Mother & Daughter Blog: Put your cell phone on the DO NOT CALL List - Keep your sanity!

Thanks for the reminder!  I just added mine.

SAVE YOUR SELF >.. This is Cell Phone Dont call list is a Hoax .. google it and you will see... you are sure to make a featured blog just from everyone telling you its a Hoax.

Hi Rosemary,

Thank god for the do not call list service. I already did.

Yup...its a hoax, details can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

Last Saturday I registered my cell phone because I was getting sales text messages I wanted to stop.  I went to the National Do Not Call Registery website:

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

There also some very good information there too.

Eric & Tony: check this out - http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/10/dnctestimony.shtm

 

How come I did that and I still get calls?

Thank you so much for the reminder! Just did it!

Your Friend in Charlottesville Virginia!

Releasing cell phone numbers to telemarketers on March 22nd is a hoax. However, telemarketers calling you on your cell phone is not.I have been receiving 2 or 3 a week for the last couple of weeks. Telemarketers are using predictive dialers by calling sequential cell phone numbers.

I is a good ideal to have your cell phone numbers placed on the Do Not Call Registry, if you do not want to receive these calls. Also remember, if you publish your cell phone number publicly on your web site, business cards, etc. you may still get these calls. Business-to-business calls are exempt from the Do Not Call Rules.

I wrote a blog a while back on complying with the Do Not Call Rule for real estate agents, if you would like more information.

Thanks, Good Post!

Rosemary, good reminder for all of us. I've done this.......don't get many, if any, calls. Don't answer phone calls when there is no number...................;-)

Thanks for the tip ! BUT...if we enter our cell number in any advertising the Do Not Call does not apply ! So be careful !

Kristal - Good, you added your number.  Thanks for sharing.

Anthony - I thought it was a good ideal when my cell phone started to get all those -telemarketers calling.  I hate that.  Some will call and keep you holding until they come to the phone - what is that all about? 

Tony - not sure I agree.  Thanks for stopping by

Deborah - I agree and I read the info before I posted this.  Thanks

Celeste - There is a 31 day delay from when you do it to when it is effective to the telemarketers.  The rule is that they check every 31 days to see if the list that they have changed.  And then you have those that do not observe the rule.  I'd get their number and report them.

Good morning Charles - nice to hear from you - long time.  I am glad to hear that you DID IT!

Michael - How did you determine the date is a hoax? And thanks for the additional information. 

Teri - I try not to answer the un ID calls but they get on my nerves.

Melissa - that the truth and I have put my cell # out there trying to get clients.  Instead I seem to be attracking only the telemarketers.  Selling neighborhoods, selling this and selling that.

Rosemary, emails with dates releasing cell phone numbers to telemarketers have been going around for awhile. Here is a link to Snopes with additional information.

Michael - thanks. I will check it out.

I have my cell on the Do Not Call list and still get daily telemarketer calls, many with blocked numbers and some with foreign phone numbers.

Rosemary, why can they get the numbers yet I still have no idea how to call another cell unless they give me the number direct?:????? I don't get it. Later in the rain~Deb

Rosemary I need to put my number on this list. I am really getting tired of sales people trying to get me to buy things that I do not need. Thanks for the remainder. Great post.