I’ll be glad if this manages to pass the senate - sure, you can sue a telemarketer if they call you after you’re on the ‘do not call list’, but they don’t give out their company names. If they can’t hide their corporate name, it becomes much easier to catch them, file suit, and collect your prize. I’d much rather that they made telemarketing a capital offence, but you can’t have everything.
I doubt highly if the measure will pass. Unless there is a distinction between telemarketing and market research, and then the law is pretty much ineffective anyway.
Politicians will not restrict market research firms. Both Republicans and Democrats depend on market research to gage various races for political offices. The actually want the companies to bother John Q Public at his home to try to get his opinion. The last thing the politicians would want is for their precious market research to go unanswered because it shows up on Caller ID and is ignored.
OK, so if they say telemarketers (companies actually selling goods or services) must show up on Caller ID, and that market research doesn’t… The telemarketers would easily get around this by posing as market research firms. Many underhanded telemarketers already do this by acting as research firms and then once you answer the questions attempt to sell you something.
Even that would diminish the value of the politician’s market research, because the lines would become blurred between telemarketing and market research in the minds of consumers. The consumers would simply not answer “UNAVAILABLE” or similar unlisted calls and further diminish returns on the politician’s market research.
I am willing to bet you’ll see Frosty and family having snowball fights in Hell before anything like this passes.
It’s depressing that this thread should only get 1 reply, I’ll double it.
I HATE TELEMARKEDING
Good work guys.