Tired of Your Answering Machine ID reading "Unknown Caller" ?


You get a call and the person on the other end says:


"Hi, I'm [insert name] from Public Insight 
and we're a national research firm. . ."
 
or

"Hi, I'm [insert name] from Opinion Research. . ."

or

"Hi, I'm [insert name] from USA Poll. . ."

or

"Hi, I'm [insert name] from Golden Apple Research. . ."

You tell them to take your name off of their calling
list or you tell them that you are on the DO NOT 
CALL list but neither response will be effective. 

For one, the DO NOT CALL list does not apply to 
telemarketers masquerading as phone survey
 companies like the company you have most likely 
have received the call from. You need to write your
congressman or senator to have the terms of the list
revised to include phone survey companies. 

In all likelihood, the company who called you was probably
Cherry Communications in Tallahassee, Florida. Cherry
Communications does a lot of cold
survey calling for Republicans and recently they
have been conducting "energy issues" surveys. 
These "energy issues" surveys are really phone 
ads for ConocoPhillips, Inc., which is an oil 
company seeking to sell itself as an environmentally
friendly, consumer conscious company that does not 
gouge its customers.

Tired of getting these phone calls? Tired of getting
phone ads disguised as surveys?

Call Cherry Communications @ (850) 561-3600 and tell
them to stop. 

You should also write or call your congressmen and/or
senator and have them introduce legislation to keep
Cherry Communications from annoying you with their
phone ads. However, be forewarned that if your elected
representative is a Republican, you might be ignored
because in all likelihood, he or she has probably used
Cherry Communications in the past to make campaign calls.