Raulandpinboy
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How to mess with telemarketers
The mild way, just say 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 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.
The Ed way
Just say wait a minute, then you and whomever is in the house start a pretend argument, let it get louder and louder, finally yell thats it Ive had enough and fire a fake gun off near the phone, then pick up the phone and say now what do you want If you are alone argue with yourself and just change your voice, or let the inner voices in your head take over for a bit.
Just say wait a minute were almost done, and place the phone near the TV and tune cable to one of those scrambled playboy channels they usually have sound, but no picture and theres always something interesting going on. Or just tune to the Telemundo Spanish channel, and crank the volume up though that might not work anymore since the telemarketers I have had calling the housed lately first ask if I speak Spanish.
Or when they ask is Hello is Mr. Otero at home, just say no Im not in right now, would you care to leave a message?
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, or it transfers you to a person once you say hello, you see there is voice recognition software on the other end programmed to pick up key words like Hello, hi, YO!, Wassuppppp, the word Residence as if somebody might say Otero residence, and things like that then the call is transferred to a telemarketer or your number is tagged as a valid number. Thats how they get your number even though its not listed.
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.
What about junk mail you say.
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. Send an ad for your local tire company 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! But 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!
Hey this 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!
The mild way, just say 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 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.
The Ed way
Just say wait a minute, then you and whomever is in the house start a pretend argument, let it get louder and louder, finally yell thats it Ive had enough and fire a fake gun off near the phone, then pick up the phone and say now what do you want If you are alone argue with yourself and just change your voice, or let the inner voices in your head take over for a bit.
Just say wait a minute were almost done, and place the phone near the TV and tune cable to one of those scrambled playboy channels they usually have sound, but no picture and theres always something interesting going on. Or just tune to the Telemundo Spanish channel, and crank the volume up though that might not work anymore since the telemarketers I have had calling the housed lately first ask if I speak Spanish.
Or when they ask is Hello is Mr. Otero at home, just say no Im not in right now, would you care to leave a message?
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, or it transfers you to a person once you say hello, you see there is voice recognition software on the other end programmed to pick up key words like Hello, hi, YO!, Wassuppppp, the word Residence as if somebody might say Otero residence, and things like that then the call is transferred to a telemarketer or your number is tagged as a valid number. Thats how they get your number even though its not listed.
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.
What about junk mail you say.
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. Send an ad for your local tire company 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! But 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!
Hey this 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!
