Deadline For Telemarketing Comments is Friday

BuckMulligan writes "Attention, Citizens! The deadline for filing comments against the telenuisance industry is Friday at 5 PM. You can send comments via e-mail to TSR@FTC.GOV. Also, EPIC has a guide to telemarketing and suggestions for comments online. It's important to note that the FTC regulations won't apply to banks and telephone companies that telemarket. However, these rules could be extended to those industries. This is also a lesson that state privacy legislation is better because state do-not-call lists apply to all telemarketers--even banks and common carriers." My state has a statewide do-not-call registry and although it has a list of exemptions a mile wide - charities, anyone you've done business with, etc. - getting on that list has cut out most of the telemarketing calls we used to get. Very nice. Update: 03/28 17:57 GMT by M : EPIC informs me that the deadline has been extended to April 15. Taxes and telemarketing, two great things that go great togeth... well, nevermind.

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Re:Well, I Did My Part

[Anonymous Coward]

Telemarketing has a non-zero success rate. Probably single-digit percentages, but still non-zero.

As a former telemarketer, I'd say the success rate is probably even smaller than that. Tenths of a percent. Hundredths of a percent for a bad telemarketer or a hard to sell product. That's all it takes, though.

Take those annoying winsheild repair places, for example. If I can call 40 people an hour (I can) and sell two of those a day, I've easily made the company a lot more money than just my salary and only had a success rate of .6%