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(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----
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD
TO YOUR FRIENDS.
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