| Comment Number: | OL-114003 |
| Received: | 1/10/2005 11:30:29 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | M. J. Hill |
| 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:
Dear FTC: I was appalled to hear this evening that you are considering allowing phone solicitation via prerecorded calls to persons who are on the Do Not Call Registry so long as the callee can be considered a customer as defined by the federal government (one who has purchased or done business with the company in the preceding 18 months or made application or inquiry in the preceding 3 months). As a signor of the Do Not Call list, I have appreciated the added peace it has brought me. The few improper recorded calls I've received since then have managed to raise my blood pressure and have failed to interest me in anything but making a mental note never to give the caller my business. If you allow any business which considers me a customer to tie up my phone line with prerecorded calls, you will take away the great relief the Registry has given me to date and restrict my right to shop freely without inviting intrusions into my home. You will shift from the caller to me the burden of protecting (respecting) my privacy, because I will be required to go through burdensome gyrations to make sure the caller desists. The proposed change sought by the application would take the substance out of a mechanism that gave me back my privacy and peace and would instead give telemarketers one more route to annoying me at home. Please DO NOT APPROVE it.. Sincerely, MJ Hill