Dealing With Telemarketers and the Do Not Call List Fail

Here are a couple of posts from another blog I thought you might enjoy:

Part One

The evening telemarketing calls continue at the same pace as before the establishment of the government-backed “Do Not Call” list, and while it’s bad here in small town Ontario, I’m told it is worse in the big city. So it’s time for a different solution.

Call block technology already exists; and I wish to propose we call block all calls from India. Seriously. The entire nation.

It’s not a racist thing; it’s just a matter of dealing with the truth that many, many telemarketing calls originate in this single country. I don’t know anybody in India; I have no friends traveling through India; and I am unlikely to have reason to receive a call from India.

So block the calls. The Do Not Call List concept isn’t working.

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Part Two

Okay, consider this one:  A group of us all get phone calls from XYZ Computer Services offering to do a house call visit and get our laptop or PC whipped into shape.  And we agree that one of us will agree to be the “customer” (quotation marks intentional) and sign up for a service appointment.

And then, when the technician arrives, he is immediately placed under arrest for violating the Do Not Call List.

…So the first thing you’re thinking is, “Wait a minute, the technician didn’t actually place the marketing call; that was done by someone half a world a way, or someone in Arkansas, which is the same thing.”   And of course you would be absolutely right.

But before there was time to sort all that out, technicians for XYZ Computer Services would be quitting faster than you can say Firefox.  And other companies would be rethinking the gross violation of privacy that is currently taking place completely unchecked.

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