If you dont like telemarketers go on the DNC list and quit crying like a little girl...its easy just go to www.dnc.gov and get on the list....but you cant sue them untill you do go on the DNC and then only after 31 days....read the laws......

I feel sorry for the poor salesman that's trying to feed his family and wastse 2 hours of his families time and money coming out to a false adress. It's not his fault that the compay had a telemarketer call you. So next time you get a call like that please just tell them you are not in the market for such products. Please don't waste some poor guys time that is trying to make a living and feed his family. It's not fair and it's not the company that looses out, it's the poor sales man. Also these types of companies have quotas and by doing that you put a mark against the sales man that goes against his closing ratio so he could loose his bonus, or worse yet, his job.
Please don't treat your fellow Americans this way. Times are hard enough for everyone without being screwd by you.

Do companies have a right to not respect an individuals request for no further telephone contact?

I actually do commission only sales. So I do empathize with those salespeople. But no one forces me to sell any particular thing, or to sell it any particular way that is not ethical. I don't sell just anything, I am careful to only work with companies whose products I can genuinely trust. And I don't blythely force myself on prospects who clearly want nothing to do with my presentation.

The biggest problem with the telemarketing salespeople is that many of them, when informed of the rules against how they are telemarketing, respond as if the rules don't apply to them, as if I don't know what I am talking about when I tell them I have an absolute right to be respected in my wish to receive no further sales calls. Are they innocent because they are just trying to earn a living, and are just doing what their job tells them to do? I don't think so, they have a responsibility to learn about their profession and recognize when they are given illegal work orders.

• Can you believe that I told them I'd have the lawsuit papers ready to serve on whoever shows up, and they were still so desparate for business they still wanted to send someone out to visit!

If I warned them what I was going to do, who is the one wasting the salesperson's time? Me, who is trying to do anything to avoid further contact, or an over eager telemarketer scheduling a visit despite my clear request for no further contact?

Another lovely company, FBK 866-221-8574, has been calling me like clockwork every month trying to sell me their junk. They think it is really funny when I ask them "Why are you wasting your sales time bugging someone who has been guaranteeing you for months that I am more likely to give myself a root canal than I am to buy your stuff?" While some of the salespeople might actually be clueless and innocent, there are too many others who act with some kind of smug assurance that they will not be held accountable.

It is also difficult sometimes to find these companies, so serving their representative at your door with a suit against the company might make a lot of sense. If you later believe that the rep is innocent, you can ammend the suit later to remove the salesperson from being a named party. You might let them know about exactly the telephone harassment that led you to the action of suing them. That poor salesperson at the door might have no idea what the telemarketers are doing at his company, and your suit could be the wakeup call that encourages him to look into problems at the company, and perhaps look for another product to sell.

Times might be tough, and jobs hard to find, but long ago we decided not to excuse the people who were just following orders leading them to do illegal acts.