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Yes, I've had those fake calls from whoever, purporting to be from Amazon. We have a landline in addition to our cell phones. Years and years ago, a service called NoMoRoBo (short for, No More Robo Calls) started up, and we were able to sign up for free on our landline. (Now I think they charge a fee for both landline and cell phones). We still use it. It catches about 90% of all spam calls. What it does is ring once, then goes to another number where the spam caller hears a message stating to ID themselves in some manner. If they can't the call is dropped. 95% of the time when our phone rings now, it stops after one ring. Spam calls still do get through, though, so it's not 100% effective, but close. On the spam calls that do get through, the caller ID identifies the spam calls as "Unknown Caller", and usually with the same first 3 numbers of our area, so we don't answer. I'd say 95% of any LEGIT calls we get come through our cell phones now anyway.@Madetoshop wrote:
Yes, they were soooo obvious they were not from Amazon, lol.
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Yes, Nomorobo has been a help to us. But they don't stop the calls that have our neighborhood numbers from getting through. We just don't answer the phone with any "Unknown Name" ID.@cooldude581 wrote:
nomorerobo is the name of the company. it charges a fee to force callers to input a numeric code to be connected.
@AZwolfman wrote:
Robocalls, solicitation, and research calls are all annoying solicitation calls and should be banned....
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My best answer to these questions is that I feel all research surveys should be "opt-in" only. It has been possible for many years to opt to be on research survey mailing lists. I used them to earn small amounts of money during the extended period that I was unable to leave the house to work at a regular job. Even though the pay was low, they indirectly led to my discovery of mystery shopping. I would answer your last question, "Always."@Shop-et-al wrote:
...How do you feel about developing or testing apps that will screen text and e-mail offers of research "opportunities" that you might not want to know about in future? Would you be willing to share your thoughts about apps that are dedicated to surveys and which people self-select? There are some such apps now, but the surveys I have seen are shorter and different that the work I now perform. Additionally, these have some offer of a gift card or other financial prize. Should future research modes always, sometimes, or never offer financial incentives for participation?
@AZwolfman wrote:
Robocalls, solicitation, and research calls are all annoying solicitation calls and should be banned....
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@AZwolfman wrote:
Whether you are soliciting information or sales by knocking on a door, or you are soliciting information or sales by cold-calling someone with whom you have had no prior business or invitation, you are still soliciting without an invitation. I can put up a "No Solicitors," sign on my door and hope that solicitors will respect it, but I cannot do the same to stop the telephone solicitors.
@Shop-et-al wrote:
... I would much rather know how your participation in surveys (that you mentioned in another post) led indirectly to your discovery of mystery shopping.And because inquiring minds want to know, do you feel that your participation in online surveys has helped, hindered, or had no impact on your mystery shopping endeavors?
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@sandyf wrote:
.... Every person who is calling me is getting paid like you are Shop et al but how can I distinguish between a legitimate research project when they tell me they are not allowed to say who is sponsoring the research. I do medical research so I do not mind answering those for no pay on my part but often medical research can be the company trying to sell me a back brace or something and hooking me in by pretending it is research. So I feel for you Shop et al if the place you work for is not only a legitimate company but doing the research for research purposes only to be entered into a respected journal somewhere as a paper. But you must realize it is difficult for us to really know who is calling for our "opinions" and separate them from those calling to hook us on a sale and calling it research..