| Comment Number: | OL-104736 |
| Received: | 11/29/2004 5:24:38 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | K Bright |
| State: | IL |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
The rule is called "Do Not CALL," and to leave any kind of message, telemarketers must first CALL. What you propose is a modified "Do Not Talk Directly" list. How could the FTC possibly *guarantee* that those calls are really going to answering machines and voice mail? What about consumers who are home during the day - a number that continues to increase? And for those with voice mail, why should a consumer have to spend money to call their voice mail only to find they're retrieving telemarketing recordings? This is an absurd and anti-consumer proposal. Recordings are the same as spam - there is no way to opt out at that moment. The consumer would be forced to make a call, which may be a toll or even a very costly international call, which may be in any of dozens of time zones, and to who? Another recording? Sitting on hold to get a person who speaks little or no English? This ill thought-out proposition needs to be scuttled.