Faxing Companies

Shanley

Hows it going? I have heard of companies viral faxing a promotional fax to businesses in Galway. I was wondering if anyone knows a company in Galway that does this? Or if its possible to get access to the list of fax numbers without individually looking for them?

Thanks in advance,
Shanley.

ErnieBert

www.galwaychamber.com has a list of faxes of most businesses in Galway

Mrs OBumble

Why would you want to bother? The vast majority of unsolicited faxes make the trip from the machine to the recycling bin in micro-seconds. The biggest waste of advertising budget ever, IMHO.

(I was gonna post "what is this faxing thing of which you speak?" - but I'm actually old enough to remember the days pre-email, when office actually depended on faxes!)

It's spam, don't do it.

www.dataprotection.ie

Dealing with unsolicited marketing calls & faxes.

The provisions of Statutory Instrument 535 of 2003 [European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services)(Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 2003] took effect on November 6th 2003. Since that date, the sending of unsolicited faxes or the making of unsolicited calls from within the Republic of Ireland for the purpose of direct marketing has, in certain situations, been an offence. The launch of the National Directory Database (NDD) as a national marketing opt-out database has increased the protection of telephone subscribers. Similar regulations are either in force or being enacted in other countries within the European Economic Area.

S.I. 535 of 2003 was amended by S.I. 526 of 2008. This took effect on 13 December 2008.

Edit: although sending it to businesses seems to be ok as long as they are not on a do not call register.

CrowdedHouse

JustMary wrote: »

(I was gonna post "what is this faxing thing of which you speak?" - but I'm actually old enough to remember the days pre-email, when office actually depended on faxes!)

You think that's bad... I remember Telex

cfeeneyinterior

Hate those spam faxes, don't do it! how does one register for getting your number blocked? Also want to block those Indian web designers.

cfeeneyinterior

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Hate those spam faxes, don't do it! how does one register for getting your number blocked? Also want to block those Indian web designers.

http://www.dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=908
Scroll down to the bit on faxes.

Don't know about the Indian ones.

Mrs OBumble

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Also want to block those Indian web designers.

"Hello, can I speak to the owner of the company please" ...I've had that from Irish accents a few times too, they must all operate off the same scripts.

I grump inwardly, but try to remember that they're just poor suckers like the rest of us, doing what they need to do to pay the rent. There's only so many ways to say "thank you, but we already have a website, goodbye".

pounder770

JustMary wrote: »

"Hello, can I speak to the owner of the company please" ...I've had that from Irish accents a few times too, they must all operate off the same scripts.

I grump inwardly, but try to remember that they're just poor suckers like the rest of us, doing what they need to do to pay the rent. There's only so many ways to say "thank you, but we already have a website, goodbye".

After a rash of these particular calls,i asked these website designers if they did databases....when they replied that they did,i asked if they'd do one of all the people who didn't want anything they did,and put my name on top!!!!

don't think it worked,but i felt better!

Robbo

Protip: When they ring asking to speak to the householder, explain it's a little difficult as you've got them tied up whilst performing a burglary.