Telemarketers and Bill Collectors often use Predictive Dialers to dial outgoing calls. These are computers that keep dialing phone numbers on a list until they reach a live person. The Predictive Dialer then transfers that call to the first live operator. That's why you hear silence for a while before someone gets on the line, when you answer the phone sometimes. Some of them are bold enough to play a little recording asking you to "Please hold on for an important call!" Right.

Telemarketers and Bill Collectors don't want to pay their operators to dial the phone and listen to busy signals and answering machines, so they have a computer do it for them. The Predictive Dialer is programmed to hang up if it hears a SIT tone, since it knows the line is disconnected. It doesn't listen to what's said after the SIT tone, since it doesn't understand words. The Telemarketer or Bill Collector often takes that number out of their database too, so it won't be called again!

The Telemarketer Stopper!™ plays the SIT tone when you answer the phone. If it's a Predictive Dialer - the line will go dead. If it's a human, they'll hear the SIT tone and then hear you say "Hello" to answer the phone. Generally speaking, humans will ask you what that tone was, but they won't hang up. If you have an answering machine, delay your message for about 1.5 seconds to give the SIT tone time to play before you say "Hi, this is xxx..."

The SIT tone will only be heard when you answer phones that are hooked up after the Telemarketer Stopper!™ There's an "IN" and an "OUT" jack - and it's line powered. If you want it to do play the SIT tone automatically when you answer any phone in the house or business, it needs to be connected where the line comes in before any phones or the phone system.

Our customers keep calling us with the same remarkable stories..."

"It took about a week, but nobody's calling us at dinner time anymore!"

"We had a bill collector calling us every day for something we didn't owe (it was the phone company). We put the Telemarketer Stopper!™ on the line, and the calls stopped after only one day! Then the calls started coming in on our other line (we don't even give out that number). We got another Telemarketer Stopper!™ and put it on that line, and the calls stopped in one day again! It's amazing!"

It worked in our own house!  Donna was on every suckers list there is. We couldn't sit down at dinner time without the phone ringing like crazy. We couldn't sleep late on Saturdays. I finally put one in front of our phone system at the house, and after a week - the calls totally stopped!