| Comment Number: | OL-106583 |
| Received: | 12/6/2004 2:59:32 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Crider |
| State: | GA |
| 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 is reprehensible. Recorded phone calls are the #1 reason why I'm ON the Do Not Call List. With human telemarketers, you can politely tell them to go [perform a certain anatomical impossibility] and be placed on each company's personal opt-out list. [-- PARAGRAPH BREAK --] However, recorded phone class do not give citizens the same protection, because 99% of the time there is no way to tell them to never call you again. In my opinion, this has always been an inexcusable loophole in the TCPA's requirements that people be given a chance to opt-out. Furthermore, even the telemarketing industries usual sympathy cry of loss of jobs does not apply as prerecorded messages do not create significant numbers of jobs (except for the handful of executives enrich themselves at our misery). They are the absolute worst sort of telemarketing call, and I cannot believe that the FTC is considering making worthless the protection that they have offered us from them. Please do not play with our lives like this and continue to protect us against useless irritant. [-- PARAGRAPH BREAK --] It is already bad enough that you do not protect me from the messages of charities and political groups, but the prospect of once again having my answering machine fill up with [insert favorite profanity here] COMMERCIALS makes my blood boil! (Also, the way your form removes formatting is really, really annonying.)