Yep just for inquiring about a service legally defines that as having a prior business relationship and can then call you for a period of time. I think the last time I looked it was something like 18 months. Such bullshit. Makes you not even want to research a company.
I worked for a telemarketing...ahem telefunding firm, as they liked to call it, for 5 years and worked on their automated unix and I3 dialers. They worked very hard to follow all of the do not call rules and regulations, or else pay the thousands per reported and proven violation. On top of the national lists, there are also lists for the DMA, the state, and then we kept lists for each of the clients and sometimes each group of campaigns within a particular client. So before the files went onto the dialers they were scrubbed by several lists before any calls were made. However, 90% of the company's calls were for non-profit and political companies and very few commercial companies. Non-profit and political as we've seen explained here are exempt from using the national lists as well as any companies with a prior business relationship with a consumer, but out of the "goodness of their hearts" my company would still honor the lists of people that told them to go to hell or they wanted taken off the list. It boggles the mind how many people would still listen to these calls and give money to these organizations. So for some reason telemarketing is still a very profitable business despite these no call lists. Without going into exact details that might get me in trouble, there are so many lies and deceitful scripts that are read thousands of times daily that cause people to continually fork over millions helping these organizations. I just wish the do not call lists could do even more than they are doing now. I remember one Christian evangelist asking for a SECOND jumbo jet to fly above the clouds of terrorism. I wasn't there more than 3 weeks after that...
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Yep just for inquiring about a service legally defines that as having a prior business relationship and can then call you for a period of time. I think the last time I looked it was something like 18 months. Such bullshit. Makes you not even want to research a company.
I worked for a telemarketing...ahem telefunding firm, as they liked to call it, for 5 years and worked on their automated unix and I3 dialers. They worked very hard to follow all of the do not call rules and regulations, or else pay the thousands per reported and proven violation. On top of the national lists, there are also lists for the DMA, the state, and then we kept lists for each of the clients and sometimes each group of campaigns within a particular client. So before the files went onto the dialers they were scrubbed by several lists before any calls were made. However, 90% of the company's calls were for non-profit and political companies and very few commercial companies. Non-profit and political as we've seen explained here are exempt from using the national lists as well as any companies with a prior business relationship with a consumer, but out of the "goodness of their hearts" my company would still honor the lists of people that told them to go to hell or they wanted taken off the list. It boggles the mind how many people would still listen to these calls and give money to these organizations. So for some reason telemarketing is still a very profitable business despite these no call lists. Without going into exact details that might get me in trouble, there are so many lies and deceitful scripts that are read thousands of times daily that cause people to continually fork over millions helping these organizations. I just wish the do not call lists could do even more than they are doing now. I remember one Christian evangelist asking for a SECOND jumbo jet to fly above the clouds of terrorism. I wasn't there more than 3 weeks after that...