Sales person telling me they can lower my So. Cal. Edison bill. I told him I'm on the DNS list. He said he is not selling. I said, take me off the list. Blocked.
I hadn't heard that excuse for disregarding the Do Not Call Registry before...
They aren't selling you anything? They called YOU. They want YOUR money ultimately. That's selling something according my dictionary. Before they call again & they will (before you block their #, that is) go to Wal-Mart or any sporting goods store & invest $7 in one of those aerosol air horns they use at sporting events or for distress calls on boats. They start their speil, put the plastic horn part up against the mouthpiece of your phone & give them a little blast. 5-10 seconds ought to do it, lol. Those things are designed to be heard miles away over open water. Couple that with the fact that your mouthpiece is going to act as an amplifier, & you got yourself an idiot telemarketer with one heckuva ringing ear, lol.
It may not prevent them from ever calling you back, but I promise you that it is VERY theraputic, lol.
Have fun, bwaaaah haaaah haaaaah!!!
" ... put the plastic horn part up against the mouthpiece of your phone & give them a little blast."
Bad idea, the tiny microphones in modern phones are easily damaged by the high sound pressure put out by those horns. And those microphones are not easy to repair.
As for the excuse, the FDA is well-aware of it, and has rewritten their regulations to define any call that has an ultimate purpose of making a sale, to be a telemarketing call.