Robo calls and telemarketers: Everyday we would get fifteen or more robo telemarketer calls. December 23 it all stopped and we haven't gotten one since. I'm not complaining, that's for...

tramsey Loc: Texas

Everyday we would get fifteen or more robo telemarketer calls. December 23 it all stopped and we haven't gotten one since. I'm not complaining, that's for sure, I just wonder if anyone else has been as lucky as us?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

WOW! 15 a day!
We only get 4 or 5 a week.
I haven't paid attention to them lately though.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

tramsey wrote:

Everyday we would get fifteen or more robo telemarketer calls. December 23 it all stopped and we haven't gotten one since. I'm not complaining, that's for sure, I just wonder if anyone else has been as lucky as us?

While my calls, from people wanting to sign me up for a health insurance plan, had gone up to 6 or 8 a day… I just realized I have not received any of these in a couple of days… a relief. Usually I just don’t answer but when I get more than 2 or 3 calls in an hour I answer and shout till they hang up. I realize these people need a job but they would harass and try to sell to elderly that don’t need it… so I do vent sometimes.

I am in their “on Medicare” target audience but being both retired military and 100% Permanent/Total disabled with VA… I am not in need of insurance… not that wouldn’t sell it to me if they could.

Health-wise, what the wife and I need is reliable delivery of prescription meds to the correct mailbox and not loosing them in the post office for several days.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

tramsey wrote:

Everyday we would get fifteen or more robo telemarketer calls. December 23 it all stopped and we haven't gotten one since. I'm not complaining, that's for sure, I just wonder if anyone else has been as lucky as us?

I have caller ID. If it is a number I don’t recognize, I don’t pick up.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Scruples wrote:

I have caller ID. If it is a number I don’t recognize, I don’t pick up.

Caller ID is basically worthless as it can be easily spoofed, especial with VOIP calls.

insulator Loc: JASPER, ALABAMA

I get a few but not as many as I used to, if I get a call and don't have the number in my phone I don't answer it. If they think it is important they can always leave a message. If not they are blocked from calling my number.

tramsey Loc: Texas

A couple of years ago I bought a Panasonic call blocker. It had an ID built in. It came with thousand telemarketer numbers all ready blocked, so they said. We still got 15 to 20 robo or telemarketers. I blocked them all and soon we were down to two or three. But then our friends and relatives were complaining that they couldn't get us on the house phone only on my wife's cell phone. I couldn't find their numbers where they were blocked so in the garbage it went. I had blocked better than five hundred numbers.
Now as a Christmas present they haven't called. It sure has been peaceful at our house. Thank you telemarketers for not calling.

scoundrel Loc: Wytheville VA

Scruples wrote:

I have caller ID. If it is a number I don’t recognize, I don’t pick up.

I will pick up if it is a telephone number or an ID I recognize or if I called and am expecting a callback. I do not pick up if it is my own name or number, which sometimes happens. If I pick up and it is a telemarketer, I won't necessarily hang up immediately but will quietly set the handset down and let them rattle on until they figure out that no one is listening. It doesn't stop the telemarketers, but it slows them down so they can bother fewer people in a given amount of time.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

No telemarketers? Are you sure you haven’t died???

Somehow they got hold of one of our numbers at work. Asking to be put on the no call list did no good whatsoever. One day we got 104 calls and had two on the line at the same time. One of those roll over systems where it switches to another line if the primary one is busy, the only way to stop it was to disconnect that particular number they got from the rest of the system.

Ollieboy

I get one spam call a day from Nikki Haley. Luckily my T-Mobile spam app deals with it. BTW political ads are exempt from the "Do Not Call" list.

muggins88 Loc: Inverness, Florida

Longshadow wrote:

Caller ID is basically worthless as it can be easily spoofed, especial with VOIP calls.

I get calls from myself.

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

I do not answer my phone if I do not recognize the number, period. If they are real, they can leave a message and I will call back.

When I did answer the phone to a Robo telemarketer, I would say hang on for one second, then hand the phone to my 3 year old for some fun. She had fun with it and the telemarketers would hang up pretty quickly. She is now 30 and does not appear to be harmed by it.

jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida

I used to get quite a lot every day from on my landline. But when we dumped that and only use our cell phones, I hardly get any anymore. Unfortunately, most of the time when I do get them it’ll tell me that it’s a spam call. Or a telemarketer. And if I don’t know the phone number, I just don’t answer. The others I block not sure that does any good though.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

tramsey wrote:

Everyday we would get fifteen or more robo telemarketer calls. December 23 it all stopped and we haven't gotten one since. I'm not complaining, that's for sure, I just wonder if anyone else has been as lucky as us?

The two things that make up most robo-calls are political and companies wanting to sell you medical insurance. Since we have passed the sign-up time for changing your coverage and we are in a lull for political advertisements, the calls have slowed down. As we move closer to election time they will increase a lot and the insurance calls will start again around September. Expect more than ever in a hotly contested election year!

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

muggins88 wrote:

I get calls from myself.

Well, just don't get into an argument with yourself on the phone. That could be a signal for the guys in white outfits to come calling.