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, 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" 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 ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
Send a pizza coupon to Westpac.
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 return.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just
to keep them guessing! It still costs them!!!!!
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 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 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 ---- 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!!!!!!!
