why the legislation does not allow phone company to block selected calls at the request of a phone service subscriber... a consumer should have right to decide what he/she is paying for...

Received phone calls from this number 3 consecutive days.  No reply when call was answered.

was a screened call and no voice mail. But is seemed famaliar.

well stated

harassing phone calls up to 6 or more times a day.

It wouldn't be so bad that Wpg Free Press calls for subscription solicitation...except... I have already spoken to them 3 times this year, declining the service.  NOW, they call and when I answer, they hang up.  Even if I was contemplating subscribing, this practice has me soooooo ticked off that I will never subscribe to the Free Press.  Reverse marketing if you ask me.  Definitely did not achieve their objective, unless it was to harass me!

Go away Free Press, or at least be there when I hurdle my sectional (couch) like an Olympic track athlete and run across the kitchen to get the phone by the third ring!

they call me all the time...I never answer the phone when the call display shows no name....put them on call-block.l
used to buy FP once or twice a week at store or from box,...don't now....phone harassment cost them my business. I guess they just don't care.
Bad business plan I think....but hey , they have all the marketing, "experts". Thank goodness for call display!  

Calling everyday and VERY ANNOYING!! WINNIPEG FREE PRESS SAY WHAT YOU WANT.

This number calls and hangs up! If this is a sales call they should at least state their business

This number called me on several occasions- when answer the phone...no response and disconnect from caller.

They call everyday starting at 7am till 9pm calling my cell and home phone number. This happens regularly without me answering. Harassment much?

They are not breaking the law since they are a newspaper they are 100% exempt from the DNC.  They can call you once a day until eternity.  As for unlisted number they use a robo dialer using prefixes common to public knowledge and dialing those prefixes 0000-9999 so they get every single number.  As long as they get a ring it logs it into their database forever.  If you want it removed you need to call them and request for it to happen but it will not.  I have asked them a few times to remove me but because I have no proof there is nothing I can do about that either.

I am sick of answering this number and no one answerer's !!! they should have there phone removed !!!!!

Numerous calls.. they will not quit.

This 204 697 7001 is always calling my home number for 5 consecutive days now.  I guess it doesn't matter even if your unlisted my home number already in their automated call. Annoying.  WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Please remove my number from your list.

Caller sounded drunk and wouldn't give his name.

Just got a call from them ,..  answered and waited.. they did not answer.. so I hung up. grrr.

I have recived calls from this number over 8 times in one day. I have better things to do with my time then talk to someone who wants to give me a paper. . I makes me mad b/c I could be missing a more important call. Give up Winnipeg Free Press!!!!! Just give up for god sakes!

Pls. advise that this message has been rec'd - 204,452,8309

I wish to discontinue the printed TV Guide.

I do not know why people persist to call us, today is the first day in a long time that the WFP has called, When they called the second time and I answered and They asked my address and to speak to the mr. or mrs. I told them they where away, they said they would call back later and hung up on me. I am not sure what to do about them if they call again.

quit calling me

They called my house 6 times in 1 day!  All the calls were blank, no on the other end.  I got fed up and re-dialed the number and it took me straight to the Free Press.  I spoke to a customer representative and asked why I was constantly getting these calls and she rudely said "its telemarketing, there's nothing I can do about it".  I asked to get my number removed and she took my number and said "yeah well I'll see".  I told her that she is a very rude and if I get 1 more call I'm calling the police, then I hung up.  Taste of their own medicine.

they called my fax number but fortunately, I've been utilizing a little feature called "call screen" - you just take some steps after an unwanted caller has called you, and this service blocks ALL future attempts from ever being able to ring you again.  (it's available from both shaw and mts)
it's the best resolution of all. :)

Same experience as everyone else. Multiple calls, no messages left... I've taken to e mailing the companies who hire these telemarketers and I complain right to the company. So far it's worked like a charm! Every company from The RBC to the New York Post! No annoying calls from them at all. Still get the odd new one but I just fire up the computer and send off a note warning them that I expect the annoying calls to stop AT ONCE or I'll start filing complaints. Give it a try and save your sanity!

Further to my comment, It IS criminal for the Winnipeg Free Press to Harass us.  I wish to note that the Winnipeg Free Press IS, and I stress IS, breaking the LAW.  The Criminal Code of Canada states that three (3) or more times of a repeated offense such as HARASSMENT, is Criminal, and charges can be laid.  Criminal Harassment.  
The Winnipeg Free Press is breaking the LAW.  
The Winnipeg Free Press is located at:
1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R2X 3B6,
Phone 204-697-7000 or 204-697-7001.  Fax (204) 607-7412  
Email:  fpcirc@freepress.mb.ca

ps Tell everyone to NEVER buy their paper.

Grrrrr

Sorry Bear, must be a glitch.
we do not remove posts if there are no TOS violations. Thanks for posting it again.

June 2011

Is 800notes bogus???  I posted here a few days ago, a truthful post, no profanity, etc, and I do not see my post?  So where is it???  Bear.

To briefly redo, multiple calls from same number, five in half a day.
Checking, I saw it was Winnipeg Free Press.  I called them, asked for a Supervisor, got Darlene.  I told her the above and told her to stop their auto dialer from calling me and that their actions were against the LAW.  She argued that they were exempt from the DNCL.  I told her to STOP calling me or (fill in the blank).  She relented and said i would be removed from the Winnipeg Free Press auto dialer.

I wish to note that the Winnipeg Free Press IS, and I stress IS, breaking the LAW.  The Criminal Code of Canada states that three (3) or more times of a repeated offense such as HARASSMENT, is Criminal, and charges can be laid.  Criminal Harassment.  The Winnipeg Free Press is breaking the LAW.   The Winnipeg Free Press is located at:
1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R2X 3B6,
Phone 204-697-7000 or 204-697-7001.  Fax (204) 607-7412  
Email:  fpcirc@freepress.mb.ca

I hope 800notes posts all this, as it is true and helpful
and took me much time.  Grrrrrrr.

BEAR

Winnipeg Free Press made my phone ring off the wall.  Non stop calls all day.  I called them back.  Supervisor Darlene stated that they were "exempt" from Do Not Call List.  BS i swore at her.  It is LAW that you cannot solicit me.  Stop calling me or I will come down and rip your automated calling machine to bits.  She relented and said she would remove my number from their automated calling list.  I growled YOU BETTER, or I will come there.  I slammed the phone down.  Grrrrr.

phoned them back and asked if they had a calling list that I could be deleted from but she denied having such thing..... oh well.