national do not call list

[John Dirks Jr]

Cell phone numbers get released to telemarketers this month. To put your number on the national do not call list, dial > 888-382-1222

[Jim Katen]

Cell phone numbers get released to telemarketers this month. To put your number on the national do not call list, dial > 888-382-1222

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

[John Dirks Jr]

I guess they fooled me. Thanks Jim.

[John Dirks Jr]

Wait a minute. Snopes is self procliamed. Here is the FTC position.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm

[John Dirks Jr]

Me again. I think I see what I missed. The issues are different for "cell" phones. The do not call list was develpoed for land lines.

[Inspectorjoe]

I registered my home phone number on the Do Not Call List longer ago than I can remember. It's a wonderful thing.

I didn't register my cell phone because theoretically, there's no need to. I did start getting telemarketing calls on my cell phone a few years ago, though. At first they were sporadic, averaging maybe one a week. Over time, they increased to about one a day. A few months ago, I registered my cell #, and the calls have virtually stopped.

[Tom Raymond]

When I registered online over a year ago there were tabs for three numbers, so I loaded up the home phone, and both mine and the missus's cell numbers. The only telemarketing I get now is an occasional (maybe quarterly) text message from my cell provider.

[Steven Hockstein]

I registered my phone numbers when the Do Not Call list was originally started. In the beginning the policy was that the restriction was only for 5 years and I had to re-register. Now I believe the restriction does not expire.

Unfortunately I get a bunch of junk faxes every week. Does anyone know if there is a way to stop the vacation and insurance scam businesses fro sending me faxes?

[kurt]

I disconnected my fax machine 3 years ago. I gently insist folks send me .pdf's.

[Erby]

Trustfax.com

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[kurt]

Trustfax works great, but I'm curious.......why don't you just do emails?

I tried Trustfax, but found it was easier and cheaper to simply tell folks to send me .pdf's.

I thought the National Do Not Call list only allowed you to pursue legal action if some mope calls you. It doesn't mean they're not going to call. I've been on the list as long as it's been around, and I still get plenty of calls.

[Tom Raymond]

As far as the fax goes; I have an all in one printer at the home office so I can send to the die hards that can't/won't do email, to receive we schedule a fax to the home machine so someone can be there to turn it on. I can oblige, but I don't have to make it easy for them.

Kurt, tell them that you are on the DNC list, that you have recorded the particulars of the call, and that you will pursue them if the call again. In my experience they go away.

[kurt]

I have the same machine. I explain to folks that those multi-purpose scanners turn the scans into .pdf's that they can email right out of the machine.

Most folks don't know that.

I started using .pdf's in 1993 when I discovered the first release of Acrobat. It took years to train my customers to use them, now they all do.

I just don't do faxes.

[Terence McCann]

Now PDFs are ubiquitous.

[Erby]

Most can do PDFs but there are still a few diehard fax users (aka old farts that just refuse to adapt to new technology) around. Trustfax is for them. It converts it to PDF and e-mails it to me.

[Nolan Kienitz]

I stopped the traditional fax many years ago and had been using MyFax for a couple of years and have even stopped that now.

Like Erby's solution this application put it all into PDFs and sent to me, etc., etc..

Here is the URL: MyFax