National Do Not Call List

[DanielMuffinburg]

@Freiheit

Until they start beaming crap into your brain!

Like in the movie Batman Forever.

[fezwhatley]

i agree with your assumptions, youre not saying anything thats not very controversial. no disagreement here

[eliotn]

@liberty student

@eliotn

Even with a don’t call list, telemarketers just WON’T STOP CALLING!

If there was a free market, a firm could offer to block all telemarketers. But it would probably come at a premium.

People like to complain, but how many would pay 10% more per month to stop telemarketers?

I am sure that there are people that consider it very beneficial to be able to ignore telemarketers.

Still, before I read this thread, I could not fathom how telemarketers would stop annoying calls in a free market.

What I said is relevant to today, not exactly the free market, where even if you’re on the don’t call list, certain people will still call you.

[Byzantine]

The way the common law developed, a “No Soliciting” or “No Trespassing” sign is a prerequisite to blocking the incidental contacts that you are deemed implicitly to not have a problem with by having frontage on the common way. There should be an electronic equivalent, which requires some entity with market influence to enforce, so the disputant is right in that regard.

I got on this list right away, and woe betide the telemarketer who breaches it with me, because I can deliver quite a tirade in the couple of seconds it will take them to react and disconnect the call.

[liberty_student]

@eliotn

I am sure that there are people that consider it very beneficial to be able to ignore telemarketers.

Then there is a market for it.. See how I did that? [;)]

[Jon_Irenicus]

Seriously. On the bottom of my “care” list is telemarketers calling me. If it bothered me much I’d pay to rid of the nuissance. Get a state to “solve” the “problem” though? Not on your life…

[Broken_Window]

@liberty student

One more thing. As a marketer, the do not call list actually helps the firms with something to sell, by qualifying their lead databases. If I have a list of 150,000 phone numbers, and I can sort out the 35,000 on the Do Not Call List, then my sales team only has to make 115,000 calls, presuming that most of those 35,000 on the do not call list would have been difficult to sell, or unlikely to buy anything on the phone…

…People who take positive action to avoid sales men and do not want to be sold are dead leads. So being able to clean those dead leads out of the lists, makes the lists higher quality, and thus more valuable.

I suspect in a free market, firms would pay for the databases of “do not call” clients so that they can increase their performance per lead.

Good observation-- which would be true IF there were some type of barrier to entry for getting one’s number on the list–say, some type of fee which the consumer would have to renew annually. The present system is essentially zero cost to sign up, and once on, the number stays on indefinitely until actively removed from it–which, I’m assuming rarely happens. As a result, I think the tendency is for the accumulation of vast amounts of numbers, a significantly large portion of which WOULD be viable leads from a marketer’s point of view. A barrier to entry would shrink that portion substantially, and the resulting list would be a more or less accurate reflection of which leads would truly be the ones of low value.

[liberty_student]

I have no idea what you are talking about.