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kenzie · Chanel

Blocking calls??

member · Hermes

Have you registered your cell phone on the Government's Do Not Call list?

kenzie · Chanel

No, I'll try that...but they already have my number in their system, so I don't know if that will help.

member · Hermes

NylaBelle wrote:

No, I'll try that...but they already have my number in their system, so I don't know if that will help.

What do you mean? If they already have your #, that would have to mean you registered right? LOL.

If that doesn't work - I'd keep ignoring the calls. I had something like that happen to me recently (it was some Fashion college trying to recruit me) and finally they just stopped since I never answered ever. HTH!

kenzie · Chanel

shopchicago33 wrote:

NylaBelle wrote: No, I'll try that...but they already have my number in their system, so I don't know if that will help. What do you mean? If they already have your #, that would have to mean you registered right? LOL. If that doesn't work - I'd keep ignoring the calls. I had something like that happen to me recently (it was some Fashion college trying to recruit me) and finally they just stopped since I never answered ever. HTH!

No, I meant that the company who keeps calling me already has my number, so I don't know if a do not call notice would work on them! I just want these people to stop calling. I'm ready to answer their call just to tell them that.

tara t · Marc Jacobs

how about "please put me on your do not call list."

or something; it has worked for me.

laken1 · Hermes

I say you answer it & tell them to stop calling, take you off their list, etc. I believe there's a law that if you tell them twice to stop calling & they don't that they have to pay you like $1,500 so it works- maybe I'm making that up? I'll see if I can find something to back it up.

Here are the instructions for "do not call" list - after 31 days of you registering you can file a complaint, so if you do it now, you can file even people with your number
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/dncverifyalrt.htm

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and aren't you in PA? Here is some info from the attorney general's office
http://www.nocallsplease.com/

-- Edited by laken1 at 14:00, 2005-10-12

jj · Kate Spade

If you answer the call and ask them to take you number off their list, they are required by law to do so and stop calling you!

Elle · Hermes

Yes, but they also have X amount of days to comply if calls have already been made, IIRC. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't demand to be taken off the list right then and there - I find the firmer I am with whomever calls me, the less likely I am to get another call especially if I get their name

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bex · Chanel

i kept getting calls on my office phone (at my house) for some CC deal. I told them two times to stop calling and take me off their list. I still kept getting calls. Finally I called the company directly to ask to be taken off and they told me it takes approximately 60 days for their "do not call list" to go into action.

Definitely answer and tell them you want to be added to their "Do not call list" and ask how long it will take to be effective. Note the date and if they continue to call after that time, then I would take legal action.

hth!

Andrea Julia · Coach

Wait-I think this is the company that was doing a contest for some car in a mall by me about a year or two ago. I don't remember if I told you about this. They called me up, said "You won the car!" I was so excited and then they were like, "Wait--you are 30-40 years old, right?" and I said "no." They said "Oh, Sorry. You have to be between 30-40 to win the car (WTF? I am about 99% sure my age was asked on the contest form). However, you could get 20% any vacation." I was just like F you and hung up.

MissMee · Kate Spade

There's a code you can enter on your phone to block specific calls as they come in. You'll have to call your provider to find out how to do it specifically. I had a caller ("out of area") that would call me every day and hang up or just sit in silence. Spooky AND annoying. So I asked the phone company how to block the caller. Since they showed up as "out of area," they couldn't be blocked, other than paying for a tracer. But since you know who they are when they call, you should be able to block them.