I understand hanging up... I do that quite well... but when some of us see nothing on the caller ID we don't have the choice to let it go to an answering machine, My husbands calls from Iraq (as sporadic as they are) don't register sometimes. And my attitude isn't the greatest when I get a hold of a telemarketer, which I can sometimes guess it is them by the 5 hang-up anonymous phone calls I receive a few days before I am graced with a real live telemarketer. (You know the kind - where your hung up on or hear silence because they switch to another call because your not getting to your phone fast enough.) But I guess the only time that is important to them, is their own.
I've heard "this is like junk mail" argument before... I don't mind junk mail because I check my mail WHEN I WANT TO, and it is at their expense (shipping cost, paper, envelopes, etc). The phone? I pay for the monthly service, and I am busy 1/2 the time they interrupt me.
I think that it's appropriate that the actual telemarketers are having to pay for this list they have to comply with (so much for the taxpayer paying 100% myth) But beyond that, could this be the real reason their mad?;
Data for up to five area codes will be available for free. Beyond that, there is an annual fee of $25 per area code of data, with a maximum annual fee of $7,375 for the entire U.S. database.
A company that is a seller or telemarketer could be liable for placing any telemarketing calls (even to numbers NOT on the registry) unless the seller has paid the required fee for access to the registry. Violators may be subject to fines of up to $11,000 per violation. Each call may be considered a separate violation.
Sounds like the "responsibly" is finally being placed where it needs to be, on the very people that have created this problem.
If he had, how would anybody notice?