Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

It was occasionally amusing to keep them on the phone for about half an hour, and then say "of course, you realise this is an international call, there's no way I can buy what you're selling, and in fact this is costing you vast sums of money". Until I realised that they thought "international" meant out-of-state, and that they thought New Zealand was a town in Southern California.

And bulk buying international minutes to non-regulated destinations costs you less than a consumer pays for interstate call within the US. So if you time is worth less than $2 an hour, go ahead :-) If the event you describe happened 10 years ago, you actually did some good. Pete