| Comment Number: | OL-108952 |
| Received: | 12/9/2004 2:08:49 PM |
| Organization: | Self |
| Commenter: | Michael Merritt |
| 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:
Telemarketing calls are an unwarranted intrusion and should be forbidden. Like the play Seven Degrees of Separation, every credit card I own leads to massive corporations with divisions in every possible business area, and they lead to practically every business and product. Result is that, in the tortured mind of a telemarketer, they can fabricate an established business connection to any product they want to hawk and I end up with an unsolicted call tieing up my voicemail or worse interrupting me in traffic or a meeting. The call abandonment safe harbor provision should prohibit or include provisions that limit such calls to the maximum extent possible.