The Missouri No call registry recently “ran-out” after 5 years, according to recent, local media. The message was interrpreted that you have to reregister your phone number if you want to remain on the MO No Call List. I reregistered my phone number more than 3 weeks ago, and I swear, I am receiving MORE calls from non-profit organizations (i.e. fire fighters, police canine units, etc.) and from Marketing Research Companies (i.e.Knowledge Networks, Robin #435-893-0167). I have emailed complaints via the Jay Nixon Mo No Call List website and called the toll free number to get an answer with no success. These people that call me are VERY rude and hang up on me even after I ask them to remove my phone number from their list. Anyone got any ideas how to stop these people? Got any ideas how I can make these callers miserable too?
MO No Call List-I re registered and still get unwanted calls?
The Missouri No call registry recently “ran-out” after 5 years, according to recent, local media. The message was interrpreted that you have to reregister your phone number if you want to remain on the MO No Call List. I reregistered my phone number more than 3 weeks ago, and I swear, I am receiving MORE calls from non-profit organizations (i.e. fire fighters, police canine units, etc.) and from Marketing Research Companies (i.e.Knowledge Networks, Robin #435-893-0167). I have emailed complaints via the Jay Nixon Mo No Call List website and called the toll free number to get an answer with no success. These people that call me are VERY rude and hang up on me even after I ask them to remove my phone number from their list. Anyone got any ideas how to stop these people? Got any ideas how I can make these callers miserable too?
Why not contact your local media and detail to them your problem. Bringing attention to the problem should get help for you and others with the same problem.
It can take up to six weeks after you reregistered for them to stop.
Actually, they have 30 days to remove you again, so you’ll get calls for a while yet. That’s per federal statute. As for what you can do, tell them that you are on the do not call list and HANG UP.
First off some people are confusing the state do-not call list with the national do-not call list. The national do not call list is the one you want to be one, it prevents calls starting 30 days after you registered excepted from business you’ve had/have dealings with, political groups. and certain non-profit groups.
The state do not call lists can only effect companies that have business in the state, and they can take longer to become effective after you enter your number. Most states now just send your entry to the national list and this is why some state lists are no longer operating. Even if it does operate, it can’t be more restrictive then the federal rules.
Bottom line you need to wait a least a month before expecting the calls to stop, and even then non-profits can legally call you under the law, as well as those annoy vote for me messages.
Check to make sure you’re on the national list to make sure that you don’t recieve calls other then those the national law allows from anywhere in the US, and not just MO.
It takes time again to have to posted on the list. But in the meantime you can do as I used to do (as mine runs out in 2011) I took names, numbers, and any other information I thought I would need from such organizations. Then I informed them that I was on the no call list, and I was going to report them to the consumer protection agency for violating the no call list as well as continuing to be called after requesting to be removed from their calling list. I also notified them that the consumer protection agency would be fining them $25,000 dollars a pop for every time they called. To which the calls stopped. There was only one time when the party on the other end of the line tried to bullsh*t me into thinking that it would take his company 30 days to remove me from their calling list. My response was in my State when asked to be removed from your call list it was to be done immediately if not sooner. I dared him to challenge my response. He didn’t and removed my name immediately from the list.
As for making them miserable - it was always fun to ask them to hold and lay the phone down and walk a way. If they got rude I’d blow a coaching whistle in their ear. Or used a portable boat air horn. I figure they called me I didn’t call them, and I pay the bill for phone use, therefore I don’t have to take cr*p from anyone who calls in on my line. As for their voice automated machines coming on when you pick up the line - before you hang up dial in a mess load of numbers as it’s going on with it’s speech. Then hang up. You’ll do two things in doing this - you’ll have your number deleted within their system and it fouls up their system causing them to have multiple problems in getting it to work again for a while.