[SEL] OT...Cold Calls....telephone problems

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Bill,
    Direct TV just had to make a $5,000,000 settlement for violating the 
Do Not Call provisions.  I don't know who enforces the law in your state 
but here in KY its the Attorney General.  He's done a good job of going 
after violators.  How do you handle someone calling trying to sell an 
engine......

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY


>Here I'd use caller ID and if they don't let their ID come through, I'd
>not answer it.
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>It's a major problem and the "do not call" lists don't work worth a hoot
>either as the caller say "it's their right to free speech to be able to
>call anyone for any reason". One time the fellow argued and said "I'm not
>soliciting or selling anything, we are just offering these great deals".
>What a moron.
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>And as far as their "right" to call me - BUNK - to me it's like
>trespassing if I don't want them on my line.
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>Automated calls are supposed to be illegal in Iowa, but they come anyway.
>Those are the ones where there never is a real person, a computer calls
>and when it detects a pickup, it plays a message. Even the political
>parties use those here.
>You have a heck of a time catching them or tracing them and they know it.
>
>Bill
>Runnells, Iowa
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>>This is something that i am now experiencing but from what i read is
>>something that the US and the UK have had for some time.
>>The phone rings and because you have the answer phone connected and the
>>message kicks in after 6 rings you rush to the phone and if you are in the
>>bloody workshop it is even worse ,i.e. you trip over something!
>>Anyway when you pick up the phone and say ''hello '' there is no answer,
>>not
>>even the bloody man from Bombay or Calcutta as has been the case[ my
>>solution to the latter is to ask if they can help me with my pet elephant
>>Abdullah ,he has gone off his food].
>>Seems these unanswered calls are " Cold Calls, computer generated and used
>>by call centres.Anyone got any good ideas of how to combat this problem?
>>Peter Ogborne
>>Little Grove ,Albany
>>West Australia
>>''Heart of the Rainbow Coast ''
>>jopeter at omninet.net.au
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