Comment Number: OL-109616
Received: 12/10/2004 5:38:15 PM
Organization:
Commenter: Tracy Richard
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:

I am presently on the Do Not Call Database, use a telezapper and receive two to three machine generated blanks a day on my answering machine in addition to dead air on calls I pick up. Allowing commercial machine-generated calls would significantly increase this aggravation. Because the definition of an existing business relationship is tenuous and almost spurious, I believe permitting this is unconscionable unless there is appropriate compensation for consumers. Separately, to stratospherically expand the call abandonment acceptability percentages period from a 24 hour period to a 744 hour period is an invitation to consumer torture and entirely unacceptable.