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Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List
An anonymous reader writes "The creation of a do-not-call list in Canada has run into
trouble. Michael Geist reports that the proposal has been effectively destroyed, with exceptions for just about every telemarketer including businesses, political parties, polling companies, and charities. The government committee apparently heard from the marketers but refused to listen to consumer groups."
Canada is a capitalist nation, just like most modern nations. Just because you live in Canada doesn't exempt you from having your "rights" and concerns over-ridden with the more important rights and concerns of revenue making, tax-paying, politician lobbying private industries.
I've found do-not-call to be *extremely* effective. Have you followed through using your rights under the law? Tell solicitor to never call you again, log the conversation, and make official complaint when they do (which is >$1,000 fine)? Do you inform them that you are on the do-not-call registry?
just do what I did, and get cell plan where you get refund for received calls. I've almost paid my last months phone bill, just by talking with telemarketers. You can easily keep them talking for about 30 minutes by asking everything about the product they're selling.
A) Can you provide a link to the plan you are talking about.
B)Laast time I checked, it was illegal in the US for telemarketers to call cell phones.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Not answering or hanging up quickly is actually the nicest thing you can do for them, short of buying what they're pitching. They are paying for employees and equipment by the minute. Assuming you're not paying by the minute for calls you receive, it's better to answer the phone and give them some plausible reason to hang on ("Oh, you want to talk to Dave! Hang on a sec"). Then set the handset down and see how long they wait. You could keep track of what bs line will keep them waiting the longest.
Get a digital answering machine like the one I have, which will route caller ID blocked calls straight to "leave a message" mode. If you hear the mother-in-law, you can pick up. Or just let her leave a message, if she doesn't like it she'll learn to dial the right number, won't she?
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
No one needs any form of regulation from government at any level as they all create favoritism and don't fix any problem. Even pollution regulations are better controlled by the free market. Heavy polluters get blasted by watchdog groups, cleaner emitters get praised and consumers make the decision who succeeds and who fails.
That has to be the dumbest thing I have read all day. It is no wonder it got modded to +4 insightful.
Companies exist to make money. That is their sole responsibilty. In the vast majority of cases a PR problem will not affect them as much as the increased cost of doing business associated with not polluting. If you think a company won't exchance birth defects in 1000 children for a $2,000,000 increase in profits you are kidding yourself. You are also ignoring history. Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.
I've got a feeling that you aren't too worried though. You can afford to move away from the parts of America where birth defects are staggeringly common. Assuming that you earned your wealth rather than inheriting it (though I'm positive your parents were at least well off) you know better than to believe the drivel you are spuing.
Your selfishness and greed astound me.