After much inquiry and research I have reached a dead end as to how to get my home phone number taken off all telemarketing and tele-fund-raising call lists, locally and nationally. Even after I tell callers who want donations for local causes to stop calling me, the calls persist–and seem to multiply! I’ve searched for some sort of national “do not call” list and have only come up with a lame address in Farmingdale, New York. That was three months ago with no reply. My local Better Business Bureau is useless; they referred me to the above do-not-call dead end. The state consumer-affairs bureau claims there is nothing I can do to prevent these persistent invasions of privacy, short of paying for an unlisted number. My challenge to you is this: come up with a FOR REAL way to force phone solicitors of every type (commercial and “charitable”) to TAKE ME OFF THEIR LISTS!
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Write to the lame address in Farmingdale, as follows: Telephone Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, PO Box 9014, Farmingdale, NY 11735-9014. Include your name, address, and telephone number (with area code).
(2) It doesn’t affect automatic sequential dialing systems, the kind that play recorded messages. We’re working on a solution for these guys. It involves Uzis.
–CECIL ADAMS
