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Judge Rules Against Do-Not-Call Registry
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Posted on 09/24/2003 1:08:49 PM PDT by scab4faa
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To: hadaclueonce
No one has the right to call me without my concent This is as untrue as no one has the right to ring your doorbell without your consent
As much as I dislike telemarketing calls, they are,for the most part, honest, working people just trying to make a living under very hostile working conditions. The five seconds it takes me to tell them I'm not interested is a small price to pay to keep them out of the welfare line.
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posted on
09/24/2003 1:39:25 PM PDT
by
PaulJ
To: contessa machiaveli
Harassment is already legal, federally and on the State level. It is already illegal to call people for solicitations if they previously told you not to call. Enforcement of this may be a problem, but adding more govt is definitely not the answer to the problem. If you've seen the full details for the plan, exemptions, costs, requiremnets, etc, you'd see that this was a monster in the making.
To: secret garden
From a post I made a couple of weeks ago.
1-877-779-3974 Have fun!
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posted on
09/24/2003 1:39:36 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
To: Professional
legal, illegal, duh.
To: Radix
Copyright infringement, vs someone calling you on the phone? Try again.
I want a law agains sushi cars. Those are the little japanese cars with all sorts of gadgets, ugly paint jobs, and performance enhancers. I hate those cars, especially if they have the loud bass music. Where's the law on that!?!
To: Professional
I want to be left alone, they do not pay my phone bill, I want them all to rot in hell.
Since by law we cannot hunt telemarketers down and kill em, and burn their houses and salt their land, the government and its laws is our only option.
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posted on
09/24/2003 1:43:18 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding sheltlands..)
To: CDHart
I agree with you. As distateful as a profession as this, it still allows millions of Americans to feed their families.
To: Live free or die
so does prostitution..
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posted on
09/24/2003 1:45:08 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding sheltlands..)
To: Live free or die
Since by law we cannot hunt telemarketers down and kill em, and burn their houses and salt their land, the government and its laws is our only option. Are you this tough when a Jehova Witness or someone selling magazines knocks on your door? Or are you only like that when you don't have to face them?
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posted on
09/24/2003 1:45:58 PM PDT
by
PaulJ
To: scab4faa
Previous thread.
(However, I don't consider this thread to be a duplicate. There is quite a bit more information in the article)
To: scab4faa
HOW TO STOP TELEMARKETERS
The most valuable thing that telemarketers have is time. They have to pay people to make all those phone calls and the best thing you can do for them if you don't intend to buy anything is to hang up on them. They can then call the next person until they eventually find someone demented enough purchase their junk.
But suppose everyone who gets a call from these pests listens carefully, asks for details and generally wastes their time before hanging up. It immediately becomes about ten times more expensive for them to do business. Most of them would go out of business in a week.
So whenever I get a call or message I am always polite, I listen and keep them on the line as long as I can. Often I invite them to call back in half an hour (once I got about 6 callbacks one night from a telemarketer soliciting funds for an alumni association).
Sure, it's time consuming, but I figure I'm doing the world a favor.
To: Professional
Sometimes people support bad, dangerous, idiotic laws. This was such. And rightly so, the courts hopefully will never allow the govt to control who gets to call you. That is NOT the responsibility of the govt. But why shouldn't I have the ability to control who calls me?
To: BlazingArizona
Because you don't have the cheese.
To: Dan Evans
That will just keep you on their list. Better telling them that you don't want to be called, but thanks anyway. Be sure to tell them to put you on their do not call list. If they call again, then ask to speak with the manager. A reputable company, 99.9%, will honor your wishes. The last thing they want is an escalated problem.
THe phone company has a variety of phone products to stop solicitors. If you haven't chewed THEIR heads off already, I'm surprised they haven't told you. Qwest is really good at this, and I never get calls anymore, when it used to be a real problem.
To: BlazingArizona
You do. With caller id. Even the barely-free market responded to your cry for help.
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posted on
09/24/2003 1:59:05 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: PaulJ
This is as untrue as no one has the right to ring your doorbell without your consent If you have a sign posted on your door reading "NO PEDDLERS OR SOLICITORS", then any peddler or solicitor who rings your doorbell is trespassing.
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posted on
09/24/2003 2:01:01 PM PDT
by
supercat
(TAG--you're it!)
To: hadaclueonce
IGNORE 'Professional' he is all over the DNC list threads. He is just a STUPID salesman. Go sell something to someone who cares, and yes we still want your home number you a-hole!
NO MORE CALLS!
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posted on
09/24/2003 2:04:33 PM PDT
by
JimFreedom
(My patience is growing thin)
To: PaulJ
when I go to the door naked, they leave...and believe it or not, they don't call back..
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posted on
09/24/2003 2:06:30 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding sheltlands..)
To: Professional
Enforcement of this may be a problem, but adding more govt is definitely not the answer to the problem. If you've seen the full details for the plan, exemptions, costs, requiremnets, etc, you'd see that this was a monster in the making. Since the national Do Not Call list signup period began, I've been gettng a lot more calls from telemarketers than before, most of them computer-generated recordings that, unlike the starving-artist types you defend, are not impressed by whatever I might yell back at them or by any instruction to "put me on your do not call list".
Furthermore, they have started to leave messages on my machine, which never happened in the past. If I've been out of the house for the day I have come home to as many as eight of their messages stacked up on my machine. It's as though they have decalred war on the consumer and are trying to get back at us by blowing out the phones before this list goes into operation.
Okay, let's save ourselves the complexity of setting up a DNC list. Let's ban telemarketing in all forms, by anyone, under any circumstances whatever.
To: PaulJ
Are you this tough when a Jehova Witness or someone selling magazines knocks on your door? Or are you only like that when you don't have to face them? There's no comparison. You can see who's at your door and can refuse to answer the bell.
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