Melora
Disney Dreaming
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(1) 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 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.
(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.
(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.
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 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.
(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.
(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.
