>> >> HOW GOOD IS THIS!!!!!!
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, 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.
>> >>
