What Bugs Wisconsin Consumers?
State Officials Say Banking Group Wants To Weaken No-Cal List
Posted: 11:12 pm CST January 25, 2005Updated: 8:29 am CST January 26, 2005
The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection released its annual list Tuesday of top complaints filed with the state.The No. 1 thing was violations of the No-Call law with 2,886 complaints, or 20.6 percent of the total complaints received. This was the same thing that bugged consumers the most last year.No. 2: The telecommunications industry, including telephone companies.No. 3: Landlord/tenant complaints. No. 4: Home improvement's bad contractors.No. 5: Travel and tourism -- mostly telemarketers offering very low cost vacations that turn out to be non-existent
No-Call List Threatened
Consumer protection says the state's No-Call law is being challenged by a banking association.Bankers want telemarketers to be able to call you for 18 months after canceling their services. State officials say if you buy a product from a company, any of its affiliates they would be able to call you to telemarket any of their products. Current Wisconsin law, only allows one call to former customers.The state is asking consumers to send complaints to the FCC.Distributed by Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
