| Comment Number: | 525547-00211 |
| Received: | 12/7/2006 11:03:15 AM |
| Organization: | ICFI |
| Commenter: | Burr |
| State: | DC |
| Subject: | Telemarketing Sales Rule |
| Title: | Request for Public Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
I object to all unwanted telemarketing calls made to my home. Most, if not all, of the calls are unsolicited and are invasions of my privacy. Recorded sales messages are by far the worst of them all, as I can’t even ask to be removed from the caller’s list or voice my objection about being called. We no longer have an answering machine on our home phone, as it was being filled with more canned messages than messages we wanted. We use our cell phone voicemail as an answering machine, thanks to the extra protection against telemarketers on cell phones. I feel prerecorded messages should be outlawed as they are a form of harassment that can not easily be dealt with, especially when the caller blanks out the Caller ID info. I currently get very few telemarketer calls, but had to go to the extreme of getting an unlisted number and we rarely give the number out. It took several months to stop the initial flood of telemarketer calls, even on the unlisted number, but now I get calls where all you hear is silence or prerecorded messages. While the national DNC list and requesting to be added to company DNC lists has been very effective, there is no way to interact with silence or recorded messages. In my opinion, it is harassment and needs to stop! Thanks, Mr. Burr