A while back, you might remember, I decided to get listed on Australia’s Do Not Call Register.
Having telemarketers calling in the middle of meetings, meals, television programs, while we were sleeping, and as late as 3AM … well, that was a pest.
I was fairly uncertain as to how well it would actually work. Would I get more calls, or fewer? After all, the DNC register would seem to be a handy resource for unscrupulous marketers.
I sort of promised a review after 30 days, but without the phone ringing with telemarketers all the darn time, I clean forgot.
Well, after the first day, call volume dropped about 50% to around 5-8 calls per day.
After a week, that had dropped to 5-8 calls per week.
I’d registered at the end of October. This year, so far, we’ve had exactly one call, and only two in the last six weeks.
Actually, that’s a pretty awesome result, and far, far better than I expected.
Congrats!
I have found it to be very good (better than 95% effective) since July 2007.
It does expire though (mine in July this year for my current subscription) so make sure to renew it when it does.
In UK we have similar service TPS (Telephone Preference Service), used to get loads of calls around 6 – 8pm.
Signed up to it over year ago and was like you very impressed, had a good 18 months of peace.
Unfortunately this year started out bad as now getting several calls a day.
did you report the companies that violated the list?
I’m also on the TPS,now we only get calls from India.