Ask yourself this. Who has more influence, your name on the do not call register or the lobbyists and congress men and women who get paid to insure it is ignored?
This number called the other afternoon asking about retirement home insurance. I don't intend to live in a retirment home. There must be a list out that target a certain age group. If I wanted insurance, I'd do some research and get my own without their nuisance calls. The mentality of the market today just plain sickens me!
I used to ignore and not answer these calls. But, I have reduced the number of unwanted calls to almost none by changing my action. I ANSWER the calls and immediately stop the caller and state "please remove me from your call list." Since most of the calls are legally made by companies making money when completing phone surveys etc, they have an incentive to remove your number from their call list. I do not hear back from them.