Jim Carson

carson wrote on (September 24, 2003 11:49 AM)

Looks like the "Do Not Call" list is on hold for now... the Direct Marketing Association and several telemarketing concerns (U.S. Security, Chartered Benefit Services Inc., Global Contact Services Inc and InfoCision Management Corp.) successfully challenged the FTC's enforcement.

http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/ftc/donotcall92303ord.pdf

Ironically, it's not a huge loss, because the system was pretty rife with loopholes:

Charities
Polticial campaigns
Telephone surveys -- a loophole the size of (ahem) a cruise ship with vinyl siding.
"Pre-existing business relationships" -- A train full of credit card offers. (NB: I noticed I was receiving an awful lot of calls from Charles Schwab in the last three weeks.)

I hope that the 50 million people who signed up for the list will generate some backlash.

carson wrote on (September 25, 2003 1:12 PM)

The DMA's CEO and president interviewed on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/25/cnna.wientzen/index.html

And congressional response (so far):
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/25/congress.no.call/index.html

carson wrote on (September 25, 2003 9:56 PM)

Yesterday, Judge West ruled against the DNC list on the grounds that the FTC needed a legislative mandate. Then the House and Senate gave the FTC that mandate today, only to have Judge Nottingham issue an opinion that the donotcall program discriminates against certain types of speech.

And so it goes...

LIsa wrote on (December 20, 2004 7:13 AM)

you goof!

Why don't YOU send ME $20 to fill out the form?

jim wrote on (December 29, 2004 8:29 AM)

>Why don't YOU send ME $20 to fill out the form?

We have highly-trained, invasive marketing professionals attend to this information, and are unable to outsource at this time.