Telemarketers

I believe that everyone has heard of the “Do Not Call List”, which is a attemp to stop/reduce the number of telemarketers. I admit this has reduced the number of calls to my home number, at least initially. But over the 6 months, there has been one company that calls the house on a frequent basis. The new spin with this particular debt consolidation company is that they say I selected something on the web that requested them to call me. There is no way I requested them to call and even if I did, I want them to stop now. Since I am not home very often, my lovely wife has the unfortunate task to tell this company repeatly, to stop calling and remove our names from their list. Which has not stopped and from what I hear, there is at least 1 call a day.
I know that we are not the only ones to suffer from these very annoying calls, but just recently I read an article were a man in California was fed up with these Telemarketing companies and wanted to do something to make it stop. He found a provision in the law that put the “Do Not Call List” into affect that specifically is directed to unwanted calls. Basically the law says that a violation of this provision is when a company is told to stop calling and continues to call, which there is a penalty of $500 for a violation. So he has started to sue these companies and has won some cases. I don’t want to write about everything in the article, but if you want to take a look here is the link:

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/02/suing_telemarke.html

I feel that in the US there are way too many people out there that are “SUE HAPPY” and most cases are ridiculous. Like the woman that sued McDonalds because she spilled hot coffee on herself. Of course the media does not help with the widely reported initial ruling that she won and then the almost non existing reports that the ruling in the case was overturned. She never did get a dime. I believe that most stupid warnings on products you see today. Like "Caution: Hot" or what ever the McDonalds cup say now (I never get coffee there). Of course it hot, it is coffee. Do the soda cups need to say "Caution: Cold"?

But back to the subject at hand, if this is only way to stop Telemarketers. Then maybe people should look into this possibly perusing this action. Now I am not going to start to sue every telemarketer that calls the house or suggesting anyone to do that either. But this particular company that keeps calling my house at the frequency they do, I feel that it is almost at the point of considering this harassment. Maybe this type of action is needed to try stopping the calls.

By the way, if anybody has any other solution to stop the calls please let me know. The only other way that I can think is to convince this company they would be better off without my business, which I was thinking of telling them I have no job, $500k in debt, and have filled bankruptcy twice. But it is probably a scam, so that won’t even work.