriment of everything from concentration to manners.

I don't want people calling me all the time. I'd have it shut off more than I'd have it on.

As for cost, a cheap cell plan still runs about $40, and high-speed internet is going to run, last time I checked, at least $40-$60 a month. That's, minimum $80. Whereas a low-cost landline is going to run maybe $30 a month, and dial-up internet $25. Total $55.

That $25 difference is a whole other bill to some of us.