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Robo calls, there is no chance I would use your service. Stop calling

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Cornerstone Business Group Inc 0225086119

Since the National DO NOT CALL REGISTRY legislation passed in 2004, telemarketers are not supposed to call us mortals who have asked to be on that list. Generally, if someone calls me, I will ask them to take me off their call list because I'm on the NDNCR. In the past, that worked pretty well, and I had a few years of reasonable bliss.

That was then, this is now. I'm assuming the telemarketer maggots have figured that if they use a robo-digital service that it's not the same as a personal phone call. I've received as many as 20 in a day while in my office. My assistant spends an unfortunate part of her day answering calls that are recorded messages from these system violators. As the day goes along, I hear her phone hit the cradle harder and harder. 

So, here is my notice to all telemarketer robo-digital-recorded-message callers. There is not a snowball's chance in Hades that I would ever buy your product, support your cause or use your service. The fact that you have no respect for my privacy, which I have made public by registering my numbers, is proof enough for me to take you off any kind of list that would include employing your services or buying your products.

I personally would like to run a program that returns these calls every 15 seconds for days on end. The calls would have a recording of me screaming into the phone that I don't accept robo calls, but alas, I haven't gotten that far yet. I'm too busy answering robo calls.

Comments (10)

Andrea Bedard
Thompson Company, REALTORS® 240.593.2860 - Silver Spring, MD
Fluent in Real Estate & German, M.A. ABR ASP CIPS

Oh, I want that program to Mike! I sometimes think how much fun it would be to annoy the heck out of the people who annoy us. But .. I got better things to do. My blocked number list is getting really long. I hope there's no limit to how many I can block?

May 23, 2016 01:29 PM
Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV

I think I may have more blocked numbers on my list than contacts. Blah!

May 23, 2016 01:35 PM
Dan Tabit
Keller Williams Bellevue - Sammamish, WA

Can I sign onto that program too? Between people wanting to change my credit card interest rate, clean my ducts and vote for their candidate, I barely can take any real calls. 

May 23, 2016 02:19 PM
Libby Cousins
Extraordinary Processing - Spokane, WA
Contract Mortgage Processor, licensed in WA

I dislike the new robo calls that start with "Hi. Can you hear me?" I have learned to just hang up on those. I got one today actually. 

May 23, 2016 04:27 PM
Dianne Goode

I try to beat my speed record eaching time!  Surely it shows on their end that the contection lasted 5 seconds or less.  But it doesn't stop the calls coming.

May 23, 2016 11:21 PM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Good morning Mike.  Yes those lovely robo calls.  I'm sure the politicians in the next two to three decades will figure out some legislation to fix the problem... Sorry I'm daydreaming 

May 23, 2016 07:01 PM
JM Padron, CCIM, CCP
THE JMTEAM NETWORK - Orlando, FL
CCIM, CCP, International Commercial Broker

Mike, I agree these people have not respect whatsoever, one question I had do they really sell anything? I don't think so! Thanks for sharing 

May 23, 2016 10:28 PM
Sheila Anderson
Referral Group Incorporated - East Brunswick, NJ
The Real Estate Whisperer Who Listens 732-715-1133

Good morning Mike. I agree completely. I have to believe these companies get it and just choose to annoy. Dumb.

May 23, 2016 10:57 PM
Dianne Goode
Raleigh Cary Realty - Raleigh, NC
Realtor/Broker

Annoying as they are, they must work -- right?  Or the companies would stop doing them.

May 23, 2016 11:23 PM
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Create that program you will sell a lot of it.  I feel the same way. The number of calls I get per day are over the moon.  I hate them.  Pick up the call and the voice says ...STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING ... go f yourself is my response and I hang up. 

May 24, 2016 01:08 AM
Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
HomeSmart Realty West & Florida Realty Investments - , CA
Presence, Persistence & Perseverance

Another clear example to a system of laws failing to protect. The expanse of blocked contacts on my cell telephones eclypses the number of legitimate contacts I keep. I know cell telephones are not included in the DNC registry, but they should be and the law should be enforced with the full effort of the Courts.

May 24, 2016 03:40 AM
Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV

I'm tempted to contact an attorney who would like to split the fees over suing these folks. I get 25-50 per day. My staff pends have of their time answering these worthless calls.

May 24, 2016 04:05 AM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

I get an awful lot of robo-calls each day too, Mike!  I keep wondering why the FCC can't do more to get rid of them.  My thinking is those who would break the law to bother me, don't deserve anything more than my immediately hanging up on them!

May 24, 2016 12:04 PM