2 Million!

Amen to that. Get caller ID and just don't answer the phone.

I disagree.. it's never a bad time to end telemarketing!! if I want something, I'll look for it, I don't need some high school drop out calling me about dumb ass products!!

It's amazing how big of an industry telemarketing is.

I think it's sad that telemarketing exists for the same reason that email spam does: it works. People actually hand over their credit card details to some guy that just phoned them.

Yea but telemarketing is just like spam cept with telephones instead of emails.

Good, I get tired of fuckers callin me on my phone for bullshit. One day in the matter of 5 hours a pyshic hotline called my apartment 6 times. And finally me and my roommate got on the phone and both yelled at them. They were illegally chagning their caller id (what would come up) and when we called back it would just tell us that number was disconnected.

So we argued with them about taking the number off the database,and the girls like "well, it wont' get off for 30 days", and were like, "So you're gonna call us every 30 minutes to 1 hour and ask if we want a reading" and she's like "No this is the first time we called" were like "First time you called but we've had 5 other calls" and we argued for about 20 minutes til I just said, "Look my roommate is a ex telemarketer and he knows how easy it is to delete or mark off not to call for a phone number, and I know the laws and you're harassing me, if you call one more time, i'm gonna sue you for harassment" She put her supervisor on, and the supervisor tried to tell me the same thing, and I told her what I last told the lady about suing, and I never heard back from them again That was sweet.

But goddamn, 5-6 phone calls in the matter of 4-5 hrs! That's just outta control!

jDoG

2 million people + the telemarketers from INDIA, that's a lot of people

How many persons would lose their job if SPAM were "illegal"?

Way over 95% of my e-mails are virus or spams.