Sears Pays Settlement Over Telemarketing Complaint

Sears, Roebuck and Co. paid an undisclosed amount to a Wheeling, WV, woman after the company settled a complaint alleging it wouldn't discontinue telemarketing calls after the woman requested they stop, the Associated Press reported.

The woman, Diana Mey, asked to be put on a "do not call" list after she received calls beginning in January 1998 from American Home Pro, then a subcontractor to Sears, asking her to buy Sears siding for her home.

Mey's $5,000 lawsuit was met with a countersuit for $10,000 by Sears and American Home Pro for wiretapping because she tape-recorded her conversations with the telemarketers. The companies later dropped the countersuit before Sears issued an apology and agreed to settle with Mey, the wire service said.