▲ 559 ▼ France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (abcnews.com) submitted 4 weeks ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 weeks ago (3 children) What is a solicited telemarketing call??? “Why yes, I want someone to call me to pressure me into doing something I don’t actually want to do!” permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Enoril@jlai.lu 28 points 4 weeks ago You buy something or a service and give them the authorization to use your phone number for a later usage. So the telemarketing will be only with companies you're previously authorized (think contracts renegotiating, new offer proposals, survey, feedback...) permalink fedilink source parent [–] homik@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Business to business sales and calls from vendors that you trust. There's people that want those, somewhere. Much like there's non-spam commercial mail. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago Yeah, also calls because you placed an inquiry into a piece of heavy machinery or something similar. I used to get solicited sales calls on my work phone from time to time permalink fedilink source parent [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 weeks ago No you don’t. That’s not actually what you want. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Enoril@jlai.lu 28 points 4 weeks ago You buy something or a service and give them the authorization to use your phone number for a later usage. So the telemarketing will be only with companies you're previously authorized (think contracts renegotiating, new offer proposals, survey, feedback...) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] homik@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Business to business sales and calls from vendors that you trust. There's people that want those, somewhere. Much like there's non-spam commercial mail. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago Yeah, also calls because you placed an inquiry into a piece of heavy machinery or something similar. I used to get solicited sales calls on my work phone from time to time permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago Yeah, also calls because you placed an inquiry into a piece of heavy machinery or something similar. I used to get solicited sales calls on my work phone from time to time permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 weeks ago No you don’t. That’s not actually what you want. permalink fedilink source parent