help with a REDICULOUSLY persistant group of telemarketers?

I work in an office that receives calls from all over the state of wisconsin, and various other states i know we have contacts in. recently, we have been receiving calls from a telemarketing group, called PKT Yellow Pages. they have been calling MINIMUM of once a day (sometimes up to four times a day) wanting to "verify our listing on their website". this has been going on for about a month and a half. i have told several of the callers that we are not interested (as im absolutly certain that it is no one we deal with, nor can i actually verify that they are a real company). and it is a real person, not a recording, so i know SOMEONE heard me. Now, unfortunatly, due to the nature of our business, we cant put ourselves on a no call list. some of the places we do associate ourselves with (our phone company, electricity, and what not) do use telemarketers, so we cant just outright block our number. i also do not have the option of having the number the Yellow Pages place is calling from blocked, because they are calling from as far away as india. ive gotten calls from them originating from 5 differant states as well. so, is there anything i can say to them that will make them stop completely? no other telemarketer we have ever dealt with is this persistant. so im wondering if the sheer amount of times they have called is enough to threaten some sort of harrasment? because 1-3 times a day is too much, i dont care WHAT your trying to sell me, especially if i have told them that we are not and never will be interested. help please? these calls are negitivly affecting our business, because of how often they come through, and the international numbers are starting to run up our phone bill i have already asked them to remove us from their listings. i have asked them about five times now total. im going to try asking for their federal id the next time they call though because this genuinly is becoming that big of an issue. i typed in the name that they did give me of their company, and did reverse phone lookups on all the phone numbers i could and cannot verify that it is a real company, so maybe if i ask them to prove it, they will bugger off. thank you for suggesting that, i didnt know i could ask for that. keep the answers coming folks, i want some backup just in case this federal id thing doesnt work. the fact that they call all the way from india sometimes is what is making me worry that it wont oh, and to the first answerer, we cannot put our business on a do not call list. we already have tried that but phone numbers from companies we do associate with were having issues getting through to us because of it

9 months ago - 2 answers