[Taliesan]

The people who put themselves on the do not call list are the people who would hang up on the telemarketer anyway. So little, if any sales will be lost to the customers of the marketers, and the telemarketers costs should go down and yields go up as the law weeds out their worst sales prospects.

[Petronski]

The people who put themselves on the do not call list are the people who would hang up on the telemarketer anyway. So little, if any sales will be lost to the customers of the marketers, and the telemarketers costs should go down and yields go up as the law weeds out their worst sales prospects.

Excellent, textbook economic analysis of the issue, except that the telemarketers expect the right to be paid to call everyone, including the right to call those who do not want to be called.