Get Me On That List, Quick!
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has launched the National Do Not Call List today, and the rush of Canadians trying to get their numbers exempted from telemarketers’ calls has been so large that the site has gone down a few times throughout the day. According to this CP article, “CRTC spokesperson Denis Carmel said as of 1:30 p.m., more than 223,000 people had register via online and telephone.”
I’m wondering if they’re counting people or telephone numbers. I’m assuming numbers, in which case I can understand because as soon as I visited the site, I registered the home and cell phones of each member of my family (which totals 9 telephone numbers). However, there are a lot of exemptions to the list. Some of them are understandable, such as the exemption for Canadian charities. However some are annoying, such as the exemption for political parties or businesses with which I’ve had any “relationship” in the last 18 months. So if I bought a pack of gum at Wal-[evil]-Mart in June, 2007, and somehow they have my number, I suppose they and their subsidiaries can still get in touch with me.
Get yourself on the list by visiting http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca or by calling 1-866-580-3625
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I was thinking something similar, but my wondering was not regarding subsidiaries but rather parent companies.
So you bought that gum at Wal-Mart. The gum is made by a company that is owned by a conglomerate that is further owned by an international super-conglomerate that owns hundreds of brands you didn’t even know were related. Can they now all phone you?
“Mr. Singh, thanks for your purchase of our spearmint gum. We hope you are enjoying it, and would like to offer you this chance to buy snow tires at a fantastic rate.”
Haha! That’s a great point Gregg. I hope that is not the case.
I love the idea of being on that list! I hate to be phoned by tele marketers.