Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject: Revenge on the Telemaketer
Thought this was a good one.
REVENGE
ON THE TELEMARKETER
Three
Little Words That Work!!
(1)
The three little words: '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 BT's 'beep-beep-beep'
tone,
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset
..... you have efficiently completed your task.
These
three little words could 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 record s the time of day when a person answers
the phone.
This
technique is then used to determine the best time of day
for a 'real' salesperson 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
dialled 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:
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-prepaid return envelopes,
right?
It
costs them more than the regular postage 'IF' and when
they are
returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away!
In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk
mail and put it in these cool little, postage-prepaid
return envelopes.
Send
an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American
Express ... they might need one!
Send a pizza coupon
to HSBC ... in case their canteen packs up. You get the
idea.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then
just send them back their blank application form .....
after all, it is their form!
If
you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name
isn't on anything you return.
You
can even send the envelope back empty if you want to
just to keep them guessing! It still costs them, and it
is their envelope after all .. you are just returning
it!!!!
The
banks and credit card companies are currently getting a
lot of
their own junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need
to OVERWHELM them, in order to stop them.
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 Royal Mail busy. Since
the
Royal Mail are saying that e-mail is cutting into their
business profits, let's help them so they will not need
to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If
enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe
you'll
get very little junk mail anymore.
THIS
JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD
TO YOUR
FRIENDS!!!!!!! _________________
Yes these do work, but a far easier option is to register your name and address with Tele Preference or similar. It drastically reduces both the number of unwanted and unsolicited letters and telephone calls. _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
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