TeleBouncer Tele Bouncer TB1000 Block Telemarketing Calls
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While TeleBouncer blocks telemarketing calls from ringing any home telephones, this product also offers many other privacy features and benefits, having little to do with telemarketing calls.
TeleBouncer 3-Way Call Screening System
Features:
Stops Do-Not-Call List Exemptions such as:
Existing Businesses
Previous Businesses
Charity/Nonprofit
Political
Polls/Surveys
Calls Within Your State
Exempt Industries such as Banks, Credit Cards and Long Distance calls
4 Modes of Use
Telemarketing Mode: Blocks telemarketers without even ringing your phone. Also plays a brief no solicitation message to turn away telemarketers. All callers may leave a message on your home answering system.
Do-Not-Disturb Mode:
All callers are silently directed to your home answering machine. Urgent callers are requested to press a button to ring through. Ideal for daytime sleepers, family or study time, etc.
Caller ID Mode: Phones will ring once as you receive Caller ID data on your Caller ID display. After this your caller is screened like the telemarketing mode. Any unavailable caller who rings through is a wanted caller.
Standby Mode: When TeleBouncer is in the standby mode, no call screening occurs and all of your telephone products work normally.
In addition, TeleBouncer can be used as a single line Home/Office Call Attendant, allowing incoming call classification with distinctive ringing, and blocking Junk FAX and Telemarketing calls to the Business. In addition, the Do-Not-Disturb Mode is ideal for small business meetings.
While the National Do-Not-Call Registry has been generally successful, the significant Do-Not-Call Registry exemptions has only reduced the number of telemarketing calls to these households, not eliminated them. The most recent election's political calls to all households clearly reinforces the impact of such exemptions.
Thus TeleBouncer continues to have value, even to those households on the Registry, since calls from the National Do-Not-Call Registry Exemptions will be blocked. TeleBouncer will have even greater value for the larger number of consumers who have not yet listed their numbers with the Registry.
A. National Do-Not-Call List has significant Exemptions
Exemptions included calls from:
- Businesses who have existing business relationship
- Businesses that have had business relationship in the past 1.5 years.
- Businesses who have been contacted for a business inquiry in the past 3 Months.
- Charitable and Non-Profit Organizations, including 3rd party solicitors.
- Calls made from within your state (Registry and FTC deals with interstate commerce)
- Political Fundraising and Political Campaigns
- Polling Surveys
- Banks
- Credit Card Companies
- Long Distance Companies
- Airline Companies
- Insurance Companies
- Federal Credit Unions and Savings and Loan Co.
B. TeleBouncer provides Function/Benefits unrelated to Telemarketing:
- Distinctive Ringing
Distinctive Ringing occurs when TeleBouncer is in the Telemarketing Mode. When a caller presses “1”, “2”, or “3”, TeleBouncer rings a telephone as follows:
Caller Presses “1” - One Long Ring
Caller Presses “2” - Two Short Rings
Caller Presses “3” - One Short and One Long Ring
This feature enables the user to know who is being called, or the identity of the caller. For example, Mom and Dad can tell their children to tell their friends to press “2” when friends call. Thus Mom and Dad will not answer any calls when they hear 2 short rings. In another application, the wife tells all her friends to press “2”, and the husband tells his friends to press “3”. Thus husband and wife can determine who is being called, when the telephone rings. As a last example, Mom is told to press 2 when she calls her children's home. Thus the children will always know Mom is calling when she presses “2”, and the two short rings occur.
TeleBouncer can also add value to a single line small Home/Office environment.
Many Home/Office businesses report they are frustrated by not knowing how to answer a single line call, especially when their Caller ID information is “Unidentified”
With Distinctive Ringing, user can address incoming calls with screening announcement asking callers to Press Ring Numbers “1”, “2” and “3” to classify the incoming call. For example:
“Welcome to XYZ Company, please press extension “1” for the operator, extension “2” for Sales, and extension “3” for Marketing information, or stay on the line to leave a message” Or:
“Please press “1” to reach members of the home, or “2” to reach XYZ Company, otherwise please leave a message.”
The small Home/Office users can then determine who should address the call and how to answer the call based on the distinctive ringing.
TeleBouncer can not only stop telemarketing calls from wasting time at the Home/Office, but can also either stop Junk FAX calls to the Home/Office, or allow receipt of Home/Office FAX calls silently.
By requiring all FAX callers to press “1” to access the FAX machine, all automated Junk FAX calls will be eliminated.
By connecting the FAX machine anywhere on the Home/Office Line, and switching the FAX machine to answer on FAX tones ONLY (Not on a ring signal), receipt of all incoming FAX calls and messages will be silent. In this configuration, TeleBouncer answers the call silently. When the local FAX machine at the home detects the FAX signals from the remote FAX call, it will answer the call. TeleBouncer will detect that an “Extension” is in use, and disconnect itself from the line. This eliminates Junk FAX calls from ringing and disturbing the home in early hours (i.e. at 2AM), and reduces the stress at the Home/Office, since there is no ringing and no action required to receive a FAX on the single Home/Office Line. .
- User Can Select Who Can Leave a Message
The user can define who can leave a message on their home answering machine.
- Only callers who ring through can leave a message. This eliminates bothersome telemarketing messages on a home answering machine. - OR --
- All callers can leave a message.
This item is new in the original package. It will be appropriately packed in a box for shipping and the approx. shipping weight is 3 lb. The shipping quote provided by the Shipping Calculator below includes insurance.