| Comment Number: | OL-110227 |
| Received: | 12/15/2004 2:52:35 PM |
| Organization: | private citizen |
| Commenter: | Prentiss Williams |
| 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 writing to express my ardent opposition to the proposed rule change. The National Do-Not-Call list provides a valuable service for Americans who wish to reclaim control of their private telephones. Allowing telemarketers to circumvent the rules by using recorded messages will render the Do-Not-Call list meaningless. Telemarketers would then be free to monopolize our telephone lines and fill up our answering machines with unwanted and unwelcome solicitations. I have never purchased a product or a service from a telephone solicitation, nor will I ever do so. Those of us who took the time and trouble to subscribe to the National Do-Not-Call list did so because we did not want to receive ANY phone solicitations of ANY kind. This proposed rule change cannot conceivably benefit the public and simply represents a blatant favor to telemarketing industry. I strongly urge the FTC to reject the proposed rule changes.