Comment Number: OL-103784
Received: 11/28/2004 3:57:14 PM
Organization:
Commenter: Tom Taetsch
State: CO
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:

This comment is in regard to: 'Prerecorded Message EBR Telemarketing, Project No. R411001'. I STRONGLY OBJECT to the loophole that is being proposed to allow the use of pre-recorded messages for telemarketing calls. The reason I added my phone number to the Do Not Call Registry is because I don't want to be bothered with telemarketing calls of ANY kind from ANYONE. It doesn't matter if I have an 'established business relationship' with a company or not. I don't want to receive ANY telemarketing calls. Therefore, I don't want to make it easier or cheaper for a company to place telemarketing calls to their customers. Rather, I would like to make it as expensive and as inconvenient as possible to place such calls; so that hopefully, companies will eventually give up the obnoxious practice of telemarketing phone calls altogether. Please REJECT this proposal for allowing pre-recorded messages.