Columbia House fined for phone calls.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July, 2005 | by Olmstead, Rob

Byline: Rob Olmstead Daily Herald Staff Writer If you've ever cursed when a Columbia House Co. telemarketer disturbed your dinner to see, for the 20th time, if you really wanted to cancel your membership with their record club two years ago, today is your day to smile. The record club company will pay a $300,000 fine to settle a U.S.

Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging it violated the federal no-call telemarketing edict. In a suit filed and settled Thursday, the FTC alleged Columbia House violated the edict "tens of thousands" of times in 2003 and 2004 by calling former club members whose memberships had ended more than 18 months earlier. While the federal no-call list does allow companies to call customers or recent former customers on the list,...

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