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Topic: End Cold Calls
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Aphrodite
Knowflake Posts: 4992
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Registered: Feb 2002
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posted July 03, 2003 10:22 AM
 
In case you missed all the buzz late last week, I wanted to make you aware of the new national "Do Not Call" program. Sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission, you can register your phone number on a "Do Not Call" list that telemarketers must screen before calling. For a Yahoo story go to http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=business&cat=advertising_and_marketing.
To register a number call 888-382-1222 or do it online at www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/index.html.
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anafaery
Knowflake Posts: 864
From: west coast, yummy rain forest, canada
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 05, 2003 08:50 AM
wow aphrodite, thats excellent. i wish canada would do something like that  i cannot stand people who invade my home to sell me something. its so rude and i have had more insulting people call my house... i tell them im not interested, and ive been ARGUED with about it! i am nice and polite at first but when they start on me, i let it rip! it is just inexcusable to me that anyone can invade the sanctity of my home for the purpose of selling me something i did not ask for nor want. argh it makes me so mad. canada, take this as an example! we need this too! IP: Logged |
Aphrodite
Knowflake Posts: 4992
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posted July 05, 2003 01:57 PM
hi anafaery, yep a "do not call list" is a good thing, hopefully it will work  i've never gotten into arguments with telemarketers myself. the rule they have is that if they get 3 "No"s, they must let the person off. so i just say, "No." telemarketer: blah blah "No, no." telemarketer: "bye!" IP: Logged |
Lunargirl
Knowflake Posts: 1513
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Registered: Mar 2003
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posted September 12, 2003 04:06 PM
Humorist Dave Barry sure has had an impact on telemarketers...
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MIAMI, Sept. 12, 2003 (CBS/AP)
Now it's the telemarketers who are getting the calls, thanks to Dave Barry, humor columnist for The Miami Herald.
The American Teleservices Association was targeted by Barry in his Aug. 31 column.
"This group argues that, if its members are prohibited from calling people who do not want to be called, then two million telemarketers will lose their jobs," Barry wrote. "Of course, you could use pretty much the same reasoning to argue that laws against mugging cause unemployment among muggers."
He urged readers to call the ATA and "tell them what you think" about telemarketers.
"I'm sure they'd love to hear your constitutionally protected views! Be sure to wipe your mouthpiece afterward," wrote Barry, whose column is syndicated to some 500 newspapers across the country.
Thousands of readers responded with a flood of calls to the group's offices, causing the association to stop answering its phones.
ATA executive director Tim Searcy said the added calls will be costly to the group because of charges for the toll-free number (which Barry included in his column) and staffing issues. "It's difficult not to see some malice in Mr. Barry's intent," Searcy said.
Barry hardly sounded apologetic.
"I feel just terrible, especially if they were eating or anything," he said. "They have phones like the rest of us have phones. Their attitude seems to be if you have a phone, people are allowed to call you."
Callers to ATA now hear a recording that says because of "overwhelming positive response to recent media events, we are unable to take your call at this time."
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