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I despise telemarketers.
As soon as internet was available through my cable TV provider I ditched the home phone. I loved it because my wife and I both had cell phones and telemarketers aren't supposed to call your cell. for 10 years I never had to worry about telemarketer calls until one day...

My cable Tv / internet provider decided to start offering home phone service as well and thought that they needed to call me once a month to offer it to me. Every time they called I told them the same thing. "I don't want a home phone because I don't want jerks like you calling me and trying to sell me things i don't want. You are in effect trying to sell me on telemarketing calls with a telemarket call." I ask to be removed from their phone list and they tell me they have but one month later I get the same call.

Finally I went to my cable provders office and asked to have my phone number changed as I had given them my cell number when I signed up. When they asked for my new number I gave them the number that the telemarketers kept calling me from.

Problem solved. Now when they try to call me they ring themselves up!
(Thu 3rd Sep 2009, 19:55, More)