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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 522330" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>I doubt that the Angus Assn sells your name and phone number to telemarketers. When you join the Assn, they put out a press release in your local newpaper and put your name, city and state (no address or phone #) in the "New Members" section of the <em>Angus Journal<em>. You'll also appear on the "Member Lookup" site (link below). I assume that you can request they not put out that info about you, but for most small breeders, it's free advertising. The marketing people could monitor that site and use the internet yellow pages to find your phone number. Once one of them get it, they can sell it to others.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>Since we've been on the "no call" list, we hardly get telemarketing calls. For a few years we got calls from some knife outfit. They claimed to have knives left over from the Denver show and would give us a great discount. We told them "no" and that we were on the no call list. We haven't had a call in several years. Politics and charities are about all we get now. The "no call" list didn't expire. If you put your name on it, it should be there. I just politely tell them we're on that list and hang up the phone. We also got on a list to stop getting credit card offers. That made a difference in junk mail pile.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em><a href="http://www.angus.org/membership/member_search.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.angus.org/membership/member_search.cfm</a></em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 522330, member: 13"] I doubt that the Angus Assn sells your name and phone number to telemarketers. When you join the Assn, they put out a press release in your local newpaper and put your name, city and state (no address or phone #) in the "New Members" section of the [i]Angus Journal[i]. You'll also appear on the "Member Lookup" site (link below). I assume that you can request they not put out that info about you, but for most small breeders, it's free advertising. The marketing people could monitor that site and use the internet yellow pages to find your phone number. Once one of them get it, they can sell it to others. Since we've been on the "no call" list, we hardly get telemarketing calls. For a few years we got calls from some knife outfit. They claimed to have knives left over from the Denver show and would give us a great discount. We told them "no" and that we were on the no call list. We haven't had a call in several years. Politics and charities are about all we get now. The "no call" list didn't expire. If you put your name on it, it should be there. I just politely tell them we're on that list and hang up the phone. We also got on a list to stop getting credit card offers. That made a difference in junk mail pile. [url=http://www.angus.org/membership/member_search.cfm]http://www.angus.org/membership/member_search.cfm[/url][/i][/i] [/QUOTE]
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