I signed up for the Do Not Call List a couple of years back and I have to say (for me) it's been very effective. I used to get calls all the time, especially from six o'clock to eight o'clock. Now, even though I occassionally get calls from charities and such, I don't really get advertisments about switching my phone or satellite company or people trying to sell me rediculous products.

Seems like telemarketing is terrible in other countries... in New Zealand we get probably 1-5 a year...

Seems like telemarketing is terrible in other countries... in New Zealand we get probably 1-5 a year...

I've come to learn that list is a scam. They've been selling numbers on that list to marketers. I'm on that list and the past few months I've been pounded with tele-marketers. I changed my number because of it.

The easiest solution is to not have a phone. Get a pager! Lmao

If you request for them to take you off of their list they legally have to. Be as rude as you feel the need to, they don't have any consideration for what you want. It's a lot of fun to mess with them, like putting a telemarketer through to another telemarketer. Anyway I always just say, could you take me off your list because you just interrupted my dinner and I have no interest in your product. I still get a call every year or so though, but most of the time it gets rid of the really pesky ones.

I don't know about other countries, but in Canada telemarketing is a real nuisance. Especially those 'blank calls' that are counting how many people pick up!

I got this information from people actually in the telemarketing business. If you're outside Canada I don't know if they work but it's worth a try.

If you tell a telemarketer to take you off their list they are required by law to do that.

If you say 'no' three times they are required to stop trying to sell things/get your opinion.

Therefore the best way to do it is pick up, say no three times, tell them to take you off their list, and hang up. I've been doing this for quite a while and I get almost no junk calls anymore. Except those blank calls. They still annoy me.