Telemarketing - a nuisance?

There is nothing wrong with telemarketing. Wait and let me finish. The DNC registry should have been created a long time ago. If you don't want to be called;then get on this list. Everyone today is tryin to make a livin one way or another. One thing that I need to mention that I find is very very sick is a telemarketer to call someone and the person on the other end is a pervert and just sick or the person curses at you with fowl language(really bad). I think companies should start filing charges against people; because the calls are taped.If the person called is not on the DNC list and they curse and use profanity; charges should be filed. Let me finish the law reads cursing or using profanity on the phone and if the call is taped; charges can be filed at the police station; if found guilty it is a min of $11,000.00 fine. Thats right you read it here. You know what is a nuisance a person being a pervert on the phone to a telemarketer. How about that.

I hate telemarketing calls but ever since I got rid of my landline phone I have not had that problem. They always seem to find a way to get someones phone number. Spam is also very annoying too and both should be illegal.

me too hate telemarketing calls

i hate telemarketing...they try to catch us via land line even mobilez! it is soo irritating i had to actuly get angry to get rid of them but gr thy keep calling after now and then!its realy annoying!

these calls are not always annoying...
why are people afraid of even attending these calls,
if you dont want what they are selling or talking about you can always hang up and ask them to not to call back again and they obviously wont cuz they dont want to waste their time....
the only thing i noticed is people are stupid enough that they think if they are going to attend these calls they are going to be fooled by the telemarketer...
BE SMART, you should atleast have guts to talk to anyone, and if its something good u should go for it...
but people are usually not confident upon theirselves and they think once they pick up the phone they are going to be fooled.

I've put my number on the do not call list so many times it's not funny!! I STILL get calls.

One company called me like 17 times a day no lie, trying to sell life insurance.

I declined politely at first, then I said add me on your do not call list, then I started telling them off then I changed my number!

#$#@$#@#$@#

yes it is and also some time it is cheating and it may reach its fruit when the becom sevice minded.

What is as bad is customers that call customer service when they in the car, the drive thru at McDOnalds, at a irthday party, breast feeding the brat etc.

i, for one, don't think telemarketing is an actual nuisance, or at least in a technical manner of speaking, you know.

for one thing, it creates industries, and thus employment opportunities become available to people who are living in countries with a high-enough unemployment rate that causes them to either starve to death, or become criminals.

you see, companies that earn big bucks pay these telemarketing companies to not only sell their products in suh a direct marketing system, but advertise their products and services in a more efficient and cost-efective manner. and, the profits that these companies rake in from suh a direct marketing system is then shared not only to the telemarketing firms, but with the people that work for such companies, and some of the profits are then turned into government services for the people because the profits of these telemarketing companies are also taxed in the process. now don't you think capitalist efficiency, when used wisely, would be the main tool for the utopian civilization as defined by karl marx?

Yes telemarketing is completely nuisance. In India the court has passed a law that telemarketer will have to pay Rs 25,000 per call if they make a call without consumers' consent. The consumer will have to go court.