{"id":3926,"date":"2012-08-25T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianbudgetbinder.com\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2025-02-23T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T08:24:15","slug":"canadian-national-do-not-call-list-its-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalskyweb.co\/canadianbudgetbinder.com\/2012\/08\/25\/canadian-national-do-not-call-list-its-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian National Do Not Call List It’s Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAY GOODBYE TO THOSE ANNOYING PHONE CALLS<\/h3>\n

Unwanted calls are the worst and there is never a good time to talk to someone you have no interest in talking to.<\/p>\n

Now, there’s something Canadians can do about these phone calls whether it’s your home or wireless phone. It’s fairly straight forward system to take a chance on in Canada and it’s called the “Do Not Call List” but does the list actually work?<\/p>\n

Yesterday was the breaking point for me when I figured there has to be a way to stop these people from taking valuable time away from me, even if for merely seconds.<\/p>\n

If you add up all those seconds over the course of a year even if it adds up to one hour, that’s one hour I’ll never get back.<\/p>\n

I’ve allowed these annoying phone calls to take that hour away from me. Sounds silly but at one point or another you have done the same.<\/p>\n

Telemarketing Complaints<\/h2>\n

\"Canadian<\/p>\n

Who do you call with all these telemarketing complaints<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who are these people calling that are trying to convince us we have a virus on our computer or to buy something we don’t need?<\/p>\n

Telemarketers and scammers, that’s who!<\/p>\n

Telemarketing is a means of direct marketing to the customers, similar to someone who comes right to your front door. The only difference is you can’t chase a telephone call like you can a front door salesman.<\/p>\n

Now I’m not suggesting that, I’m merely stating the obvious.<\/p>\n

Telemarketers are people who sell or market products mainly through unsolicited phone calls from a list of phone numbers to potential customers.<\/p>\n

They can multi-dial so if you get hang ups at your house that’s because some other donut has answered the call and yours got dropped. (Be Happy)<\/p>\n

There are 2 types of telemarketing Inbound which is when you call a call centre to place an order or ask questions about products etc, but it’s you making the call.<\/p>\n

Then there is the outbound call centres who contact you to convince you that you need to get your air ducts cleaned. (obviously you can read what type of company set me off)<\/p>\n

Speaking of air ducts,whoever you people are…..bug off. What get’s me all confused is that here we have a company who is aggressively trying to sell air duct cleaning and have been for over 3 years (since we moved in our house).<\/p>\n

They call us on average 4-5 times per week and most times we play around with them wasting our valuable time but also the company’s time. The company is “paying” these workers to contact the “same” people over and over who have “begged” them to stop calling.<\/p>\n

They “do not” want or need their services but what happens? They keep calling.<\/p>\n

The obvious business plan and overall goals of this company likely exist as much as the Wizard Of Oz, nil.<\/p>\n

Who runs a company and pays employees to waste company time and wages to make $0 and they know they will make $0 because they’ve been told over and over by the same customer, NO!<\/p>\n

Although we have call display that doesn’t solve the problem as they use various phone numbers to call. We do have an answering machine and sometimes we let it go to the machine but if we’re having a less than stellar day, we answer.<\/p>\n

Air Duct Cleaning Telemarketing Phone Conversation<\/h2>\n

Sometimes we like to have a laugh ….. here’s one of many repeated conversations…<\/p>\n

Mr. CBB-\u00a0Yes, Hello<\/p>\n

Air Dork Service- Hello Mr.CBB, I am (insert name) from Air Dork Cleaning Services and we are in your area (they have been for 3 years time to move out) and want to clean your Air Ducts for a cheap price<\/p>\n

Mr. CBB- What? Ducks? No, no we don’t like Ducks only Goat… we eat goat.<\/p>\n

Air Dork Cleaning Service- Still tries to convince me….<\/p>\n

Mr. CBB- \u00a0Hang Up…<\/p>\n

Sign Up For The Do Not Call List in Canada Free<\/h2>\n

So, they keep on calling and yes I’ve flat-out asked them to stop calling, remove me from their list and I am not interested etc.<\/p>\n

Last night I was told about this Free Service called the National Do Not Call List<\/a>\u00a0(DNCL) operated by Bell Canada that I should register my phone number in to stop these calls.<\/p>\n

I thought, great I’ll check this out. Once registered on their list your number will be disclosed to Canadian telemarketing<\/em> companies and clients of telemarketers so they no longer contact you.<\/p>\n

You can register all your phones including fax machines and cell phones but give it 31 days to fully activate the service.<\/p>\n

This also includes callers from the US and other countries. They must follow the rules set out by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).<\/p>\n

If you have a national do not call list complaint<\/em> you should have it investigated. Violations are investigated and can result in fines of up to $1500 for each violation or up to $15,000 for corporations.<\/p>\n

Registering your number does not mean that the calls will stop but they will slow down although some say to register every few months.<\/p>\n

Some of the places that can still contact you even though your number is on the list according to the DNCL website are:<\/p>\n