Tips for Handling Telemarketers

> Three Little Words That Work !!
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> (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.
>
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> 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. 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 41 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 41 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 !