Californians Swamp Anti-Telemarketer Site

from the go-get-'em dept

In the last day or so, I received about five emails from friends telling me that California was letting people "pre-register" to be on the national do-not-call list. So, is it any surprise that the California site has been absolutely swamped with people clamoring to be left alone? Yet, the telemarketers will continue to battle this in court, under their strange belief that they have a constitutional right to bother people. Even if you think it is legal (and anyone who does and isn't somehow employed by the telemarketing industry would be a rare find indeed), this should be the final sign to the industry: people don't want what you're selling and they hate it when you bother them. Any business that is based entirely on the concept of bothering its customers has a business model that needs to be changed.