What is a telemarketer?
A telemarketer is usually a person (though sometimes an automated voice called a robocaller), who calls your home or place of business in order to accomplish one or more of the following tasks: 1. Gather information for survey purposes 2. Sell you a product or service 3. Have you make an appointment with a salesperson, in person, on the telephone, or sometimes through Internet conferencing 4. Get you to donate to a charity 5. Get you to vote a specific way, or in a specific election 6. Get you as a preexisting customer to purchase new products or services. Telemarketers may also take calls that are generated via advertising or promotions and then attempts any of the above. The telemarketer may work at a call center, an office, or from home, and some are particularly relentless in calling during family time or the dinner hour, or calling much later in the evening than you would wish. You certainly do not have to wait to listen to the whole pitch of telemarketers, and with caller id, you
A telemarketer is any entity which in connection with a “plan, program or campaign to induce a sale of goods or services by the use of one or more telephones and by more than one telephone call, either initiates or initiates and receives telephone calls to or from a customer when the customer is in this state.” Telemarketing does not include the solicitation of sales through any media other than by telephone calls. Who must apply for a business application? Registration is generally required of those entities which solicit instate customers via telephone calls. Who is excluded from this law? A. The following persons are exempt from the registration and bonding requirements: (1) The state, municipalities of the state, or any department or division of the state or such municipalities; (2) The United States or any of its departments, agencies or divisions; (3) Colleges, universities and other institutions authorized by the regents of the University of NYS or comparable body in any other s
