Replies

Hanging up has always been an option, of course, but that is not the point. The very act of a ringing phone intruding into my life while cooking, dining, or doing anything else normal in life makes me crazy. When it is a telemarketer, I am even more irritated! If I want to buy a product, I will either go to the store, or go online at my own leisure. Otherwise, leave me alone!

Your inability to not answer the phone while your are busy is not the fault of the caller. What if it's a wrong number? Do you then demand a "Wrong Number Do Not Call List"??

I'm happy you like to purchase products in stores and on the internet. Have you ever considered that someone likes to buy over the phone? If telemarketing was so annoying to everyone, as this ridiculous argument implies, then wouldn't they all just stop because it obviously wouldn't be working?

This sounds like Yogi Berra saying "no one goes there anymore because it's too busy". Someone is buying or they'd stop calling. I've bought products after being pitched on the phone. Subtract the charities and political calls (which gets into the idea you can constitutionally ban only one form of calls and not others) most calls are from companies you do business with already like credit cards trying to get you to buy into credit insurance, the auto club, the vacation point club, etc.

I've hung up on many, I've listened and said no to more, but I've also listened and actually bought the product. I'm not so hateful for a certain form of advertising because I'm a phone addict since advertising is everywhere.

I like the option that telemarketers can pay for calling people up. I remember reading about some option where the telemarketers would pay your phone bills as long as they could call you selling products, kind of like TV programs.