Do-Not-Call List, Two Years Later

Carl Bialik writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that two years after the National Do Not Call Registry took effect, regulators say the system is working, but only six federal fines have been issued. More than half of registered consumers say they're still getting unwanted calls, according to a recent phone survey. Now, a fresh fight is brewing over which calls are restricted and which ones aren't. Twenty-five states maintain their own do-not-call lists, and many of them impose tougher restrictions on the kinds of calls that telemarketers can make."

Comments

uh...yea

[Tachikoma]

say they're still getting unwanted calls, according to a recent phone survey

I would consider the recent phone survey an unwanted call...so that's kind of self defeating. . . calling peolpe on the do-not-call list to see if they are getting calls even though they are on the do-not-call list

Half?

[wfberg]

More than half of registered consumers say they're still getting unwanted calls, recent phone survey.

I take it the other half just threw down the phone in disgust at being called in a phone survey? Or perhaps half of those surveyed were in coma?

The tricky thing about this is..

[radiashun]

If you have done business with a company they are allowed to call you. It says this on the Do Not Call registration site somewhere. This means that if you stay at a hotel somewhere, they can call you up and offer you those stupid travel packages without violating the law. Asking them to discontinue those calls has seem to work for me thus far, but perhaps I'm just lucky.