These idiots need to be stopped - it's ridiculous. Corporate Payroll Services (CPS) is NOT a company for anyone to do business with. They are especially not a company for which one should work. They will take the phone numbers from an applicant's work history and add the numbers to their call list. That's how they got our number. Neil Dave (really?) is just there to say, "I'm sorry for any inconvenience, and we will remove your number from the list. It will take a week to take effect." I gave him all 5 of our numbers. We shall see. Next stop - BBB.
9:28 a.m. 7/26/12 - This is call #2 in as many days since I called to have the a$$holes at C P S (Corporate Payroll Services) remove our numbers from their call list. I have begun to simply answer, "No" when asked is so and so in and "No" when asked if I know when so and so will be in.
The BBB can't do anything. They send a mean letter and the company replies with "Oh, we took care of that last week." and the BBB "inquiry" is over. The company has officially complied with all of their requests. They have no real power.
Here's what to do:
Send a letter with signature delivery. Costs about $0.65. Send it to the Accounts Payable department as boiler room telemarketing businesses know what's up and won't accept a letter with signature delivery unless they think there's a check inside. Is that dishonest? No. I'm just sending a letter to a company employee who is most likely to sign for receipt of that letter
Below is a sample letter that I have sent several times. It has never resulted in a suit, but I have NEVER heard from anyone I've sent it to again, and that includes a particularly sleazy telecom company in North Atlanta who has a different weasel call you every week as well as a really irritating office products supplier in Norcross who used to call twice a day. None of the companies has ever sent me a copy of their DNC policy and technically if I wanted to sue them, I could try it based on that, but I have the sneaking suspicion that after I drive over to the courthouse and pay $45 to file a small claim, the scum would just backdate a letter and mail it to the court saying that they had complied and I would be out the $45 and my time. Still, the letter has been 100% effective in getting the calls to stop and that's really the goal if you want to spend your time working instead of shooing away these pesky flies.
----- LETTER TEMPLATE ----
Dear Accounts Payable,
Kindly deliver this to the appropriate manager.
The following is formally demanded:
(a) that {your scumbag telemarketing company} (its affiliates, successors, and assigns) cease and desist from phoning the numbers listed herein for a minimum of 5 years, preferably permanently.
xxx-xxx-xxxx
yyy-yyy-yyyy
zzz-zzz-zzzz
(b) that you provide a written copy of your do-not-call policy to the following address within 30 days of receipt of this letter.
123 my business address
City, State ZIP
(c) that you provide written acknowledgement of this letter and your commitment to comply with these demands to the same address, also within 30 days of this letter.
Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (the TCPA), 47 U.S.C. sec. 227(b)(3), we are entitled to recover $500 statutory damages for each violation of the law, should the law not be upheld. Failure to comply with these demands constitutes a knowing or willful violation of this federal law. As such the court will be petitioned to treble those damages.
I recieved a call from them today. The woman was very vague--she didn't even know who she was calling for because she gave an incorrect name. When I asked specificall what she was calling about she hung up. We are on a do not call list and I plan to report this.