Class Action Seeks to Stop Home Buying Firm From Making Unsolicited Calls
Volunteer Buyers places cold calls to consumers to promote its home buying options but in so doing, it violates the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by placing unsolicited calls to phone numbers that are listed on the national do not call…
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registry, alleged plaintiff Gina Moore’s class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-02377) in U.S. District Court for Western Tennessee. Moore, a Memphis resident, received an unsolicited call from Volunteer Buyers on April 17, said the complaint. When Moore answered, a representative told her he was calling to make an offer on her home, it said. Moore told the rep that she won’t sell the property “and that she’s concerned about the methods Volunteer Buyers used to acquire her contact information,” it said. The call ended with the plaintiff telling the rep not to call her anymore, it said. She nevertheless received a second solicitation call from Volunteer Buyers a few minutes later, it said. The unauthorized solicitation calls have harmed Moore “in the form of annoyance, nuisance, and invasion of privacy,” plus they have occupied her phone line and disturbed the use and enjoyment of her phone, it said.