Re: Do-Not-Call Works!

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:03:34 -0500, Bill Woessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>> SBC/PacBell (my phone service, god rot them) called me twice after the
>> do-not-call list was effective so I turned them in.  I just got a
>> notification dated November 26 that my service had been changed: 
>> "Customer requests no sales calls"
>
>This is not a violation of the do-not-call list rules.  You are a customer 
>of SBC so they're allowed to call you at their leisure.  It sucks but it's 
>the way it is.
>
>--Bill


Bill, you are absomutely, 100% wrong on this matter.  

Q: My number is on the National Do Not Call Registry. After I bought
something from a company, a telemarketer representing that
organization called me. Is this a violation?

 
A: No. Even if you put your number on the National Do Not Call
Registry, a company with which you have an established business
relationship may call you for up to 18 months after your last purchase
or delivery from it, or your last payment to it, unless you ask the
company not to call again. (In that case, the company must honor your
request not to call. If they subsequently call you again, they may be
subject to a fine of up to $11,000.) Also, if you make an inquiry to a
company or submit an application to it, for three months afterwards
the company can call you. If you make a specific request to that
company not to call you, however, then the company may not call you,
even if you have an established business relationship with that
company.

If you do not want to put your number on the national registry, you
can still prohibit individual telemarketers, one by one, from calling
by asking them to put you on their company’s do not call list.