Results: How to solve unwanted phone calls
1.
1.
Which of the following have you done to stop or end a call regarding a telemarketer, political vote seeker, bill collector, etc? Screen through an answering machine
33%
•
507 votes
Don't pick up, because you aren't expecting a call (For those without an answering machine/caller ID)
25%
•
395 votes
Use caller ID
46%
•
712 votes
When they ask for head of the household/lady or man of the house, tell them there isn't one
13%
•
195 votes
When they ask how you are, you tell them about 20 minutes of your bad day
5%
•
73 votes
Answer in a language that they don't know (Spanish, German, Yiddish)
5%
•
78 votes
Threaten to call BBB or FTC or FCC
5%
•
77 votes
Keep telling them you can't hear them
6%
•
100 votes
Tell them that you also work phone sales and want to discuss best phone techniques
2%
•
33 votes
Hang up as soon as they say who they are
25%
•
390 votes
Tell them you are not interested, then hang up
38%
•
596 votes
Lie and tell them something is on the stove, just about to leave, need to change baby's diapers
5%
•
82 votes
Something else
11%
•
165 votes
None of the above
4%
•
56 votes
N/A
8%
•
126 votes
2.
2.
What bugs you more? Straight up telemarketers trying to sell you something
40%
•
618 votes
Political/Election calls that go on for weeks and weeks until the election is over
26%
•
398 votes
Charities
11%
•
172 votes
Repeat calls, when you have kindly explained you have nothing/cannot afford to donate
37%
•
582 votes
Repeat calls, when you have kindly told them not to call anymore
41%
•
632 votes
Bill collectors that call more than once a day
18%
•
276 votes
Someone looking for someone else, but it's always the same person that calls
14%
•
222 votes
When the caller hangs up/call is disconnected when answering machine picks up call
13%
•
200 votes
Something else
5%
•
82 votes
None of the above
4%
•
63 votes
N/A
9%
•
135 votes
3.
3.
Do you think the laws should be stricter? (Especially regarding privacy, how about millions of people call the election candidates up?) Yes, more and/or something else should be done
60%
•
940 votes
You think what's in place is just about right
8%
•
128 votes
There should be no phone restrictions on who is able to call you
7%
•
108 votes
Not sure
14%
•
221 votes
None of the above
10%
•
158 votes
4.
4.
If you have been in phone sales or reached out for election votes as a volunteer, etc are you more sympathetic to this topic? Yes
13%
•
203 votes
No
27%
•
422 votes
Undecided
13%
•
209 votes
Not Applicable
46%
•
721 votes
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