| Comment Number: | OL-102242 |
| Received: | 11/27/2004 9:20:18 PM |
| Organization: | WestWords, Inc. |
| Commenter: | Daniel Lewis |
| State: | UT |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
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Comments:
I am horrified that you are attempting "to allow telemarketing calls that deliver a prerecorded message to consumers with whom the seller on whose behalf the calls are made has an established business relationship." I already receive calls from companies I do business with; they offer to upgrade my service or attempt to sell me new packages. If I could, I would stop these sales calls as well. There is a marginal advantage to me as a consumer to receive canned telephone messages. But I consider it a further encroachment on my privacy, and like many others would prefer that you restrict solicitation and marketing to the fullest feasible extent. I do not trust these calls to be restricted to companies that I have established a business relationship with; rather, I expect my telephone number to be passed around the subsidiaries of massive umbrella corporations, the same corporations I bank with and buy from. Do not weaken the Do Not Call list in any way.