Dear TLS. Yes, I guess I am one of those complainers after all, but it’s really gotten to me. I just slammed the phone down on another one of those annoying raffle phone calls. When is this going to stop? I come home from a hard days work and finally sit down to dinner with my wife and kids and there goes the phone.
It’s got to be my Shvigger, right? Wrong. It’s even more annoying than that. It’s one of those annoying raffle offers which if I don’t purchase right this moment, I will have lost out on one of the biggest opportunities in my life. My, what a scary thought.
I mean, can’t you send me a letter in the mail or email so I can just trash it or delete it instead of giving me a headache from your annoying messages? I sit down with my family once a day, and even that I cant do in peace?
To all you offering me your exciting raffles: Please take my phone number off your list and hit the next number on the list, so that they don’t miss the huge opportunity.
Signed,
Sheesh.
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Seriously, chill out and get a life. You know, the fact that you get to sit down to dinner with your whole family is something most of us only wish we could do. Due to our jobs, the kids have already eaten already. How we wish we could have that quality time. So, don’t pick up the phone during dinner. But, don’t look at your Blackberry either while you are having your quality time. Don’t be a hippocrate. Once you finish your family time, answer your emails and talk to the raffle people. Chill out.
They break the law & call those on the no call list!
Someone needs to stop thus inconsiderate illegal activity.
I hate it too. It has truly escalated lately to a new level with Tzedaka and store sales and chinese auctions!
if you would just once listen to the whole message before hanging up there is an option for do not call. why don’t you try that. there are definitely more then one company putting out these calls so it might take a few tries but each time you do it you’ll notice a lot less calls. good luck!! and next time tell the meshulachim to stop ringing the doorbells 6 times in a row as if there was an emergency after 9:00.
just hang up !
if this is the worst thing happening in your life you are way ahead of the game.
If you can’t have the decency to have a human call me, then please don’t call. You sit with your family and eat supper peacefully and have a computer call me and disturb my family? also the lakewood ones, I already know from the caller ID and ignore and let it go to the answering machine. But these annoying refffels that I could “be de lucky vinner of ten tousand dollas” call from all kinds off different numbers to try to get people to pick up and there is no number at the end to press to be removed from the list. And that is flat out WRONG!
at least the phones rings some times, otherwise it’s so quiet in my house.
I am in total agreement. These people are in clear violation of the do not call law. If not for not wanting to be called a moiser, I would report each and every one of these calls to the proper authorities.
While everyone can agree that it is important to be able to participate in a variety of chesed, there has to be a limit as to what constitutes a reasonable and respectful attempt to contact someone.
In much the same fashion as a Meshulach coming to a door late at night and waking the family, this too is an invasion.
I have far more patience with those who place live calls, (although most of the time when I say that I don’t pledge over the phone, they seem to have selective hearing), because at least they have the decency to treat me like a human being.
I can usually tell when it is an automated call before I pick up. Either because of the no name or strange area code. If for some reason I did pick up, when there is hesitation before a voice starts I know it is an automated call & hang up. Do they really think someone listens ?
whats your number? we will make a machsom l’fi and call you every hour or so, but not talk.
Dey speak about tausends of dolas for de hungarian yeshivos in NY, there accent & voice & dialect of English is annoying enough.
Our local Mosdos need our money.
Charities don’t have to keep the Do not call rules.
BTW be very ware of parting with your credit card nubers to these solicitations, you don’t the voice of the person you are speaking to, nor does a number that you could reverse check show up on caller ID, that number very often won’t let you call in to it.
Just because he can’t speak English properly doesn’t mean they are legit.
I would never part with my credit card over the phone unless I recognize the voice or the number [which may be spoofed] or I called in.
The paper work & police reports later, could take a lot longer than answering the phone to hungarian Yiddish English sounding tape recorder.
you guys hock about every stupid thing some people are really really bored to be blogging about nonsense like this get a life
I actually listened to the end and there was no such message. I pushed the # to donate and asked the person who answered to have my name taken off the list…… IT DID NOT WORK!!!
While it may be true that you can just not pick up the phone, there are many times that I an waiting for a call and have to keep getting up and running to the phone for the same message for the 10th time in 2 days…. The amount of money wasted on these calls….. If I knew who the owner is, I would call him at home every time I get a call and tell him to stop it already.
By the way, I don’t think that it is illegal for non-profits to call #’s on the do-not-call-list
to #$10, I was just kidding. actually I also finds these calls very annoying because I don’t have caller ID and sometimes I run to answer the phone and all I get is a recorded message that my answering machine could answer.
to #12
100% on the money ~ some people who have no problems have to find something to complain about!!
again just hang up
I believe that charities are exempt from the “Do Not Call” list. But I agree, those calls are annoying. I stopped answering, but if they’re doing it for such a long time, they must see that it’s a lucrative way to raise funds. I can’t imagine who is cooperating, but apparantly there are people who buy these raffles! (Or they’re wasting alot of Tzedaka money!)
you are asking to remove your number but you forgot to include it here. You obviously know that here on TLS we can take care of that otherwise you would not have asked here.
please post your number so that we can remove it from the list
oy vey
What a bracha I feel every time that the phone rings and there is a moyssed on the line. I say to myself Baruch Hashem , I am from the givers being called and not the callers
You can eat your spaghetti and meatballs all the time but each time you are asked for tzeddakka is a special opportunity to recognize the chessed in your life.
actually I do want to receive calls for local events, but, I don’t want to receive calls for raffles from out of town mosdos which are spoken in Yiddish or Hebrew, so I won’t put my number on TLS’ site.
To #15
What right do you have minimizing what others are clearly finding annoying??
And what kind of nonsense is telling someone that there are more annoying things in life?
Its like telling someone with a terrible toothache to stop whining because other people have cancer.
to CommonSense says:
point is there are a lot more serious things to complain about, I really don’t care one bit about others who complain about such trival things a a phone call ,which is easily taken care of by hanging the phone up. If you ever had in your life a real problem (health issue ) you would get my point.
Thats exactly the point I’m addressing and you’re clearly not getting.
Trust me I’ve had bigger problems than phone calls during supper and this particular issue doesn’t bother me in the least, on the contrary, the poor grammar and accent is a source of entertainment during supper.
But I can still respect the fact that it may bother others. It’s terribly condescending to have an attitude like yours.