| Comment Number: | OL-104947 |
| Received: | 11/30/2004 12:59:42 AM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Setzer |
| State: | UT |
| 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:
Please do not create the proposed additional safe harbor or amend the existing safe harbors. Often a supposed "established business relationship" is merely one transaction conducted a long time ago; our modern era of malls and mail order catalogs presents us with many fleeting merchant-customer relationships. 150 years ago, one might have a long term relationship with one or a few shopkeepers; these days we don't have deep relationships with any merchants. As for changing the per-day requirement to per-30 days, this seems hasty to me. Let's give the per-day requirement at least another year to see how it really works out for customers and how much of a burden it truly is for telemarketers. With modern automatic call distribution and similar systems, I see no technical reason why measurement on a daily basis is more difficult than on a 30 day basis.