The following reflects the types of telemarketing related organizations we contact on your behalf.  The message we send them is contained in the Private Citizen Directory which includes your notice of unwillingness to freely accept their calls or allow the  distribution of your name / phone number.  It also includes your offer, allowing them to use your time (in answering the phone) and property (your telephone) on a for hire basis of $500 per call.  If they call, they accept your offer.  Essentially, we turn your phone into a 'pay-per-call' service. (The 900# industry generates billions of dollars annually using a similar legal framework.)

*  TSA = Telemarketing Service Agencies (firms that telemarket on behalf of a client)
 

Note: Don't feel too bad about preventing calls made on behalf of non-profit organizations purporting to benefit veterans, police/firefighters, youth camps, etc. Such calls are often made by telemarketing firms whose business practice is to create charities in order to establish a basis upon which to solicit the public. One such firm (The Gehl Group, based in Florida) has over 50 telemarketing facilities across the nation. On average, less than 20% of what they collect actually gets to the non-profits they solicit for. Click here to read a US Appeals Court decision which allowed the Boulder County (Colorado) Sheriff to throw the blocks to Gehl's operation there.