| Comment Number: | OL-107085 |
| Received: | 12/6/2004 9:03:08 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Daniel Goltz |
| State: | CA |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
I hope the commission turns down the request for pre-recorded messages sent to people who had previous business with the calling telemarketer. I have 3 specific reasons: 1. Pre-recorded messages are very annoying, because one cannot respond to the calling party that you don't want them to call again. 2. A previous business relationship with a company is not defined, and a telemarketer can send his unwanted recorded calls to someone who had only a passing business relationship with caller, like an email inquiry or a very incidental purchase made with a credit card. 3. Like most people, I signed up for the no call list, so that I could be free of annoying, unwanted phone calls that invade the privacy of my home, in the name of a free market. I get enough of that advertising on commercial TV and radio (and now even on Public radio. I am bombarded with piles of newspaper ads and inserts that I recycle without reading. As far as the change for maximum abandoned calls, I feel that the telemarketer's desire to use 3% of 30 days instead of one day is a backwards step. They are asking to increase their margin of error by 30 times. If they can't toe the minimal standard that has been established, then they should not be sending out unsolicited recorded calls. In summary, the effort to create a no call list was to keep the home a place where one could be away from the constant huckstering of goods and services, which do not interest the homeowner. Sixty six million people have opted for this domestic privacy. This petition is merely an initial attempt to go back to business as usual. There will be more revisions to follow if this one gets approved. I urge that no telemarketing be allow into homes of people who have signed up on the no call list. That seems pretty obvious. It is after all supposed to be "A NO CALL LIST" not a sometimes call list. I hope that a majority of the commission agrees with me. I am pretty sure that millions of fellow citizens do. Dan Goltz