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	tronella 2007-01-20 01:33 am UTC (link)
	So I'm guessing the USA doesn't have Telephone Preference? (link) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sheep 2007-01-20 01:48 am UTC (link)
	... :o runs to sign up Ta! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tronella 2007-01-20 01:52 am UTC (link)
	No problem... there's one for junk mail too, somewhere. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	somnambulicious 2007-01-20 02:03 am UTC (link)
	Actually, we do have something similar. It's worked like a charm for me. There are exceptions for charitable organizations, so I do get calls from the Society for the Blind (or somesuch) asking if I have any old clothes they can pick up and sell in their secondhand store. This I don't mind; it's easier than taking stuff to the charities myself! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thesilentsenshi 2007-01-20 02:52 am UTC (link)
	We don't mind calls from salvation army and organizations like that either. It gives us a chance to empty our closets of stuff we don't wear and aren't in bad enough condition to throw out. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tronella 2007-01-20 12:35 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, I see. I don't think I've ever had a call from a charity, myself... hm. (Reply to this)(Parent)

threegoldfish
2007-01-20 02:07 am UTC (link)

Not exactly and not until very recently (less than five years, I think.) There is a national do-not-call registry, but it doesn't apply to nonprofits and anyone with whom you have a "business relationship". So, for example, my local paper with which I have a Sunday only subscription can still call me 12hundred times to try and sell me the rest of the week for only 77¢!!! even though I'm on the registry.

Telemarkers however are, by law, not allowed to call cellphones. Every so often an email will make the circuit about how Congress is passing a bill that will allow them to call (which of course cost the callee money) and every person over 30 in my office freaks out until I link them to Snopes. Heh.

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	(Anonymous) 2007-01-20 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Wait, you have to pay when someone calls your cellphone? 0.o (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

threegoldfish
2007-01-20 03:57 am UTC (link)

In the sense that I get charged minutes for all times my phone is in use, incoming or outgoing calls. So a telemarketer calling me is using up my minutes. Marketing text messages actually do cost me money because I don't have any on my cellphone plan. I get charged for each incoming text. Landlines are different in that the person placing hte call is the one getting charged (except in the case of 1-800 number obviously) so it doesn't cost you any money to be annoyed.

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	tronella 2007-01-20 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	I see, thanks for the explanation. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-01-20 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	We signed up to that. My house still gets about three calls a day - I didn't notice a decrease at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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