Tips for Handling Telemarketers

[Madan M Mukkoti]

> I LOVE THESE IDEAS!!!
>
> Tips for Handling Telemarketers Three Little Words
> That Work!!
>
> (1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
> Saying this, while putting down your phone and
> walking
> off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make
> each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming
> that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then
> when you eventually hear the phone company's
> "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back
> and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
> completed its task.
>
> These three little words will help eliminate
> telephone
> soliciting.
>
>
> (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with
> no
> one on the other end?
> This is a telemarketing technique where a machine
> makes phone calls and records the time of day when a
> person answers the phone. This technique is used to
> determine the best time of day for a "real" sales
> person to call back and get someone at home.
>
> What you can do after answering, if you notice there
> is no one there, is to immediately start hitting
> your
> # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as
> possible This confuses the machine that dialed the
> call and it kicks your number out of their system.
> Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their
> system any longer!!!
>
>
> (3) Junk Mail Help:
> When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or
> utility
> bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the
> sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
>
> When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the
> mail
> for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages
> and
> similar type junk, do not throw away the return
> envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid
> return
> envelopes, right? It costs them more than the
> regular
> 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them
> back.
> It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The
> postage was around 50 cents before the last increase
> and it is according to the weight. In that case, why
> not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put
> it
> in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
> One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas: Send an ad
> for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
> Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get
> anything else that day, then just send them their
> blank application back!
> If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your
> name isn't on anything you send them. you can even
> send the envelope back empty if you want to just to
> keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
> The
> banks and credit card companies are currently
> getting
> a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks,
> we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's them know what it's
> like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all
> they're
> paying for it...Twice!
>
> Let's help keep our postal service busy since they
> are
> saying that e-mail is cutting into their business
> profits, and that's why they need to increase
> postage
> costs again. You get the idea! If enough people
> follow
> these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this
> for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
>
>
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