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National do not call registry is now available!

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It’s been in the work for some­time, but as of today you can now reg­is­ter on the ‘do not call’ list with your phone num­ber to stop those din­ner time tele­mar­ket­ing calls.

I’m esta­tic. I’m so tired of hav­ing a horn blow in my ear, with my cap­tain speak­ing, the youv’e been approved for ”credit card” were call­ing about your ”‘credit card” calls.

The site is super swamped today but click here to reg­is­ter you might have to keep try­ing or go back another day since I highly sus­pect there get­ting a large amount of Cana­di­ans sign­ing up (Which they hon­estly should of been pre­pared for lol!)

I really hope this does weed out the 20 calls I aver­age a week from tele­mar­keters. I’ve been signed up with the CMA’s do not call list for years, but it really didn’t do too much, maybe weeded out a few but not many.

I don’t mind doing survey’s and such but 9 times out of 10 it’s for a ‘free cruise’ or phish­ing for my SIN num­ber and per­sonal info.

Hope every­one that wants to sign up gets in today!

Edited to add:

You can also call 1–866-580-DNCL (1–866-580‑3625) or by TTY at 1–888-DNCL TTY (1–888-362‑5889). You must be call­ing from the num­ber you wish to register

 

Thanks to Sc’ers for post­ing this on the forum

30 Responses to “National do not call registry is now available!”

  1. Dizzy

    This has been posted both in the tea room and the new and hot free­bies sec­tion. Should they be merged?

    –Dizzy

  2. Jake

    Thanks for the reminder. Looks like they’ve put up a “give our poor melt­ing web­server some mercy” page, but I’ll flag this to check it out when the site’s online again.

    Fur­ther­more, could they have picked a more obscure URL? Why not some­thing like “donotcall.ca” and the French equivalent?

  3. Cheripou

    I’ve been try­ing since early this morn­ing to put my phone num­ber on the “Do not call list” but I keep get­ting this mes­sage: The ser­vice is not avail­able. Please try again later.

    I’m not quit­ing, I’ll try again later :)

  4. pc

    Me Too

    Very busy. But, I am sure it will work and when it does I hope those irri­tat­ing calls will no longer come through.

  7. Sally

    I got in this morn­ing just before I wrote the post, then it went down :(

    Yes Dizzy they will be merged.

  8. Steve

    First off, why the hell do you have to reg­is­ter every 3 years for this ser­vice. Stu­pid lob­by­ist actu­ally pres­sured the gov­ern­ment that we might change our minds after 3 years? If any­one finds out who the peo­ple are who are stu­pid enough to buy some­thing over the phone from teles­cum, punch them in the face twice from me. While you’re at it, peo­ple who actu­ally buy stuff from a pop up add. Sec­ondly, you can get through to the web­site with per­sis­tence, but check this out. You go on the site if you can, then you have to choose eng or french, then you have to click reg­is­ter my #, then you have to enter your #. Then you have to enter the swirly image thingy with a con­fir­ma­tion code , only to find out that the image doesn’t come up because there is an error. Nice to see that the Gov­ern­ment hires only the best I.T. peo­ple. But what do you expect from gov­ern­ment employees…I think they hired pub­lic school teach­ers to build this site.

  9. Sally

    I think you have to re reg­is­ter every three years because so many peo­ple move around, get new phone num­bers etc, and for the ”off” chance Bob who gets assigned Bill’s old num­ber wants to recieve the calls he won’t because Bill had signed up on the registry.

  10. tjg

    I pulled this info from a Sympatico.msn site:

    “How to put your num­ber on the do-not-call list
    You can add your num­ber to the DNCL either online at http://www.LNNTE-DNCL.gc.ca or by call­ing 1–866-580-DNCL (3625)”

    The 1–866 num­ber is busy too but at least there are 2 ways of try­ing to get through.

  11. Dizzy

    Thank you Sally, I greatly appre­ci­ate it. It is much eas­ier to find what you are look­ing for if it is all in one place. Plus, read­ing other people’s responses and what hap­pens is very use­ful, but a pain when hav­ing to look in mul­ti­ple loca­tions for it.

    Thanks again.

    –Dizzy

  12. Sally

    Gosh, what were they one silly drugs not expect­ing this to be so busy? Why is this a sur­prise to them?

    ”The CRTC says about 200,000 peo­ple had reg­is­tered for the ser­vice by about 9 a.m. Tues­day. The site and hot­line were acti­vated at 12:01 a.m.

    “We are vic­tims of our own suc­cess,” CRTC spokesper­son Denis Carmel told CTV.ca. “At one point, 18,000 tried to get through at the same moment. If you would have told me these num­bers yes­ter­day, I would have laughed. It’s phenomenal.”

    By 8 a.m., the site had crashed because of the sheer num­ber of peo­ple try­ing to sign on, said Carmel.”

    Heres the rest of the article

  13. nis

    hubby got us reg­is­tered first thing this morn­ing.
    I had got­ten to where i was just cussing at these idiots who would call at like frig­gin 9pm.
    the funny thing is that Bell, my home phone ser­vice provider, uses tele­mar­ket­ing and tech­ni­cal sup­port in india, and altho i have been telling Bell to stop telar­ket­ing to me for about a year and a half, the com­pany they pay to har­rass their own exist­ing cus­tomers won’t stop call­ing me at all hours of the day. the reg­istry won’t help me with this because i have an exist­ing rela­tion­ship with Bell. too bad it’s a sucky one!

  14. Annoyed reader

    Great. Hope it works, but you should proof-read what you write before post­ing it. It’s hor­ri­ble to read.

    Its been in the work for -> It’s been in the work for

    esta­tic -> ecsta­tic

    the youv’e been approved for ”credit card” were call­ing about your ”’credit card” calls -> the you’ve been approved for ”credit card” calls (It’s rather hard to make sense of this sen­tence, actually)

    highly sus­pect there get­ting -> highly sus­pect they’re getting

    a large amount of Canadian’s sign­ing up (Which they hon­estly should of been pre­pared for lol!) -> a large amount of Cana­di­ans sign­ing up (Which they hon­estly should have been pre­pared for lol!) ——- This is a big run-on sen­tence too, it really needs to be split up.

    don’t mind doing survey’s and such but 9 times out of 10 its for a ‘free cruise’ or phis­ing -> don’t mind doing sur­veys and such but 9 times out of 10 it’s for a ‘free cruise’ or phish­ing

  15. Boo Radley

    Annoyed reader, thank you for your feed­back. We try doing our best to keep our read­ers updated about the most recent deals and free­bies. At the same time, we have our per­sonal lives and chores that we have to attend to. I for instance am a grad­u­ate stu­dent at Queen’s and give school my top pri­or­ity. Sally too has a daily job and other per­sonal com­mit­ments. As a result, it’s not always pos­si­ble to invest as much time fool-proofing posts as we’d like to.

    Adver­tis­ing on Smart­Canucks is very lim­ited and almost non-existent (except for the small Google ads strip at the top) and all our blog posts are very hon­est and intended to be as use­ful and prac­ti­cal as pos­si­ble. There­fore Smart­Canucks is not finan­cially reward­ing as it may seem.

    How­ever I do appre­ci­ate the time you took pro­vid­ing feed­back and we do think that proper Eng­lish is cru­cial espe­cially with a blog as pop­u­lar as SmartCanucks.ca.

  16. Sally

    I per­son­ally don’t appre­ci­ate it. It shows no kuth to post some­thing like that. Please go through the other 1000 posts and point out all errors as well because there tons. Last time I checked I wasn’t paid hun­dreds of dol­lars to post on the blog.

    In fact, eng­lish was my best lan­guage all through­out my years in school. I’m a lazy typer, in fact quite often I don’t punc­tu­ate at all because I didn’t real­ize I was writ­ing a test. I also don’t rely on spell check­ers at all… ever… period.

    So sorry if I’m not per­fect enough for you, thanks for point­ing it out and maybe you ”Annoyed reader” can pay for me to fur­ther my edu­mat­ca­tien as well.

    I try my best, some­times I’m rushed and don’t have time to re read my posts 5 times and pick out any errors. I’m sorry.

  17. SuperstarIgnavious

    I per­son­ally love her posts, she or he is fun and witty.
    It is rude to point out errors to feel supe­rior on a blog. I’m not sure if you just got graded poorly on a test or what your cir­cum­stances are but it is ridicu­lous to find this dis­c­cu­sion over a do not call registry.

  18. nsangel

    I had already reg­is­tered with the vol­un­tary do not call list. which was as you can imag­ine, lim­ited capa­bil­ity. only affected those com­pa­nies that agreed not to call.

    so i’m glad the gov’t has taken a stand against tele­mar­keters. I signed up all of my phone num­bers and my mother.

    Thanks for the feed­back re the 3 year renewal sally. that makes sense. in 3 years you may not have the same num­ber. could be a prob­lem if “bob” that gets your old num­ber likes the com­pany tele­mar­keters pro­vide. LOL.

    Now if they would do some­thing about the fly­ers. not the coupons just the fly­ers. most ppl can get them online, so why can’t the ppl that don’t want to waste a for­rest be excempt from these as well?

    *sigh* progress is slow, but it is progress.

  19. Adam

    Def­i­nitely a grammar-snob in the midst, I am the same way ALTHOUGH I don’t go out of my way to men­tion it unless it is absolutely necessary!

    Thanks for the great post!

  20. snoop

    95% of the “tele­mar­ket­ing calls” we get are from char­i­ties. They are exempt under this scheme. I was puz­zled as to why news­pa­per sub­scrip­tions was also exempt. I mean, they are sell­ing a prod­uct much like car­pet clean­ers, time-shares or cruises.

    I do agree with the exemp­tio for exist­ing busi­ness rela­tion­ships. It’s a fun­da­men­tal must that in order for a busi­ness to be suc­cess­ful, they should fol­low up with clien­tele on a reg­u­lar basis.

  21. babitos

    Hi everybody,Since I changed my num­ber 4 months ago I keep get­ting faxes.The worst part is that they come at all hours of the day and night.Do you think this list will help me? Beeeeep! :)

  22. Private Pbxer

    Just go VoIP and get a num­ber from a small provider that doesn’t pub­lish in White Pages. They won’t find you, and if some­one will — there’s black­list fea­ture for this rare case. No need to reg­is­ter anywhere.

  23. ndncl subscriber

    the web­site should’ve put up some ads with all that traf­fic.… imag­ine the $$$ that would’ve rolled in :D

  24. Mel

    This isn’t going to change much. It will only min­i­mize the calls. Every­time you fill out one of those con­test bal­lots in the mall or some other con­test, your info is sold to a third party who then sells them or uses them as sales leads. The best and only way is to say ” I am not intetrested”

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  29. Curtis

    what’s wrong with an occa­sional “i love it” if you do..and if there is noth­ing more to say about the design..and it also sais a lot about the per­son who is com­ment­ing. (maybe he or she has noth­ing more tos ay about it than than,..or has a very lim­ited vocabulary)

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