| Comment Number: | OL-105927 |
| Received: | 12/5/2004 1:23:49 PM |
| Organization: | Private Citizen |
| Commenter: | Michael Lampton |
| State: | CA |
| 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:
Please do not loosen the rules governing DoNotCall. The arguments presented to you by Voice Mail Broadcasting Corporation VBMC are specious! They are lying to you. For example they argue that having an "established business relationship" makes telephone solicitations acceptable. They are wrong. They argue that only 0.02 of 1% of such solicitations result in the target posting an entity-specific Do Not Call request -- yet they fail to mention that the possibility of such a request -- indeed its existence -- is not offered by the solicitor. In fact, most solicitees simply slam down the phone. I do! Such flagrant abuse of a statistic is evidence that VBMC is not acting in the public interest. Please deny their petition, and take steps to eliminate the loophole presented by their argument that an "existing business relationship" is reason to violate the Do Not Call law. Thank you Mike Lampton