[RevRuby]

legally if you ask to have your name taken off their list they have to give you a time frame during which you may still recieve calls but afterwards you shouldn't. some states have a statewide do not call list, pennsylvania just put theirs into effect. if they get pushy ask for a supervisor. with credit cards anyone under 18 cannot be sold and it's effective to tell them so and so is under 18. some states are no rebuttal states, at least as far as credit cards go. in other words if you say "not interested" they have to give you a closing statement. some company's believe only the contact person can say "take our name off your list" but it's not true, at least not according to some law, i forget which, i just know at my old company we were told the neighbor kid can say take our name off and we had to comply. you should not recieve anything because karen kept saying she wasn't interested on the recording. the marketer was probably using a cassette tape and rewound it eachtime to record over, luckily most telemarketing compnaies have digital recording through their computers, so if it starts and they stop it they can't rewind to record over it. also it is illegal to record you without permission, they must get permission to record on the recording! it is also the only way they can have sale without permission to record, they must record you saying no to recording. i have found it effective with phone company marketers (they call for nathan all the time because we don;t have long distance) that if they call while he is here and object to me saying no because i am not him, i hold the phone ot his mouth and tell him to say no, he knows what;s going on. also, dont think that if your spouse is being called that you can't pretend to be him/her. it works because there are some strange names out there. also if you get in the habit of answering your phone in a foreign language....then it works to say "no speaka ingles" saying hello in a southern drawl then saying "no hablo english" however does not work.

most of all tho contact your local phone company for information on how to get your name off a lot of lists, adn maybe which part of your local gov't to contact about the laws for telemarketing in your state. *69 won;t work because those number are blocked.