| Comment Number: | OL-102676 |
| Received: | 11/28/2004 12:01:02 AM |
| Organization: | none |
| Commenter: | Michael Ambrose |
| State: | PA |
| 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:
To Whom it May Concern, I oppose this amendment. After I signed up for the Do Not Call list, we no longer grimaced in trepidation each time the phone rang. Before the list, every evening we handled at least 4 or 5 telemarketer calls. It would be terrible to return to that. There’s already an exception for businesses with an "existing business relationship" to call me. When that (occasionally) happens, I tell them immediately not to call again. Allowing recorded calls means that I have to take extra steps to call the company back and speak to a person to remove me from the list. The extra steps coupled with the efficiency of computerized calling for the company, mean that it will be easier for the company and harder for me. This amendment will turn the telephone back into a device we dread. Please don't do this to us. If I want to talk to a company, I will call them. I signed up for the Do Not Call list for a reason. Sincerely, Michael Ambrose P.S. – Here’s a quote from Jean Arp that might be compelling: Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. -Jean Arp, 1948