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Yes Virginia, There Really Is a Anti-Telemarketer Market!
Thursday, August 21st, 2003Wade Jones works for a company called BlockaCall. He sent along a white paper for prospective investors for a new product called InTeleScreener. From the introduction:
The InTeleScreenerTM is an innovative new product from BlockACall that uses Caller ID to automatically filter incoming calls, allowing the consumer to take control of their telephone privacy. The InTeleScreenerTM is much more than just another anti-telemarketing tool. By utilizing Caller ID, the consumer can program the InTeleScreenerTM to filter all incoming calls, both personal and telemarketer, and allow the privacy conscious consumer to create their own personal âDo Not Callâ list.As part of our ongoing effort to present the best product available on the market, it is our desire to educate the public at-large that we are not just another âwant to beâ, that in fact the InTeleScreenerTM represents a new paradigm in telephone control devices. This paper describes why the InTeleScreenerTM is a superior product in the fight to control your telephone privacy and deserves to be placed in a category of its own.
And, from the summary:
In conclusion, I want to end with comment that we recently received from one of our customers. We received a call from this customer who had been researching the telephone privacy market and stumbled across our website. When he called, he asked the usual questions about the InTeleScreenerTM operating modes. He seemed reluctant to actually make the purchase because he was afraid that we were just another product like the TeleZapper®, making promises that we could not keep. After we described the operation, he went ahead and placed an order for an InTeleScreenerTM. A few days later, he called us back and during this conversation, he could not tell us enough of how pleased he was with his purchase. We were struck in particular by one comment that he made. His words were âWhen I saw the price of the InTeleScreenerTM, I was concerned that that price was too high, especially when compared to the other products on the market, but once I was able to block that first unwanted call, I realized that this thing is pricelessâ. We couldnât agree more.
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Arguing against the “Do Not Call” registry simply because it will harm the emergent anti-telemarketer-product market is a clear application of the broken-window fallacy.
I would tend to think that this would actually be *good* for economic efficiency (and for telemarketers) as it may reduce the number of non-responsive no-sale phone calls they have to make. Anyone motivated enough to put themself (voluntarily) on this list probably isn’t worth the expense of calling.
But I could be wrong.
My point isn’t that the do-not-call list will hurt companies like this. It’s that companies like this exist, which means there are market alternatives to the federal list.
Yeah, Verizon sells it, it’s called Call Intercept and Call Block, and uses Caller ID to filter calls. Not gotten 1 telemarketing call since I’ve signed up 6 months ago. And I can also block specific numbers I don’t want to be able to get thru. Pretty simple.
By that logic vandalism should be legal because the market provides for graffitti-removal services.
Another alternative to the federal list is for me to hire a bruiser to go out and make telemarketers’ lives miserable. I guess I don’t see why I should have to pay someone for the service/product of making other people leave me alone. It’s not like I have to buy a gadget to filter out harassment. I still think the gov’t is the right party to be the enforcer that tells nuisances to leave me alone and enact consequences for failure to comply.
-Chris
Libertarian smackdown
Radley Balko and Pejman Yousefzadeh have dueling articles in Tech Central Station over whether the Do Not Call registry — about which I’ve posted here — is consistent with the libertarian credo. Start off with Yousefzadeh’s original TCS essay. Then…
Calling the Right-of-Center
Dan Drezner is refereeing a libertarian smackdown over the National Do Not Call Registry. In one corner stands Pejman Yousefzadeh, whose Tech Central Station essay concludes that “conservatives and libertarians needn’t feel discomfited by the creation …
Radley, there are “market alternatives to the federal list” in the same way that there are market alternatives to small penises. That is, if one is gullible enough to believe any marketing information one finds on the internet, one can find any service one wants.
Apparently you doesn’t actually have Caller ID yourself. If you did, you’d realize that most telemarketers’ numbers don’t show up. Hence, your choice as a phone-owner is to let most telemarketers get through, or to block all calls from people with unlisted numbers, even if you want to talk to them. (By definition, you can’t selectively choose which of those people to let in, since there’s no way to distinguish them from the others.)
Ultimately, I don’t understand the point of your argument about “market alternatives.” There are “market alternatives” to calling the police if homeless people decide to camp out in your living room, uninvited, but that’s what the government is there for. The fact that you could have locked your door or rented guard dogs or signed up with an alarm company in no way justifies the actions of said homeless people, and in no way makes your decision to call in the government to evict them illegitimate.
Verizon and other phone companies do sell the Call Intercept or Privacy Manager and call block services, but for these services your annual cost will be more than the one time cost of the InTeleScreener. Ask your phone company if you can block them from calling to switch your long distance service. Why would they block themselves from calling you and offering you additional services?
The Intelescreener can also block the “Unknown” or “Unavailable”, or “Out of Area” telemarketer calls in addition to specific number blocking, for those of you who did not know it or wrote out of your own assuming ingnorance without reviewing the Intelescreener product first.
There are laws against people breaking into your house but a lot of people seem to be buying alarm systems for additional protection.
There are too many loopholes in the DoNotCall list and just wait until the politicians start calling you every night for your vote or donation. What will you do then? They are exempt from the DoNotCall list.
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TECHNOLOGY TRIUMPHS OVER FTCâS âDO NOT CALLâ LIST
New Caller ID Screener Allows Only ‘Invited’ Callers to Ring - Free of Fees
Telemarketing companies and exempted groups may have found loopholes in the new National "Do Not Call" List, but telecom automation groundbreaker Bill Sasso of Digitone Communications thwarts them again with his latest invention, the Privacy Call ID Screener.
A small, tabletop device designed for customers who subscribe to Caller ID, the Privacy Call ID Screener allows only ‘Invited’ callers to ring their phone. All other callers are handled as the consumer chooses.
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Additional benefits include a call-forwarding feature that, on a single line, seamlessly connects ‘Invited’ callers to a cell phone or alternate location, as well as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode. This feature prevents all callers from ringing the phone during set hours, such as bedtime and study time, either on a one-time or daily basis.
"The ID Screener is particularly useful for people who keep unusual hours, such as those working the graveyard or swing shifts," says Sasso. "During ‘Do Not Disturb’ hours, ‘Invited’ callers can leave a message, but the phone will not ring, ensuring total privacy." A secret emergency code is provided in case of emergencies.
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