The National Do Not Call List… What You Should Know…
Today marked the Canadian debut of the National Do Not Call List. If your like me… your not a fan of getting a phone call while your busy watching a good move/t.v. show or eating dinner. Well… it took a while but the Federal Government finally released a service to register your phone number on the “do not call” list. The program has been implemented in the US for a while now, and has seen successful reviews from the average American consumer. In Canada, it should be noted that even through you may register your number on the list… it doesn’t mean you will “never be bothered” by marketers. For example, political parties, charitites, newspapers (wonder what powerful lobby influenced that one?) and “companies you already do business with” are still allowed to call you.
If you take a quick poll of the numerous calls you get in the early evening… you might be suprised how many are from companies like your bank, local newspaper or charity… not to mention your local political candidate running for office.
Regardless… do yourself a favour and register your number on the National Do Not Call List here
September 30th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
We’ve had the Do Not Call list here in Australia for a couple of years.
Whilst it does seem to slow the torrent of calls, it doesn’t stop local businesses outsourcing their telemarketing to our Sub-Continental friends.
So now you’ll not only still get telemarketing calls, they’ll be calls in foreign accents over rubbish VoIP lines, meaning you won’t have any idea what they’re talking about anyway!
October 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The program works great here in America for consumers yes, but when you have 100 phone numbers in a business, you’re just out of luck.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Yea the US system is pretty neat. I signed up a while ago and the calls have cut back. The annoying part for me is someone used my cell number and filled out online forms - which they look at as consent to call me. Other than that I don’t have any unwanted calls!