Just for the record.
I just noticed that you were referring to a call from the AT&T credit card people. AT&T sold their credit card business, including the name, back in the1997/1998 time frame. I recall Smith Barney Inc. was one of the player, but I'm not sure who ending up buying that segment of AT&T's businesses.
-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)
It is real easy to file a complaint. All you need is the phone number OR the name of the calling party and some information from you. I have used it twice(pretty sure it was for the same company each time) a couple of months apart. We used to get several calls a day before the list. Now those two are the only ones I have recieved since putting my name on the list.
Rob
Marijuana, cocaine, crack, LSD, underaged drinking, pre-marital sex, extra-marital sex, jaywalking, speeding, driving without a seatbelt...
You didn't think making it illegal was actually going to stop it did you?
I just stay on the net all day. Keeps the phone calls down. :)
I hate to hear my phone ring, really. It's always
Hardly ever anyone else. Nobody except my boss or a spammer *ever* calls to talk to me.
Probably not a tape. Probably a computer voice mail thing. "If you want information about making your penis larger, press one now. If you want a free vacation to Wally World, press two now...."
I get a *lot* of those from poly-ticks. Um. Politicians.
What's your number, I'll and talk to ya! Same thing here!!!
So far, it's worked really good for us. Only violators thus far have been two messages from a consumer debt service that appears to be trying to do an end-around the intent of the law because it is a "non-profit" (but of course, they do charge a fee) and MCI. We have (as of last Saturday, make that 'had') MCI long-distance, thus MCI felt entitled to call us and offer us local as well as long-distance despite the fact we are on the no-call list because they have an existing business relationship with us. My understanding of the intent of the law regarding existing business relationships was to allow companies to call regarding accounts, etc. without having some idiot go after them for violating the no-call list, not to allow a company with whom you do business bother you for more business. Seems a pretty stupid thing to do, you know your customers don't want to be bothered, but you feel you have the sacred right to bother them anyway since you have an "existing" business relationship? Anyway, it motivated me to get in gear and switch LD carriers, a task I was planning to do for quite a while anyway.
Yeah, that trick is even better than before no-call when the occasional idiot solication would ring, then when you answered the phone, would give the message, "please hold for a very important message". I don't like being put on hold when I call someplace with which I *need* to do business, and they think I'm going to hold for a @#$% *sales* call?
I signed up right off the git go and my phone has only rang twice from telemarketers since. They were both informed that they would be reported and they were. I hope they enjoyed their $11,000 fines.
Frank
I've always wondered about the spammers who lay on the munged words, say replacing a letter with # or $ to skip around someone's filters. Do they really think popping that header up is going to entice someone who doesn't want to hear from them anyway?
An awful lot of modern business seems to fish for customers with irritants--I'm getting less and less able to watch pro sports these days because of the commercials. And the PSA spots are getting more aggravating by the week: I really don't appreciate seeing a PSA on smoking from a talentless rap group (probably redundant) or a bunch of grinning teenage goof-offs creating problems around an office building any more than I want to buy Depends or Ensure.
Charlie Self If God had wanted me to touch my toes he would have put them higher on my body.
I signed up the very first morning we were able to. I kind of lost track of where the national DNC list is with the legal challenges, but the North Carolina attorney general has said he is going to enforce the NC list irregardless, which gets its data from the national list. Bottom line: I don't get any calls anymore. As far as I'm concerned, the list has been a great success.
I've never understood why the telemarketers fought the list so hard. Why would they want to talk to me, when I'm so hostile to them? If I want to buy something, I'll go look for it myself. I'm not going to buy something off the telephone sight unseen. That just ain't gonna happen.
Mark & Juanita wrote: > Seems a pretty stupid thing to do, you know your customers don't want
Well, that worked out well for them, didn't it? It's amazing to me how poorly they seem to understand people. A similar call motivated me to cancel all of my long distance service; I no longer have a LD carrier. I've been using onesuite.com (2.5 cents/minute anywhere in the US/anytime) for a while, but hadn't gotten rid of the LD carrier because I didn't know I had the option of not having one at all.
Anyway, that phone call tore it. I called BellSouth and cancelled AT&T. I've used onesuite (like a calling card) exclusively ever since.
I havn't had *one* call since the list went into effect. Was averaging a couple a week before that.
The taped messages have been illegal since the original TCPA was passed, circa 20 years ago.
Phone companies, politicians, and charities are exempt from the do not call list.
I use the following:
Good Luck Everyone.
BTW thanks for all the help on the Rec. I read regularly and have learned allot. Keep up the great posts.
It works great for my cell phone, however my home phone number was changed recently so I get called 5 or 6 times daily including a afternoon Thanksgiving call soliciting Directv now on those rare times I don't glance at the caller Id im nice but that time I just hung up on the fellow.. Steven
Mike Iglesias asks:
Citibank owns most of the larger Mastercard and Visa Portfolios for consumer cards including the At&t Universal card and any Associates account. At&t wireless is a seperate company and would not be considered an existing relationship.(or likely even a prior one)
Robert Bonomi responds:
Jeez, someone should have told the twits who called me and played, or started to play, a tape about every week after I moved into a city: they were pitching septic tank treatments, so it might no have penetrated.
Charlie Self If God had wanted me to touch my toes he would have put them higher on my body.
My CC company used to call too. During one campaign they were agressively marketing something or other and calling quite frequently. My wife asked them politely TWICE. When I answered the THIRD call that week I told them any further calls would result in canceling our
2 CCs, and moving our checking/savings/CDs to another bank. That was about 2 years ago - no calls since (Kudos to Chase).-Chris
On a related note, I noticed that around Nov-Dec of 2003 the number of junk emails (Spam) that I received decreased dramatically. My filter used to get about 40-50 each day, and another 10 or so would sneak past the filter to my inbox. Since that time the filter gets about 5 per day and maybe 1 or 2 more sneak by. I wonder if they were scaling back in advance of the Spam law that went into effect on 1/1?
-Chris
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