Time Life, Inc. will pay $30,000 in civil penalties following charges that it violated Pennsylvania’s Do-Not-Call law, the state said Tuesday.
The state said that its bureau of consumer protection had received complaints from 30 consumers, claiming they had been contacted illegally with telephone solicitations for magazine subscriptions, books and music CDs.
The 30 consumers will each receive $100 in restitution.
The alleged calls took place between November 2002 and March 2003 and there was no record that Time Life had purchased the state’s Do-Not-Call registry to scrub against its own file, according to the state.
“Any business selling goods or services over the telephone must have the statewide list and purge their own calling lists of those residents who, under state law, cannot be contacted,” Acting AG Jerry Pappert said in a statement.
Time Life admitted no wrongdoing.