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Obama supports debt-collection calls to cell phones,

And when the postal service began, the government let the bill collectors use that too.

What's your point?

Help the job market? Do you support his jobs bill?
 
jackschmittusa said:
And when the postal service began, the government let the bill collectors use that too.
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The difference is that I'm not paying for the postal service to deliver collection documents to me. Depending on your cell phone plan, you *are* paying for someone to call you, I think it's completely illogical and unfair to make people pay for calls from someone they don't want calling them (not limited to bill collectors, I'm including telemarketers, political campaigners etc etc).

I don't have any bill collectors calling me, but I do have a tmobile phone with pre-paid minutes since I don't use my phone much. It irritates me to no end that telemarketers call me and use up *my* minutes.
 
GOPLogicOn: If you pay your bills you don't have to worry about that cell phone ringing...


Why does the OP support scofflaws, think people should be able to blow off their debts (Especially ones to the Government), and in general hate the American way? Original creditors can and will call you at home and on your cell as long as they follow the FDCPA guidelines.

3rd party collection agencies are now and always will be held under the scrutiny of the FDCPA which Obama is NOT planning on nixing.
 
It's not clear to me from that article what it means that the President is "endorsing" this tactic. In any case this just seems like the inevitable march of technological progress - I don't see why, if it's legal for collectors to call land-line phones, they shouldn't be permitted to call cell phones if people have gotten themselves into a collection status.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
It's not clear to me from that article what it means that the President is "endorsing" this tactic. In any case this just seems like the inevitable march of technological progress - I don't see why, if it's legal for collectors to call land-line phones, they shouldn't be permitted to call cell phones if people have gotten themselves into a collection status.
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Agreed. I don't know if Obama is behind this, but I have no problem with it in either case.
 
FCRA....all you have to do is stay stop calling me per the FCRA... mail me!

Done over, this is all protected by the FCRA.
 
Many people only have cell phones these days. If they're too busy playing Angry Birds to pay their bills then they can deal with a few calls from collectors.
 
People getting collection calls maybe shouldn't be paying for phone service anyways. They should be calling collect.

zing
 
Double Trouble said:
The difference is that I'm not paying for the postal service to deliver collection documents to me. Depending on your cell phone plan, you *are* paying for someone to call you, I think it's completely illogical and unfair to make people pay for calls from someone they don't want calling them (not limited to bill collectors, I'm including telemarketers, political campaigners etc etc).

I don't have any bill collectors calling me, but I do have a tmobile phone with pre-paid minutes since I don't use my phone much. It irritates me to no end that telemarketers call me and use up *my* minutes.
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you are aware that you're paying for your home phone service as well, right?
 
Well easy my carrier lets me block 5 numbers for free. Guess what is going to get blocked. Oh wait I don't have to block any numbers because I have no debt and pay all my bills on time.
 
Double Trouble said:
The difference is that I'm not paying for the postal service to deliver collection documents to me. Depending on your cell phone plan, you *are* paying for someone to call you, I think it's completely illogical and unfair to make people pay for calls from someone they don't want calling them (not limited to bill collectors, I'm including telemarketers, political campaigners etc etc).

I don't have any bill collectors calling me, but I do have a tmobile phone with pre-paid minutes since I don't use my phone much. It irritates me to no end that telemarketers call me and use up *my* minutes.
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Telemarketers I agree completely. But it's bad form to complain about someone using up the cell phone minutes for which you paid by calling to demand that you repay your legal debts.
 
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