Daley Ponderings

We have been getting more and more sales calls lately.  I try to take the time to report them to the do not call lists, both for our state and for the country.  We are supposed to get $100 for each violation (where the caller pays $1000).  But, I haven't ever gotten any money.

My new theory is that the do not call lists don't really have anything behind them, and companies now know that, so don't bother checking the list.

Today, Clean Net USA called (again) and I asked to be removed from their internal list (again) and they refused.  At least he was honest this time.  Last time, she said she would.  This guy didn't even want to give me his name, though he forgot that he gave it at the start of the call.  He said it wasn't his fault, that they use salesgenie.com, so it was their fault.  I called their national number, and he couldn't believe that they would call a number on the do-not-call list.  Joe Pierre said he would remove my number, so we'll see if he follows through.  I also placed a complaint with the Maryland Better Business Bureau, since companies seem to pay more attention to those complaints.  And since they have now called twice, it is no longer a do-not-call issue, since they refused to remove the number from their internal list.

Just for fun, I called up Sales Genie, and asked my good friend Vic (I used a free trial of sales genie years ago to see if I would actually want to use it for sales leads, when I was trying to see how to find new customers) and he said that he checked his database and they have various information about me, but not my phone number.

For those of you interested in the privacy side of things - I didn't leave a message with him, but he called back anyway (I guess the caller id was saved in his phone) AND I got an automated email from him with their latest promotion -- I'll have to check whether there is a cookie in my browser from two years ago when we talked - note that the email address his system used is not one that is public, but is the one I gave him a long time ago.  How it had those tied together, I have no idea.