| Comment Number: | OL-102861 |
| Received: | 11/28/2004 1:24:24 AM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Matthew Hudson |
| State: | TX |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
There's a reason people signed up for the National Do-Not-Call list: We do not wish to be harassed at home with advertisements over the telephone. If I don't want to watch a commercial on TV, I can change the channel, or I could even turn it off. I cannot, however, afford to turn off the telephone. To allow this is to intrude into my personal life. If a company cannot move its product unless it makes _unsolicited_ calls to people _in their homes_, perhaps it should reconsider what it is trying to sell. But that's not your problem. You become an accomplice to this intrusion if you enact any loopholes in the Do-Not-Call list. Ultimately, I have no reasonable defense against the incessant ringing of the telephone from sunup to sundown if this sort of thing is permitted.