Three Little Words That Work !!
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.
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. Since doing this, my phone
calls have decreased dramatically.
Another Good Idea:
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 37cents 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!
Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own
junk back in the mail. Let's let 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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