They call multiple times a day.  Very annoying.

You are an a***ole. Nobody cares for a***oles. Go back to your telemarketing job and stay off of this website for non-a***oles.

They called, just now from 719 623 4411 10:26am Feb 18 2014, 1st time a woman left message on my voice mail looking for me by name.
2nd time they called, I did not answer, I don?t answer the phone any more I am sure if it?s important they would leave a message, if it sounds important but not sure I look up the No online just like now see if there are people like you are complaining.
If it?s all good then I called from a block phone, I used to answer the phone the more I answered the more calls from different No I received many calls from places with heavy accent (mainly Indian males) so I went to police, they tell me there is nothing they can do and these companies/people are way more sophisticated than they can handle.
Let me tell you all?.This is all about gathering data about us.
You be surprise how easy they can profile you by just calling you and hear your voice.
the way you handle annoying calls, also they repeat the call to see if you are alone or the only one answers the phone and what time of the day you answer or goes to voice.
They like to know if you curios?, will you call back?, does it bother you and so many information by just the way you handle the call and the tone of your voice.
Then they use this to come to your door for (marketing? let?s hope its just marketing!!) or call you knowing you would answer and would not put the phone done on, etc?..
I am just puzzled, as to how we are forced to pay for NSA and many other unknown organization created by government to listen to our conversation and watch what we do where we go who we are friend with.
yet are not interested to go after these guys/companies and charge them, perhaps they could use the money for updating their system instead of asking us to pay for it.
If I don?t pay for my traffic ticket surely I be tracked, arrested and force to pay, or just take my money. Next time police calls asking for donation, I will give them Mr. Graven Austin No

We've received calls from this group before, and when I looked at their number, it was different each time.  They're really starting to piss me off.  I've never answered their calls, nor any others if I don't recognize the name on the caller ID, or if it says "private caller" or "Out of Area",  The whole Do Not Call list has become a joke.  The calls stopped for a while, but they're back to the same frequency as before.  

They have called here 5 times in the past 2 hours.  No one would talk to me.  I tried the 800 number above but it is now disconnected.

this number calls my office at least 10 times a day!!!!!!!
I want it to stop!!!

I get several calls a day from this number.  They never leave a message.  

They call several times a day. Earlier this week I answered. It was someone trying to get us to sign up for a free publication that we already receive. I told the caller we already get the magazine and I hung up.

Today, the calls have resumed.  They are now on our phone system's block list.

F-You

Start keeping a horn sports horn next to phone. It scares away big Black  Birds form my back yard.

I get numerous calls from this number, so DNC doesn't work

Called again. Just keeping track of these guys. 6/26/2013

They call a few times a day and they do not talk when we answer.

I just went online to Time Warner (my phone carrier) and blocked that number from calling in. Call your phone carrier and see if you can block the number.

This number has been calling me multiple times per day lately.

I don't answer calls if I don't recognize the caller ID, which in this case says GRAVEN AUSTIN.

Their web site claims you can email your phone number to <dnc@gad-inc.com> and they will stop calling.

I tried it. I bet they start sending me junk email now! lol

This is a telemarketing business founded by Jason Graven.  It is located in Colorado Springs, CO.  Here is Jason's LinkedIn profile:


Current
Director of Sales & Marketing at Graven Austin & Drake, Inc
Education
Northwest Missouri State University
Connections
132 connections
Jason Graven's Experience

Director of Sales & Marketing
Graven Austin & Drake, Inc
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry
February 1998 ? Present (15 years 5 months)

Jason Graven's Education

Northwest Missouri State University
Agricultural Business


I'm somewhat surprised that this loser has a college education but then see his major was agriculture, so he ought to be bothering cows, not honest citizens.


The business is known as GAD and it has a website where it will give you quote for its telescamming services.

Hey, Jason Graven, do you like making money by scamming other people?  How will you feel about this on your deathbed?  What did you accomplish in life?

Pretty sure the call I just got from these guys was a phone number fishing program as it hung up 5 seconds after I picked up the phone. Apparently they do this a lot; their BBB score is B- for their advertising/sales. They are just another company that ignores the National DNC laws.

calls 3 times a day

I just want to be left alone.  

Please leave me alone.

I screen them all.  Who actually responds to these sadomasochists by actually BUYING anything.  In 60 years I have NEVER seen anyone running down the street like a little girl screaming, "I need aluminum siding and NOBODY'S CALLING ME"  God gave most of us brains.  Everyone else becomes politicians or telemarketers.

I have had to take my phone off the hook every evening.........My immediate family know how to reach me in an emergency, and my friends know how to do so if necessary...........these numerous  calls are getting out of hand and no one in authority cares!

Tried to call this telemarketing firm with the number provided but couldn't reach anyone.  Cooks Illustrated magazine was foolish enough to hire these sleaze bags to sell books to its subscribers.  I get calls to my Do Not Call registered number everyday and their agents hang up on me when I ask to be removed from their list.

Listed as a Colorado caller. No message no response when I answered

I have just rec'd two calls from (719) 219-3885 and claim to be an attorney in Kansas.  I have been traveling out of state so the person who is receiving these calls say that this Aston Graven leaves no message when told that I am not available.  I am glad to see this web-site and wonder what is going on.

I assure you that if I ever decide to subscribe to anything I will make certain that your company doesn't make dime one from my subscription. Stop harassing and infuriating your customer base.

Get yourself a phone that blocks calls.  You get 50  numbers to block.Your phone rings once,then it goes silent.  Blocked.  I bought mine(Panasonic) at Christmas 2012, and it's really reduced my time spent waiting for these morons to leave a msg or not.  They do try alternate numbers, but  they get blocked too.  It also gives me some satisfaction that the robos can be defeated. I've still got another 30 spaces waiting for illegal callers. It's not completely foolproof, but it does reduce soliciting calls by 90%.

Why hasn't our government done something about these guys? If they are convicted felons under house arrest, as one stated who worked for them for 2 days and left because he feared for his safety, we need the FBI to investigate their activities and arrest them for harassment.

Call from Carl, Liz Keller's assistant from a company called Divergent. He would not tell me what the call was regarding and wanted to speak with our CFO. He would not give me his email address. When I told him our CFO was not available, he said he would call back later.

Their Sales Manager is Vannessa Murphy and her email is vmurphy@gadtelecom.com and the company Presinent is JimGraven and his email is jimgraven@gadtelecom.com .

Maybe you can reach them that way.

Great Post!
I love the idea of the DO-Call List!  But, that would mean the collapse of an entire industry, the costs of which are passed on to the innocent consumers who buy stuff on their own without coercion, they just buy what they need.  (and if all those under-educated phone operators lose their $2.50/hr jobs, they'll be out on the street snatching purses!)

I'm afraid the brain donors who run these outfits will never realize this is a terrible Business Model: Annoy people day after day until they break down and give up their credit card number, then sell the phone number to others so they can follow suit.  And charge extra for people who answer the phone, and double for people who order something.

It's so RIDICULOUS.

PLEEEEZE check back in in 6 months and tell us how many OTHER magazine subscriptions you have been roped into.

And if they offer to put your Social Security Number in a sweepstakes drawing, politely DECLINE!!!

Seriously, couldn't they just send you a little post card?  Solicitation phone calls are SO ANNOYING!  And IMHO, unsolicited contact could be actually dangerous if it is really someone checking to see is anyone home before they come over and break in.  Not to be paranoid, but there have been reports lately of "knock-and-rob" break-ins, where if they knock and no one answers, they break in.  I'm not kidding.  Anyone got a spare Doberman I can borrow? LOL

So the "Prior Business Relationship" would include I bought a tube of toothpaste from Ralph's; Ralph's bank is BofA; BofA is also the bank for the Window Replacement company who wants to sell me something.  Somehow the Window Co. interprets that as a "prior relationship" and gets ahold of my phone number and we're off to the races.  This sort of incestuous relationship should NOT be included in any definition of
"Prior Relationship".  For that matter, neither should the toothpaste manufacturer be able to solicit me to try their Shampoo products, even though the supermarket has info collected on my buying habits which they can provide to competing companies (for the right price) so THEY can bug me.  Fine.  Gimme a coupon occasionally that persuades me to try a different brand of toothpaste, BUT DO NOT CALL ME!!

Since I DO NOT have ANY relationship with Austin Graven, AUSTIN GRAVEN SHOULD NOT BE CALLING ME!!!