| Comment Number: | OL-102648 |
| Received: | 11/27/2004 11:46:23 PM |
| Organization: | none |
| Commenter: | J. Kumiega |
| State: | AZ |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
No! No! No! Do not let the onslaught begin again. No pre-recorded calls from any commercial (or non-profit or political, for that matter) source are acceptable, regardless of some imputed foot in the door they claim through prior business relationship. It has been too many years in gaining the recognition that the consumer's telephone service is his as paid for, and for his desired use, not a convenience of the Direct Marketing Association, or any other commercial entity, to bombard us with their commercial drivel at negligible unit cost to themselves, so that eventually they might make a profit on one pinhead among a hundred recipients who fails to recognize the insolent indifference or condescension demonstrated by the sender's directing of his computer program to contact us at their convenient time and manner. Any notion that any opt out provision would somehow offer fair protection to those opposed is just plain stupid. Let the companies involved seek permission to annoy the public at home, one party at a time, as they would like us to do in the reflexive. This idea to relax the rules is garbage! If the FCC rules would allow it, theirs need to be changed to match the more restrictive current standard of the FTC, as was the concept of the Do Not Call Registry in the first place. Sincerely, J. Kumiega