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You can hang no solitation signs if door to door salesmen become a problem. Without this list, there is no way to put a no solicitation sign on your phone number.

If I were selling door to door, it would cost me nothing to see your "no solicitation" sign. Compliance would be easy and cost me nothing.

Compliance with the proposed regs for the DNC registry requires an annual expenditure of over $7K per year, regardless of how small the firm might be or how infrequently they might initiate phone calls to residences. Compliance is difficult and costly.

I would have no problem with this thing if the FTC were to simply provide a free single number look-up service on the web. This would be a reasonable accomodation for small businesses that have an occasional need to make an initial phone contact with someone, but who are not into doing massive telemarketing. Unfortunately, the system that the FTC has actually implemented only provides for such a lookup systems for a total of five user-selected area codes. To get access to the whole list, EVEN IF YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK UP ONE NUMBER PER YEAR, costs over $7K. That is the real flaw in the FTC's implementation.

To get access to the whole list, EVEN IF YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK UP ONE NUMBER PER YEAR, costs over $7K. That is the real flaw in the FTC's implementation.

Up to five area codes are provided at no cost to the marketer. Additional area codes are provided at a fairly low set rate, with a cap of just over $7000 for the entire list.

If you're looking up one number, it will cost you nothing.

"costs over $7K. That is the real flaw in the FTC's implementation. "

I agree with you. That's a real flaw. There is absolutely no reason that it should cost so much. Greedy Bureaucrats can't do anything right.

I still want the law. If I had too choose between banning all calls or allowing all of them. I'd choose the ban. But $7k is ridiculous.