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  • (Vanity) Need help with overwhelming JUNK phone calls on land line.

    01/03/2013 7:29:53 AM PST · by Mamzelle · 68 replies
    1/3/13 | Mamzelle
    I need to keep my land line, but I'm about ready to turn the ringer off which means real calls won't get my attention. This all really started at the change of the year, and may have something to do with the small political donations. Maybe. I don't know. But it starts in the morning and ends in the early evening. One is particular is GE Capital and I do absolutely no business with them. I went throught the "don't call" years ago. Anyone else experiencing this?
  • FTC Official Faces Industry Music (Telemarketing)

    06/28/2002 6:37:01 AM PDT · by steve-b · 7 replies · 224+ views
    DMNews.com ^ | 24 June 2002 | Scott Hovanyetz
    PALM BEACH, FL - Eileen Harrington, the Federal Trade Commission's point person on the national do-not-call list and other proposed rules, went into a den of telemarketers Friday and got an earful of complaints. But Harrington, who met with industry representatives for a roundtable discussion at the DMA Teleservices Conference 2002 held here at The Breakers hotel, gave back as good as she got. "You don't have a lot of credibility, to be perfectly honest," Harrington, the FTC's director of marketing practices, told the audience of approximately 50 telemarketers. If telemarketers had adhered to the present rules, which give each...