OK, here is something interesting to think about. ( for me at least. )
I have only one phone number, my mobile phone, and it’s been listed in the Do Not Call Registry for a while. I just verified it. Register yours.
Your phone number with the last four digits XXXX was registered in the National Do Not Call Registry on 6/30/2003. Most telemarketers will be required to stop calling you 31 days from your registration date. Your registration will (or did) expire on 7/1/2008. Visit http://www.donotcall.gov/ to do any of these things: -- to renew your registration before it expires -- to file a complaint
Now in the last 3 months I have gotten more unsolicited telemarketer calls to my phone than ever. I’ve filed complaints on the registry website, with the information asked about the annoyance, and of course my full information. Now if only the government would put some action behind these complaints. I thought companies have to use this list of numbers their not supposed to call in their campaigns? Or are they just using them for numbers to call, like I figured would happen when they created this free list of telephone numbers. It seems like the later.
I think that if your listed in the do not call list, then every solicitation, profitable, non-profitable, some asshole running for office, or telling you about some lame ass reason to not use your own brain and vote a certain way, should be illegal. But of course the schmucks who run things decided to add themselves a nice loophole, and of course made it open to their religious counterparts to bug us for donations.
Back from the tangent, the call I recieved that set this off, from a snail mail spammer, was for a domain I chose not to renew this year. From all the domains I own, I get crap in the actual mail pretty often, for “renewing my domain”, well, by their definition of “renewing”, it moves to their services. Basically their trying to steal the domain registration from another provider, by making the layman think that they are simply renewing their domain.
If I have to pay for every bit of traffic that my phone consumes, be it text, or voice, I should be able to choose whom is allowed to contact me. I hate I recieve someone’s mis-text and then I get charged 10 cents. Why should my carrier care? They are making money hand over fist by not allowing these privacy restrictions. AT&T Wireless before they were bought were nicer about this, and let me have free incoming text, so it didn’t bother me. And I don’t use my voice plan enough as it is, and I’m on the lowest paid plan, still paying too much for what I really use though.
[tags]donotcall, telephone, telemarketing, do_not_call_list,annoyances,rant, personal, technology [/tags]
