Slashdot Mirror
"Do Not Call" Violators Fined $1.2M
coondoggie writes "A federal court today spanked two telemarketers with some $1.2 million in civil penalties for violating the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call Rule. According to the FTC, the companies called consumers whose phone numbers were on the Do Not Call Registry without having obtained their express written agreement or having an 'established business relationship' with them. One group's telemarketers also allegedly abandoned many calls, by failing to connect the calls to a sales representative within two seconds after consumers answered, as required by law, the FTC stated. The cases were filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC."
Oh yeah!
are payed to do
are paid to do.
I thought English was the mother tongue in the US.
Sincerely,
your friendly grammar Nazi.
Quite frankly, the do not call list should be abolished. I have worked in telemarketing and the people there were simply trying to make a living selling quality goods. There is nothing wrong with calling people and letting them know about a product. If they dont want it they can hang up, no one is forcing them to buy anything or to stay on the phone. I do understand that for many low income people they may not want to recieve calls for things they cannot afford, so i do think there should be a do no call list for low income persons only who cannot afford whatever is being offered.
The do not call list, to add insult to injury, they actually make it HARD for companies to comply with it. These are often small businesses run by employees themselves, not large greedy companies like the banks who we throw billion dollar bank bailouts at. One would think they would want to make the list easy to access so all companies could get it but on one hand they require it on the other hand they make compliance so hard because to get the database it costs huge amounts of money, whcih often cannot be afforded by low margin telesales companies.
It is so difficult now to make a living with our economy and with the constant attacks on the middle class on this country which is being strangled by a wealthy elite class, who opposes fair pay for workers, unions and aggressively corrupts government and shows the most contempt and hatred for the middle class of this country and our democracy for and by the people, that the do not call list just adds to the misery and lessens the ability of honest low income people to make a living. With a society which is dominated by massive corporations, where it costs millions just to be able to sell to consumers, where all but millionaires are locked out of much of the retailing sector, where advertising is simply outrageous in cost, telesales is often the only affordable way to reach consumers. I have never seen things so bad in this country, and people in such desperation and people so financially devastated they cant buy anything for themselves anymore. The root cause of this is globalisation. This economic collapse would have happened years ago if it had not been artificially propped up with mountains of debt. Its a house of cards and you cant build a healthy economy on debt, you have to make things and people have to receive the money from what they make, not fat cat CEOs. This situation we have is a modern form of slavery with large corporations, there has been increasing consolidation of corporations and corporations are rigging the economic system, society adn infrastructure to lock out everyone else. This is centralisation of power so a few wealthy autocrats can control and manipulate the lives of millions. They will reduce thw working people into abject poverty and they steal money from the working people from the products they make for their own luxury yachts and private jets. While large banks are getting government welfare checks of billions of dollars, these same companies are throwing money at corporate jets, million dollar CEO office redecorating and super luxury high end million dollar vacations. I for one am tired of subsidising a fat cat CEO while every day I see families struggling to fee dtheir children. I am tired of us paying a hidden tax on everything we buy, where much of the money from things we buy goes to some wealthy elite class rather than the hard working peasants whose hands put those things together. The wealthy are strangling us and want to implementat a global third world fascist state with a puppet government which primarily serves to protect their own interests, they want the government to be their own private police force to assert their totalitarian order and give them billion dollar bailouts of taxpayer money. They oppose all efforts of the people oif ths country to be able to hgave a voice and control their destiny, and make the system work for the common good rather than for wealthy elites. They oppose the unions which is the only reason they USA has had