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Telemarketing is sometimes very annoying. Sometimes I want to smash the TV.
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Yeah, telemarketing is a real problem! It's the most annoying me thing about tele.... Hope one day some people will bring it to the death. Thanx for opening this topic
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Political solicitations are not covered by the TSR at all, since they are not included in its definition of “telemarketing.” Charities are not covered by the requirements of the national registry. However, if a third-party telemarketer is calling on behalf of a charity, a consumer may ask not to receive any more calls from, or on behalf of, that specific charity. If a third-party telemarketer calls again on behalf of that charity, the telemarketer may be subject to a fine of up to $11,000.
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Verizon is constantly adding
Verizon is constantly adding charges and services that we never ordered . Then they promise to remove charges but they never do and start a late charge which they add a fee and this has been going on for over a year. please help?
DISH Network leave me alone
Dish Network set up a "sting" operation for me and gave me a false name, visa card, ssn and address so that I could give that to the telemarketer and set up an account. Once I got the account number, I could give it to dish and they would then be able to identify the offender. The joke is that when I gave the info to the telemarketer, their own computer showed it to be false and the computer would not let them set up an account. Hence the sting operation was a complete joke. Lets all get together and get a law firm to file a class action. Good luck.
how do you stop telemarketers for non profit
Where do you report them if they continually disregards demands from being removed from their list
Stop telemarketers before they start calling
First of all you need to know 'what am I doing to have these calls made to me. When you apply for a credit card, loan, bank account, or anything where money if involved. you are setting yourself up to be called and not just from the company you are dealing with. You have now TRIED to establish a business
relation with that company and even if they can't help you one of their associat companies may. If you apply for something and you will...check the box that states you do NOT want unsolicitate calls or info.
If you are getting a lot of calls from bank and other financial institutions...STOP the credit reporting agencies from selling your infomation...YES they sell your info and that is probably where it starts for most of you...So do yourself a favor....Call 1-888-567-8688 This is a direct link the ALL three major credit reporting agencies ...follow the steps and you canstop most of these telemarketing folks from calling you. Remember...Don't be an ASS. Politely ask to have your name removed from the companies call list. But remember that when you fill out an application you are asking for something from someone and you may start getting calls UNLESS you check the box to not have unsolicited call ....YOU may have to ask where that box is....Good Luck to all p.s. The number is for real and it is automated...
Dishnetwork sales calls kept on coming violating the do not call
Over the past year and half we have received almost daily sales calls from the Dish Network (Echostar Communications Co) even though our home phone number has been listed on the National Do Not Call Registry and the Texas DO Not Call Registry for the past three years. We have told the Dish Network caller repeatedly that they have violated the do not call law. They seemed not to care at all. In fact they seemed to be foreign based (in China) and didn’t even know such a thing as a do not call list. For the first year, we reported each incident to the National Do Not Call Registry website. Nothing happened. We received no feedback or inquiry from the National Do Not Call Registry. The calls from the Dish Network kept on coming. In December of 2006, we filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau of Denver (BBB). Dish Network responded to this complaint. A woman from the TCPA department of the Echostar LLC called me and requested me to set up a sting operation to catch the caller. I agreed. The woman gave me a fake SS# and a Visa card#. I did the sting operation the next day on the new Dish Network caller. The Dish Network person sent a letter to me and BBB informing us that they did an investigation based upon the sting operation and was able to identify the caller as someone from a company based in Maryland called Total Marketing Solutions. In the letter Dish Network promised that no more calls starting February, 2007. Yet, right after this letter, the call kept on coming until today. I called the woman in the Dish Network headquarters and told her that there were new calls and I did additional sting operations on the new callers. I asked her to investigate. She never did. Apparently they did the investigation after the first sting operation just to be able to send that letter to BBB to close the case. Once the case was closed, they would do nothing to investigate the new calls even though they promised in writing of no new calls. After two months I couldn’t get any response from the woman in the Dish Network who set up the sting operation. I called another person in Dish Network whose name appeared in the letter to me and BBB. I was told that the woman I worked with had quit. I filed complaint with the Texas Department of Consumer Protection, the Colorado Department of Consumer Protection, the FTC, and the FCC. None of they seemed to be able to do or did anything to stop the Dish Network from violating the do not call list. In the middle of 2007, I had enough and filed a second BBB complaint. Again, Dish Network responded to the complaint by doing another trace on one of a dozen or more of the sting operations I did. They reported the caller as one company based in California in another letter to BBB and me. Again Dish Network promised to stop the calls after July of 2007. Yet the calls kept on coming. I refused to close the second BBB complaint and insisted that Dish Network explain what they had done and would do to these law breakers and what measures they would take to make sure the calls would stop. Dish Network ignored my requests. After a while BBB closed the case and informed me that there was nothing more they could do since BBB had no enforcement authority. It seems to me that the Do Not Call list has no teeth at all. A company like Dish Network can simply ignore it and get away with it with abandon. Recently, we are getting calls every evening from Dish Network at 7:10 PM CST like clockwork. I am pretty sure it is an automated calling setup that just cycling through a phone list. I don’t know what I can do to stop them.
Dish Network Telemarketing
I am a current subscriber of Dish Network. I have been receiving an average of 1 to 3 telemarketing a day for add on services. I have received calls as early as 5:30 AM and as late as 10:30 PM I have been touch with Dish Network customer service (so called). They claim that since I am a customer, they are exempted from the do not call list which I am on. Also, even if I terminate the service, they claim that they can still call me. Further, they have admitted that they release my account information to "independent contractors" which they claim they have no control over. Any suggestions on how to stop this nightmare?
Will All Telemarketing Calls Stop If I Register?
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt107.shtm
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?
No. By purchasing something from the company, you established a business relationship with the company. As a result, even if you put your number on the National Do Not Call Registry, that company 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.
An established business relationship with a company also will be created if you make an inquiry to the company, or submit an application to it. This kind of established business relationship exists for three months after the inquiry or application. During this time, 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 I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?
No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.
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Are calls from political organizations or calls soliciting for charities covered?
Political solicitations are not covered by the TSR at all, since they are not included in its definition of “telemarketing.” Charities are not covered by the requirements of the national registry. However, if a third-party telemarketer is calling on behalf of a charity, a consumer may ask not to receive any more calls from, or on behalf of, that specific charity. If a third-party telemarketer calls again on behalf of that charity, the telemarketer may be subject to a fine of up to $11,000.
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What about telephone surveys?
If the call is really for the sole purpose of conducting a survey, it is not covered. Only telemarketing calls are covered — that is, calls that solicit sales of goods or services. Callers purporting to take a survey, but also offering to sell goods or services, must comply with the National Do Not Call Registry.
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Stop "Nonprofit" Calls
I don't know why callers can represent themselves as nonprofits and barge into the privacy of one's home and start asking for donations.
There is no reason in the world they should be exempted from the do not call list, since they are simply after your money. Maybe their lobbyists have bought off our lawmakers to allow this sordid invasion of privacy, but as they say, "there ought to be a law against it." The idea that they are exercising their freedom of speech is ludicrous. I told one of these callers what I thought of her and she hung up before letting me exercise MY freedom of speech.
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