| Comment Number: | OL-102790 |
| Received: | 11/28/2004 12:44:59 AM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | August Zajonc |
| 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:
If a telemarketer has something that I really might be interested in they can justify the expense of a person making the call. Automated calls allow marketers to communicate messages folks are more likely to abandon cost effectively. The required response rate to make a compaign succesfull drops with pre-recorded messages. This means of a course an increase in the number of annoying calls to consumers who will simply hang up. I'm not against the 30 day provision for 3% abandonment, though I would probably shrink it, or have it be the lesser of 30 days or a specific campaign, if a merchant campaign had a shorter duration. I AM against permitting pre-recorded messages.