Omaha Steve
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Fri Apr-01-11 11:00 PM
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First of the month, phone quit ringing, emails stopped |
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One you get on a donors list, it is hard to get them to stop. Between candidates, PACs, non profits, etc., the last week of the quarter can be rough. We have a hard time saying no. I used to be a telephone sales outbound dialer. Hope I don't lose friends over this secret.
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RKP5637
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Fri Apr-01-11 11:13 PM
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1. I get these robo calls to my cell phone, they wait for my phone rings and message to |
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stop and then leave one of their political robo calls. And it's always some damn bloviating republican using up my minutes with a long winded voice mail.
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arikara
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Fri Apr-01-11 11:59 PM
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Can you delete them without listening to them? Or with our land line voice mail we can press 11 which sends it to the end then delete it.
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RKP5637
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Sat Apr-02-11 08:11 AM
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7. There's no charge to listen to VM on my cell phone via a land line, so I just |
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Edited on Sat Apr-02-11 08:15 AM by RKP5637
delete them from there. At one time I had recorded a disconnect tone on the beginning of my cell phone mesg. which sometimes tells the robo call to disconnect. I might try that again. When I got a new cell phone recently I didn't bother to record the disconnect tone, but I think I'll try that again. I'm on the 'do not call list,' but robo calls for politicians are excluded. I agree, it's absolutely not right.
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Fri Apr-01-11 11:16 PM
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AndyTiedye
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Sat Apr-02-11 12:01 AM
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4. "Bo-Doo-Weep! We Are on the Do-Not-Call List, Telemarketers Please Do Not Call Here" |
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Our phone has caller ID and the ability to deliver different answering messages to different numbers. If a caller gets persistent enough to be annoying, we set their number to give an outgoing message:
"Bo-Doo-Weep! We Are on the Do-Not-Call List, Telemarketers Please Do Not Call Here"
The "Bo-Doo-Weep" is the tone from calling a disconnected number. Some robocallers will give up when they hear it.
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Omaha Steve
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Sat Apr-02-11 12:08 AM
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5. Charities and political are exempt from DNC |
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And I still report about one illegal call a month. When the ID says not available with Voice Messaging, you can't screen your calls. Sure if it is important they will leave a message.
And there are those we want to give to.
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Sat Apr-02-11 12:36 AM
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6. The Bo-Doo-Weep Tells the Robocaller that the Number is Disconnected |
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which in some cases will cause it to be deleted from their list.
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Sat Apr-02-11 08:21 AM
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8. It is called a SIT tone.. |
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... and yes, most telemarketers will hang up and remove you when they hear about half of it. It usually means a disconnected number.
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