On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:15:58AM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: > I would be curious to know where, in this classification, fall various > telemarketing schemes that are technically not cold-calls, but are > generated from leads that come from customer-provided information, but > where the customer does not know explicitly that they are signing up to > receive calls. > > For instance, this is common in a number of industries such as financial > services. You do a search to get a quote on something, and provide your > phone number in the process, although the phone number bears no relation > to the submission and is just an ancillary required item. Several > places' telemarketing organisations call you back in response. For > example, lendingtree.com. > > Is this a "solicited" call?
In order to classify that as a solicited call, I believe, you have to have language *on the form the customer fills out* that says they're authorizing you to call, and you have to be able to produce ink-on-paper if the FTC ever calls you on it. IANAL. YMMV. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
