Telemarketers reach beyond the grave for those who don’t pay special do-not-call fee
Attn: Surviving Family Members
The Direct Marketing Association will put a recently deceased loved one on a special “beyond the grave” do-not-call list so telemarketers won’t continue to bother you with dinner hour calls for people who aren’t even alive anymore. Of course even this isn’t free and they charge $1.00 for each person who dies to be put on the list. While $1.00 is insignificant it is still galling that even in death telemarketers can’t waive a fee. One would think that they would want dead people off of their lists; how likely is it that a dead person will want to buy new life insurance or refinance their house? But alas, telemarketers are happy to get anyone on the phone whether or not the person they originally called for is still with us. Not very nice.
Other Independent Sources telemarketing postings: The LA Times telemarketers not telling the truth to subscribers (now there is a big surprise) and “When I said ‘Do Not Call’ I Meant it“.
You see, we don’t like telemarketers.
trackbacked: Wizbang Mudville Gazette
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October 4th, 2005 at 6:52 am
But if you were on the national do not call list to begin with you would be fine right?
October 4th, 2005 at 10:28 am
I’m on every ‘do not call’ list in existence and my phone still rings off of the hook with companies with “pre-exisiting” relationships or claim to be non-profit. I wrote about one such “debt relief” company that claimed to be non-profit.
My guess is that if you are dead you want even those companies that supposedly have pre-existing relationships to stop bugging your survivors so that’s what the list is for.
October 4th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
The trick is to live in Pocatello, Idaho. I guess they know that no one out here has money, so they rarely call.
October 4th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
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October 4th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
If they know you don’t have money they’ll target you with low cost loans. You really can’t win with these folks.
October 5th, 2005 at 4:37 am
dead relatives on the do-not-call list. Failure to do so presumably means that they have the right to call the deceased’s household as often as they want as long as they ask for the dead guy. Unreal. [ source ] [0cmts]
October 7th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
dead relatives on the do-not-call list. Failure to do so presumably means that they have the right to call the deceased’s household as often as they want as long as they ask for the dead guy. Unreal. [ source ] [0cmts]