Oddly enough, I do these things...and they do work.
I'll add that with telemarketers, I like to get them on the phone and just "chat" about the weather, my health, the neighbors who just bought the "item or service" that they are trying to get me to buy. You name it. LOL They like to get off the phone with you because you're messing up their timing! These things work.lol
Joby
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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.
Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
(3) 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.
I'll add that with telemarketers, I like to get them on the phone and just "chat" about the weather, my health, the neighbors who just bought the "item or service" that they are trying to get me to buy. You name it. LOL They like to get off the phone with you because you're messing up their timing! These things work.lol
Joby
******************
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.
Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
(3) 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.
