How-to: Stop of Telemarketers from Calling You
Posted by Jon Lee in How-to, Offtopic, Personal, tags: advertising, How-to, ndncl, telemarketing
The Canadian government has just opened registration today on the National Do Not Call List. Basically, by putting your name on this list, you will significantly reduce the number of telemarketing calls to you. Registration is completely free and will take effect within 31 days.
It won’t completely eliminate all unsolicited calls however. The following organizations will still be able to call you:
- Registered charities asking for donations
- Newspapers selling subscriptions
- Political parties and their candidates
- Companies that you have dealt with in the previous 18 months (i.e. to follow up on an order)
Aside from those exceptions, you can expect all other telemarketing calls to stop. If you don’t want the above calls either, you can ask them to put you on their own do not call list whenever they first call.
I was a little weary about this at first but having gone to the site, it is a legitimate site owned by the Government of Canada so I do think it will work and will be enforced.
United States
If you’re from the US, you guys are a little bit ahead. You’ve had the Do Not Call Registry since February 2008 which works in much the same way.
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