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JarHed
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Courtesy of Andy Rooney. 
(1) 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.
(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.
(1) 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.
(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.
