Comment Number: OL-105893
Received: 12/5/2004 12:29:10 PM
Organization:
Commenter: Dorothy Herman
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:

It has been wonderful not being interrupted at my meals by unwanted telemarketing calls. I strongly object to changing the rules that would allow companies with whom I have had a so-called "prior relationship", however far fetched, to be able to make prerecorded calls to me without my direct permission.. Basing a prior relationship on something as specious a making a minor purchase from a business is truly stretching definitions. It appears that some companies (ie. Voice Mail Broadcasting) will resort to anything to get what they want. If I wanted to receive calls from a business, I would like to be the one to make that determination.