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Summary: Finally no daily morning telemarketing wakeup call!
Review: I got an unlisted/unpublished number hoping to avoid telemarketers. But after 2 years of daily 9 AM calls (they never even left a message on the machine and if I picked up there was silence) - likely from the same rotten telemarketing company - I saw this product and thought it was worth the price just to elminate this one call - and it did! It also stopped the other telemarketing calls I had been screening out with the answering machine. No more phone ringing unless it is someone I want to talk to! Someone mentioned it might block out calls you want from companies that might use auto-dialing - well, if you are expecting an important call from a company, just unplug the TeleZapper for a while until you get it. Actually, I suspect I can just plug it in once in a while to stop any new crop of telemarketers, but it seems to have eliminated all of the current ones. You don't even need to mess with your phone/answering machine wiring - just plug the unit directly into a phone jack. This product is not a perfect solution, but it does address a complicated problem. I'm giving the product 4 stars because I suspect the price is inflated.
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Summary: It works - sometimes too well.
Review: I have had my Zapper since Christmas 2002. It is wonderful! When you first install it your phone may ring when a telemarketer calls, but they have disconnected by the time you answer. After about two weeks the calls stopped completely. Charities and survey companies still call, which is the same with the 1-800-Do-not-call list. Now if it would just get my son's girlfriend to stop calling every 20 minutes, we would have it made.
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Summary: Love that zapping!
Review: I have had the TeleZapper installed for a bit over a week now and I now look forward to the phone ringing because I know that I will likely be zapping another telemarketer. I have already numerous times answered the phone only to find dead air - a sure sign that I've zapped a company. I have it set to produce its three tones; it sounds exactly as the tones you may have heard when you've reached a disconnected/out of service number. Although people don't expect to hear that tone when they call me I don't find the "noise" annoying; I rather enjoy it because I know what it is accomplishing. I simply warned my family and friends about the tone and all is well. I recommend this item!
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Summary: zap the telemarkets off your phone
Review: I have had this for a month. Love it. Have not had any computerized marketers call me. It has been great. I recommend it for anyone. A great gift idea. I plan to purchase it for my familys christmas present. Great for the elderly, they don't have to answer the phone for those darn sales people that they really do not want to talk to anyways.
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Summary: It really works, just.....
Review: I have to admit I was think of cheating and recording the tone on my answering machine message instead of buying this. But I digress. It really works! I got this one day after 16 calls at which point I logged straight on and bought it. I now maybe get one unwanted call a day that is usually a wrong number or someone who doesn't use an autodialer.Pros
It works. Cons (and reasons for only 4 stars)
It annoys some callers.
It sometimes doesn't beep until 7 or 8 seconds into the call which if it is call you want can be annoying and also can register a 'hangup' type call on your machine. (My machine ignores messages under 3 seconds to remove hangups)
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Summary: You can do this with one sentence for free
Review: I haven't bought one of these because if you simply say "take me off your list" the telemarketers are required by law to do so -- or pay a hefty fine. Since they don't want to risk being caught calling people who have asked to be taken off their list, it's easier/cheaper for them to just do it. Try it ("take me off your list") -- it works. The calls will quickly fade away. My wife and I virtually eliminated all telemarketing calls in a few weeks -- for free. In every case the telemarketer immediately said, "Okay, thank you" and hung up.
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Summary: It works, but who knows how well?
Review: I know that this thing will disconnect some sales calls, and I have been told that this will have a cumulative effect. Supposedly, as my number is removed from the lists of current telemarketers, it will not be placed on new lists generated by these companies. That sounds good, but will it really work? Meanwhile, you have your choice of one loud beep, every time you pick up the phone, or three loud beeps, every time you pick up the phone. Neither setting will disconnect all of the incoming telemarketers, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the literature to explain which setting is the most effective. It's taken a while, but I've finally gotten used to waiting a second or so before bringing the phone to my ear. It's a simple thing to do, and it beats the heck out of having that B E E P in your ear, every time the phone rings. I have to tell you, I feel pretty stupid about spending this much money when the phone rings, and it's another sales call, but after six months of use, I have to admit that it seems like there are actually fewer sales calls. I haven't kept count, but I know that I'm finding no one on the line when I answer the phone, a lot more often than I get a salesman on the other end of the line. Does that indicate success? I dunno! How are you going to count the number of calls you DON'T get?
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Summary: This really works!
Review: I must admit, I didn't expect it to, but it really does! My unsolicited calls *almost* disappeared. BTW, I do not have a problem with a "beep" noise when I pick up the phone -- it just sits there and does its thing. If only I had one for the spam in my email inbox...
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Summary: This really works!
Review: I must admit, I didn't expect it to, but it really does! My unsolicited calls *almost* disappeared. BTW, I do not have a problem with a "beep" noise when I pick up the phone -- it just sits there and does its thing. If only I had one for the spam in my email inbox...
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Summary: A pain.
Review: I never liked this device. For one thing, intruding calls still come through (your phone rings). For another, all it does is attempt to erase your number from the dialing computer's database (there are lots of these computers though!).
In that it might have been successful, but there are two better solutions. For one, you can get "Privacy Director" from the phone company. Anyone who calls you from a non-caller ID enabled phone must state their name and you get to hear their recording if they choose to ring through; you can then decide to take their call or not. My own experience with that system has been wonderful, though some friends and relatives whose phones are not caller ID enabled (this problem is becoming more and more uncommon) have griped about it a bit.
An even better option now is to just list your number with the "do not call" list mandated by the gov't. Just logon to www.donotcall.gov and list your number(s) there, and soon your phone will stop ringing during dinner.
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