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I’ve been getting a number of call and hang-up calls on my cell phone with “caller id unavailable”. This is usually an indication that you are in a predictive dialer system’s phone list, and they are having trouble matching the call they made outbound to you with an telemarketer on their end. I kept answering them hoping to finally get someone to talk to to get me on their do not call list.
Today I got someone, and it turns out it was the friendly people at the Yes on Q campaign. I told her that (1) it was a cell phone, and she shouldn’t be calling it, and (2) that I’d like her to put me on the do not call list. Polite, simple, quick and painless.
So a few hours later I get another couple of hangups, and get really excited, because now I know that soon I’m going to get to nail their asses to the wall. Eventually I get a call where they manage to hook me up to a human, and stupidly mention the do not call list before I get all the info from her to let her know I’m going to be sending in a formal complaint. She hung up as soon as she heard “do n-“. I swear to god, no goodbye, nothing. Evil.
By the way, I went and reread the stuff at donotcall.gov and found out that political organizations that are looking for a handout are allowed to hassle you, even if you are on the national do not call registry. However, if you ask them to add you to a local do not call list, they must respect that, after the first call.
Update: As I was writing this, I got ANOTHER CALL! These guys are INSANE. I managed to keep this guy on the line long enough to attempt to get the information I needed to file a complaint. This guys had two excuses. First, he said his company had just gotten the telemarketing job an hour ago, and that there was no chance that I’d already been called by his company. And second, he told me there was NO SUCH THING as a do not call list. He ended up hanging up on me while I was giving him my phone number for a message to his supervisor.
Un-fucking-believeable.
Because the ditz the No-on-Q people sent to pester me at home was such an idiot, I had actually considered voting yes, just to spite her. However, now I’m caught in the crossfire between “concerned parents” (GRRRR) and “evil telemarketers”. Right now, the tele-spammers at Yes on Q are winning, 3 to 1: I’m currently leaning toward NO on Q.
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