The SBP Archives - Your less than frequent dose of SBP!

What a great concept...the idea that telemarketers can no longer call you up to peddle a credit card with an 21.5% interest rate or getting informed that you've won a trip to Florida so long as you attend a "brief" meeting that peddles timeshares. All you have to do is register your phone number, and you can do so by clicking here.

Now it isn't perfect. You can still get calls from newspapers selling subscriptions, charities, any business where you've had dealings with in the last 18 months, political organizations and marketing/polling firms. And you need to renew your request to be kept on the list every three years. But still, if I think about all the telemarking calls I've gotten in the past, most of them are about signing up for a new credit card or switching to a different phone provider. So if they're no longer allowed to call you up for that, I'm all for it.

But going further...those automated phones with the two second "pause" before you hear a live person lessened the nuisance for me somewhat. If I don't hear anyone after I say "hello", I usually hang up knowing full well a computer just dialed me up. So at least I'm not talking to someone trying to peddle me their junk.

It will be interesting to see how many less phone calls we'll get from this list.