I don’t want to change phone providers. I don’t want roller shutters for my house. I don’t want a pest control company to check my house for white ants. I’m not interested in selling my house. If and when I do want any of these services I’m more than capable of finding a suitable company to provide for my needs.
Are you tired of telemarketers calling you at home? I wonder why it is that they always manage to call at the most innapropriate time. Do they have a secret camera installed in my house so that as soon as we sit down to dinner they can phone us to push their products?
Australia will one day have a National Do Not Call Register to help reduce unwanted telemarketing calls. Unfortunately the Do Not Call Register Bill 2006 was only introduced into Parliament around a month ago on the 25th of May.
It’ll be a while before we are able to sign up to the register to stop all those calls about swapping telephone providers and the like.
In the mean time you can reduce the number of calls to your home by signing up to a register set up by the Australian Direct Marketing Association. Signing up won’t stop all calls but it should reduce the amount of calls you receive. If a marketer is a member of ADMA they will be informed that you don’t want them to call you. Click here to go straight to the relevant details.
Well done ADMA.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Thankfully this scourge has yet to hit South Africa. It’s coming, I know – and I dread the day!
Whoa – I am so glad I don´t have a phone at home. I just have my cell phone and there calls like that are rare – too expensive. But they come in nonetheless from time to time.
I cannot imagine that some people really fall for it.
Over here a lot is tried to be sold to cell phone users over TV. Download this sound, download that screensaver. It´s so expensive but the kids fall for it.
I wonder where they get the money for it?
Restrictions are to come, finally. Parents will be able to limit the downloads.
But will the kids learn that way?
Technology is developing so fast!
Can you imagine once people are able to put their name on the list and stop telemarketers from calling them, how many more calls the people who AREN’T on list are going to get!!
We get a lot of telemarketers particularly from ph & internet companies. I’m not usually one for hanging up on people, but sometimes it’s the only way they get the message “I’m not interested”.
sometimes it’s tempting to be rude so they get the message but i usually just say something along the lines of
“thanks but i am not interested” and leave it at that
but the timing factor can be impecable sometimes can’t it
when you just sit down to watch tv or eat dinner as you said Rodney
quite annoying but they have to do what they have to do i guess
uh, has your phone rung yet with the Nicole Kidman/Keith Urban wedding invite? if so, please take pics …
*grin*
No invite for the wedding yet. I know that they want to keep the exact details a secret until the last minute but it’s getting late. They haven’t even sent me a plane ticket yet to get to the other side of the country. 🙂
I like the way that politicians have been conveniently exempted from the Do Not Call Register!! ie, put your name on the register and Senator Bloggs can still phone you and ask for your support at the next election.
Thanks for pointing me to this page! I knew about the no-call register, but not the option to opt-out before it comes in. So thanks.
My Dad’s response to the telemarketers is to tell them upfront that he will charge them a listening fee of $100/hour for his time. That usually ends the conversation very quickly.