Keep an eye on your telephone bills to see if your carrier changes or if charges for your long distance calls increase significantly. The FCC requires carrier charges to be “clearly and conspicuously” indicated on all telephone bills.

Call your local telephone company and request a “carrier freeze.” Currently, your local company will switch you whenever a request is made by a long distance carrier. A call to your local telephone company is currently only way to block a switch without your direct consent.

If you have been slammed
Call your local telephone company immediately and notify them that you did not authorize switching of your long distance service, ask them to switch you back to your original carrier. You are not required to pay any fees associated with switching back to your original long distance telephone company. Also call your long distance company and make them aware of slamming. Ask company to make sure your account is in order and that you will not be penalized with charges resulting from slamming.

The FCC issued new slamming rules effective November 28, 2000. Once a slamming complaint has been verified by FCC, consumers are guaranteed compensation.

Consumers who have been slammed and have not paid unauthorized carrier, will not be responsible to pay for service for up to 30 days after slam occurred.

Consumers who have been slammed and have paid unauthorized carrier will receive a 50 percent reimbursement of all paid charges. The rules require unauthorized carrier to pay 150 percent of all charges to your authorized carrier, which in turn is responsible for reimbursing you 50 percent of those same charges.

To report an unauthorized carrier, or if you think you’ve been slammed, you can call:
Attorney General: 1-800-282-0515 (toll free)
FCC: 1-888-225-5322 (toll free)

In fact, other than products you sold to a few family friends and co-workers, you really don't have a lot to show for all of your efforts, now do you?

That's why I'm so against MLM. Because it's simply not for average person. And let's be honest here, most people are average. And unless you have outstanding sales ability and/or people skills, you're simply not going to make any money with MLM.

In additon, market is so completely over-saturated, most of time, you'll find that people you're trying to sell to are other distributors, and if you're all trying to sell products to each other, that ultimately means nobody is making any money!

Well, somebody is. A handful of super salespeople way, way up there up at tippy top of your upline! If you listen closely, you can hear them all saying in unison "KA-Ching!" Want to borrow my binoculars, so that you can see them?

Dean Phillips is an Internet marketing expert, writer, publisher and entrepreneur. Questions? Comments? Dean can be reached at mailto: dean@lets-make-money.net

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