Slashdot Mirror
Do Not Call Registry Gets Glowing Reviews
coondoggie writes to tell us that in a recent report to Congress by the FTC, the National Do Not Call Registry got glowing reviews. They seem to be well established now with $21 million in fees in the bank, 22 successful court cases, and an almost 70% approval rating. "In 2007, a total of 6,242 entities paid fees totaling $21,602,003 for access to the National Registry. According to the FTC, telemarketers and sellers can access registered telephone numbers and pay the appropriate fee for that access, if any, through an Internet website dedicated to that purpose. The only information about consumers that companies receive from the National Registry is the registered telephone number. Since the Registry's inception, a total of 18,197 unique entities have paid fees for access to the National Registry. The total amount of fees paid by all entities since the inception of the National Registry through the end of 2007 is $80,629,778, the report stated."
I thought the goal of the registry was to exclude marketers from getting this info? So who gve the glowing reviews?
If you get cellphone spam I truly feel sorry for your personal information, it must be on every bathroom wall in the US.
I have been using a personal cellphone as my primary contact number for the better part of a decade, and to date have only received two spam texts (when I was with Nextel, 6 years ago) and not a single unsolicited sales phonecall. About twice a year, someone dials a wrong number and gets me, to which I politely tell them that no, there is little chance that Joe Bob Jackson Seefus Jr. lives even NEAR me.
Put the television up rather loud, let them talk all the way through their script, agree that all the offers are very tempting (ahu, ahu) and then when you get an opportunity to ask a question, just say: "Do you think I will be able to get social security to pay for that?" ....buuuuurrr!
Posts, MyBio or Sig, may contain satire, sarcasm, bolded nouns be sardonic or even witty & be Church of SD
Correction. The cops are eavesdropping, but they work for the NSA and they don't give a damn about the DNC List :P
A statement that is only technically correct. All of the telemarketing calls I get on my cellphone are recorded messages.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
No one bothers people on cell phones.
But people on cell phones bother everyone.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I have a cousin who actually LOVES to get telemarketing calls, though. He has found all kinds of creative ways to screw with them. He will try to keep them on the line as long as possible, encouraging them with lots of questions and feigned interest, only to tell them "No" at the end (time is money for telemarketers). He will ask them "Hey could you hang on just a minute?" then put the phone down and go watch TV. My personal favorite is when he responds to them with "EXCUSE ME, but I'm trying to masturbate here!"
And all over the world, poor schmucks who are paying their way through graduate school by working as telemarketers get great stories to tell their buddies at the pub.
He's doing them a service!
For security, the MD5 hash of this message and sig is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.
If I had mod points, I'd mark this "redundant". Not the whole article, just the words "telemarketer" and "con-persons".
Massachusetts Volunteer Firefighters Association
...
I hope those bastards burn in hell
I suspect they've got a fighting chance at avoiding that particular fate...
-- "Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"
He explicitly used a sarcasm tag, oddly enough.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
1. Note the quotation marks around the phrase? Thet denotes that it is not my words; I am QUOTING.
2. Your use of the word "begins" is out of context
3. You forgot your <pedant> tag ;)
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
It's true, you shouldn't try to do all those things at once. You might get mayo on the steering wheel.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"