| Comment Number: | OL-112879 |
| Received: | 1/6/2005 3:02:51 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | J Zakett |
| State: | MI |
| 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:
"telemarketers" includes all groups who are currently exempt from the "Do not call list" law. I am 100% against automated messages. I did not have a telephone installed because I wished to be contacted by telemarketers and politicians. I pay for phone service and a non-published number so I may be contacted only by persons I choose to interact with. I consider telemarketers an invasion of my privacy--privacy that I am paying for!!! Though I am on the do not call list, about 25% of the calls I receive are from telemarketers. Usually, they wont state the company they are from [if they do, I call the company involved and complain, but it still takes up MY time!!] If I challenge them or tell them I am on the do not call list, they hang up on me-- before I can make arrangements not to be called. Legislation suggestions: 1. Persons with non-published numbers should not receive unnecessary calls from company sales reps whether they are human or automated regardless of their realtionship with the company involved. 2. By law, all telemarketers, human or automated, should be designated a certain group of telephone numbers, and consumers should be able to choose to block this group of numbers at no cost to them. [similar to a firewall blocking a group of numbers on an internet] 3. If consumers are unable to have total control over our interaction with telemarketers, then telemarketers should pay a fee to the local phone company where they are canvassing and this fee should be passed to the consumer in reduced telephone rates, both local and long distance Thank you J Zakett