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Tips for Handling Telemarketers

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 possibleThis confuses the
machine that dialed 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) Junk Mail Help:

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 37 cents 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! It still costs them 37 cents.

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 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.

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