National Do Not Call List: Telemarketers Will Be Back If . . .
Washington - AP: Here we go again ...
Are you one of the millions of people who originally registered their home and cell phones in the National Do Not Call Registry back in June 2003? Numbers registered on the List are valid for five years and will start dropping off next June if the numbers are not re-registered.
It's been wonderful, peaceful and a pleasure to live without those phones ringing off-the-hook disrupting with unwanted callers and annoying solicitations. That's about to change if: you and I don't re-register.
Representative Mike Doyle (c) Pennsylvania believes the public should not have to keep re-registering, and is introducing legislation this upcoming week, with bipartisan support, to make all registrations permanent. -- "I don't understand why Congress didn't think to do this the first time around. It seems so simple: register once, and re-register only when a phone change is needed."
There remains standing issues: those groups exempt from the List, Charitable Organizations, Survey Companies, and Political contact. -- Companies that you have established a business relationship with or purchased from - can continue to call for 18 months after the last purchase, payment or delivery.
Where appropriate to counter these individuals or companies from contacting you further . . . when called, do not hang up. Ask: "to have your name and number taken off their calling list effective immediately." Many computerized calls allow you to press number 2 on the phone pad to be removed from a companies list. Non-compliance could mean $11,000 assessed for each violation. -- Many individuals have indicated they hang up in anger...this does no good, as you have just delayed the inevitable, another callback.
To file a complaint or to register again visit: http://www.donotcall.gov/ or call (888) 382-1222. The process is easy and quick and takes less than five minutes. Remember: an email will be sent back requiring confirmation on your end before activation can take place. If your still having problems you can contact the FTC's bureau of consumer protection in your local area.
CeCe Day Hill (cgh) Jane Doe Chronicles (c) 2005-2007 - All Rights Reserved
CeCe Day Hill (cgh) The Jane Doe Chronicles (c) 2005-2007 - All Rights Reserved
Are you one of the millions of people who originally registered their home and cell phones in the National Do Not Call Registry back in June 2003? Numbers registered on the List are valid for five years and will start dropping off next June if the numbers are not re-registered.
It's been wonderful, peaceful and a pleasure to live without those phones ringing off-the-hook disrupting with unwanted callers and annoying solicitations. That's about to change if: you and I don't re-register.
Representative Mike Doyle (c) Pennsylvania believes the public should not have to keep re-registering, and is introducing legislation this upcoming week, with bipartisan support, to make all registrations permanent. -- "I don't understand why Congress didn't think to do this the first time around. It seems so simple: register once, and re-register only when a phone change is needed."
There remains standing issues: those groups exempt from the List, Charitable Organizations, Survey Companies, and Political contact. -- Companies that you have established a business relationship with or purchased from - can continue to call for 18 months after the last purchase, payment or delivery.
Where appropriate to counter these individuals or companies from contacting you further . . . when called, do not hang up. Ask: "to have your name and number taken off their calling list effective immediately." Many computerized calls allow you to press number 2 on the phone pad to be removed from a companies list. Non-compliance could mean $11,000 assessed for each violation. -- Many individuals have indicated they hang up in anger...this does no good, as you have just delayed the inevitable, another callback.
To file a complaint or to register again visit: http://www.donotcall.gov/ or call (888) 382-1222. The process is easy and quick and takes less than five minutes. Remember: an email will be sent back requiring confirmation on your end before activation can take place. If your still having problems you can contact the FTC's bureau of consumer protection in your local area.
CeCe Day Hill (cgh) Jane Doe Chronicles (c) 2005-2007 - All Rights Reserved
CeCe Day Hill (cgh) The Jane Doe Chronicles (c) 2005-2007 - All Rights Reserved
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