I despise telemarketers.
As soon as internet was available through my cable TV provider I ditched the home phone. I loved it because my wife and I both had cell phones and telemarketers aren't supposed to call your cell. for 10 years I never had to worry about telemarketer calls until one day...

My cable Tv / internet provider decided to start offering home phone service as well and thought that they needed to call me once a month to offer it to me. Every time they called I told them the same thing. "I don't want a home phone because I don't want jerks like you calling me and trying to sell me things i don't want. You are in effect trying to sell me on telemarketing calls with a telemarket call." I ask to be removed from their phone list and they tell me they have but one month later I get the same call.

Finally I went to my cable provders office and asked to have my phone number changed as I had given them my cell number when I signed up. When they asked for my new number I gave them the number that the telemarketers kept calling me from.

Problem solved. Now when they try to call me they ring themselves up!
(emuman cant afford PS so he beats MSPaint into submission, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 19:55, 3 replies)

Win!
I will be trying this with my local gym who keep texting me shit.
( thistle, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 22:20, closed)

Simple.
Yet effective.

*click*
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Fri 4 Sep 2009, 11:04, closed)

Winner!
I so have to try this!
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 4 Sep 2009, 15:50, closed)