Other things can be done and should be done to take care of this problem. If you do not want anymore calls from the company tell them to take you off their list and by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 they have to accept your request. On top of that, those same statistics estimate that overall consumer penetration of telemarketing adds up to an unbelievable 47.5 million households. To combat these numbers, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has launched a Web site and toll-free hotline to deal with the pestering calls. We all can agree that telemarketing is annoying.
Nobody likes a telemarketing call.
They call during dinner, they even call on Sunday evenings. With Nixon's plan, maybe we can finally get a day of rest from these leeches. Nixon has promised that names placed on the list will stop recieving calls on July 1. The plan is not perfect though because there are exceptions to the rule. It seems there are always exceptions to the rule these days.