> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection
> issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Trent
> Sent: Friday 19 August 2005 13:22
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Silent Calls - are the DMA's new rules right?
>
>
> Ok, let's look at banning cold calling:
>
> You are a professional IT director. According to Gartner the
> average job
> tenure in your position is 23 months. And regrettably you
> are the single
> most over canvassed sector of the market because you
> generally have a budget
> for modernisation or replacement of equipment. So you are
> naturally highly
> resistant to any sales calls. It Directors are a nightmare
> to reach you
> know!
>
> I am a purveyor of top quality, exciting new widgets for the
> IT market which
> will genuinely help you to do your job. I am a new market
> entrant with a
> very limited marketing budget and just the skill of cold
> calling to make my
> company fly. And the widget may well increase your tenure in
> post because
> it is genuinely excellent and a new idea.
>
> In your scenario there is no way I can get to you and thus no
> way you can
> choose to benefit from it early in its life.
>
> Why should I be banned from phoning you? Such a ban is genuinely
> anti-competitive, too, and leads to monopolistic practices by
> the existing
> market names in that space
>
> (to be clear I do not make widgets - this is for discussion purposes!)
If your widgets were likely to be relevant to my job you are welcome to
contact me during business hours at one of my business contact
addresses, which are widely advertised (though I am also welcome to tell
the switchboard I do not wish to talk to you at the moment). You are
highly unwelcome (and will be told so if you ever bother to pick up the
phone) to phone me on my ex-directory home number, which has been
registered with the TPS for several years.
Interestingly I don't think I've ever had a silent call on my business
number, but I'm getting them every couple of days on the domestic one at
the moment. When I complained to BT they said there was nothing they
could do, and suggested that the numbers were auto-generated, rather
than taken off any list, so even Antoinette's solution may not work :-(
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Clark
> Sent: 19 August 2005 12:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Silent Calls - are the DMA's
> new rules right?
>
> While I too understand the need for marketing products, I
> don't agree with
> the intrusive methods exhibited by telephone marketing (or
> email, but that's
> easier to deal with). If I want a product I'll find out about
> it and contact
> those companies offering what I need. If I don't want a
> product I certainly
> don't want to be called directly about it.
>
> I think all cold-calling should be banned. If companies want to market
> themselves then do so in the public space of the internet, TV
> and magazine
> advertising, and so on. I'll find them if they are any good.
>
> Rant mode off. There, I feel better now. At least it's Friday.
>
> Nick
>
> Nick Clark
> Director of IT Services
> Tower Hamlets College
> +44(0)20 7536 5738
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon
> Howarth (WSL)
> Sent: 19 August 2005 10:10
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Silent Calls - are the DMA's new rules right?
>
> I understand the need for marketing of products and services, but
> unfortunately my experience of the professionalism of this
> bunch of people
> has been very mixed; from ultra professional to downright childish.
>
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