| Comment Number: | 525547-00122 |
| Received: | 11/5/2006 8:27:57 PM |
| Organization: | None |
| Commenter: | Stewart Abramson |
| State: | PA |
| Subject: | Telemarketing Sales Rule |
| Title: | Request for Public Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| Attachment: | 525547-00122.pdf Download Adobe Reader |
Comments:
Please see the full text of my comments in the enclosed pdf file. A summary of my comments is as follows: I hate receiving outbound telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, and everyone that I know hates receiving outbound telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages. I believe that such prerecorded telephone messages are annoying, frustrating, coercive, and abusive. This is no less so, and sometimes even more so, when the prerecorded message is left on my voice mail or answering machine. I urge the FTC to strike the words “when answered by a person” from it’s proposed rule. I urge the FTC to extend the prohibition against outbound telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages to calls that are answered by a voicemail system or an answering machine. I urge the FTC to modify it’s proposed rule so that it prohibits “initiating any outbound telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message, unless the seller has obtained the express agreement, in writing, of such person to place prerecorded calls to that person.”