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tularetom

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1. If the Do Not Call Registry disappeared completely I'd never know it

Reply to Link Speed (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2013, 07:04 PM

Oct 2013

I couldn't tell you how many times I've registered my phone with them.

And I still get daily calls offering to refinance my (nonexistent) mortgage, lower my credit card rate, sell me a home alarm system or a walk in bathtub, extend my subscription to Readers Digest (that I don't have) or get all the viruses out of my Windows computer (which I also don't have).

It's one part of the government that could stay shut down IMO.

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Don't try contacting the National Do Not Call Registry [View all] Link Speed Oct 2013 OP

If the Do Not Call Registry disappeared completely I'd never know it tularetom Oct 2013 #1

I am painfully aware of that Link Speed Oct 2013 #2

I'm on it as well TlalocW Oct 2013 #3

If a real person is on the line I begin asking them irrelevant questions tularetom Oct 2013 #5

The best reply to some telemarketers was done by a friend of mine TlalocW Oct 2013 #6

It makes no difference if you do reach them - lynne Oct 2013 #4

I wish I'd get real live telemarketers, SheilaT Oct 2013 #7