This was on my cell phone -- it was a robo-call from Santorum. It was a recorded message asking if I was going to vote. If you hit the zero key, then it just hangs up.
**Does anyone know how you get the politicians to stop calling your CELL phone? **
I am on the Donotcall list, but I am aware that political calls are legal. However, I don't think it should be legal to call a cell phone. I have to pay for their calls – IT MAKES ME SO MAD!
(BTW, I try to not vote for anyone I get a robo-call from. So, campaign people and politicians, you keep that in mind!)
This was a voicemail from Karen Santorum targeted to women voters urging us to vote got her husband..haha, not a chance... can't wait til this election is over. So much for the DO NOT CALL registry....RON PAUL 2012 - HOPE FOR AMERICA
1) The best scenario is to answer the phone, and set it down on the table. Don't waste a second of your time listening or trying to hit some number to be removed. Just let the message roll. Trust me, they won't listen to your request to stop calling, but if we ALL burn up their phone line minutes by letting their message run full-course, they will feel it, as it quickly ties up their lines to make more calls.
2) If it is a live person, be extremely polite and tell them that you would "love to help them, but just cannot at this time" and offer to call them back... Now at this point you are in control of the conversation, and can begin to ask them questions that they normally wouldn't answer, like what company they are with, where are they based, etc. I have used this technique and actually been told real names of others in their organization which can be included in a report to donotcall.gov.
3) When I'm in a feisty mood, one of my personal favorites is simply to act like I'm half deaf and cannot hear them. After about a minute of "Huh?... What? ... Who again?" and phrases like that, they are more likely to hang up and actually delete your number.
Finally, if they know you are irritated by the calls, they WILL continue to call, so the real key is either make it so that you smother them with kindness to get them to drop their guard and divulge information, (which you can use ina report to the FTC), or to make it so inconvenient for them to call your number that they will remove it.