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Land-line users, how many telemarketer calls do you get each day? I get at least ten, even on Sunday. They are relentless.

Posted - October 12, 2018

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  • The market seems to be picking-up lately.
      I'm up to three or four calls a day.



         I love my answering machine!
      October 12, 2018 9:43 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Land-line users? Goodness, please don't limit it there!!!!  I get more texts and more blanket-phone calls on my iphone than I can count PER Day.  What's funny is when one just called me and another calls on the second line.  I shouldn't be that popular.   I quit answering my phone if a person's name doesn't show.  It would be a drag if I was the winner of a lotto. :)  
    To answer directly, I'd say at least 21 to 27 A DAY. :( :(.  
      October 12, 2018 9:54 AM MDT
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  • 52905

      Many of those private calls on your lines are mine. You never answer. (I'm not even selling anything!)  Grrrrrrrrrr. 

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      October 12, 2018 9:27 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Oh Randy, it's o.k.  Since we are being honest, I must confess.  You will most certainly recognize my answer.  Now you know.  The voice that reaches out and touches someone in more ways than one. 

    There you have it.  I jump on "Millionaire.." in my spare time.  That is when I'm not telling everyone to press 1.... 
      October 13, 2018 1:47 AM MDT
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  • 52905

      SHE'S FINE AS HELL, MERLIE!  Wow, how beautiful she is!   Her use of rise, pitch and inflection is so good that it drives me crazy with lust, and her diction is perfect, too!  I bet her grammar is spot-on. I want her so badly you wouldn't believe it. Grrrrrrrrr.

    Excuse me, I need to go take a series of cold showers. I'll be back later.

    ~
      October 13, 2018 3:19 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Lots.  Telemarketers, requests for money, and surveys that lose all interest when they hear how old I am.  You do know that over 55 we no longer matter to advertisers because I guess we don't buy anything.
      October 12, 2018 9:56 AM MDT
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  • I haven't tried it on telemarketers, but if you tell a door-to-door salesperson that you're unemployed ... they're out the door! This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 13, 2018 3:45 AM MDT
      October 12, 2018 10:02 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    We don't get a lot of those, other than Girl and Boy scouts. Once in a while a home-improvement salesperson will show up, but everything inside and outside my house is newer and we don't need any work.
      October 12, 2018 10:07 AM MDT
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  • I guess the door-to-door people are becoming an endangered species.
      October 12, 2018 10:10 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Knowing my luck, they would switch to people who want to hire me.  "Earn up to $1500 a night.  Dancers wanted.  No experience necessary!  We train. "  All they would have to do is have the automated voice read the ad.  Big giggles! 
      October 12, 2018 6:24 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    Then why do they keep calling? Oh well...I just click my phone on, then off. I had one harrassed me for two weeks. I finally told them I was with the FBI and we were tracing their number. That didn't work.
      October 12, 2018 10:03 AM MDT
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  • 2217
    We might not matter to advertisers, but over 55 is the prime age range for scammers to exploit. 
      October 12, 2018 2:07 PM MDT
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  • 435
    Probably average about 3 and some even use a local number with a name and then comes the recording.
      October 12, 2018 10:09 AM MDT
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  • It used to be about a half dozen a day, until I started answering the phone with "Radiology, can I help you?".  If it's a robo call, I will press the 2 key, for a live person and tell them that they called radiology and please take "us" off the list.  They always do, no questions asked.   Now I might get about 2 or 3 a week. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 14, 2018 2:34 PM MDT
      October 12, 2018 10:10 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    Press 2...I'll remember that.
      October 12, 2018 10:20 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    press 2
    does that really work?
      October 12, 2018 4:58 PM MDT
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  • Yes, it worked for me. I went from around six calls a day and now I get maybe 3 at the most in a week. 
      October 12, 2018 5:43 PM MDT
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  • Oh, the Press 2 thing, you meant.    Yes. Almost always. 
      October 13, 2018 7:14 AM MDT
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  • 10451
    We only get a couple a month so I'm wondering if there s a reason you are getting way more calls then me and if you found that reason maybe you could cut down on the number of calls you are getting. Selling phone numbers and e-mail addresses is big business - maybe a business or organisation you deal with is selling you information. Cheers and happy weekend!   
      October 12, 2018 10:21 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    I haven't had a problem with my Gmail...yet.
      October 12, 2018 12:47 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    First you say they are Telemarketer and then you say they are Relentless....  ...one day you will make your mind up...:(
      October 12, 2018 12:26 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    They are also bogus.
      October 12, 2018 12:48 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Bogus is a Bogie Man....:( 
      October 12, 2018 1:02 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    too nnany, ive gotten thenn on nny tracfone too, inn on the donot call list but i get called anyways, i got this robo thing that blocks thenn but i heard you have to have caller id for it and i dont have it
      October 12, 2018 12:53 PM MDT
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