Three Little Words That Work !!

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 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 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.
>
> (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.
>
> THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO
> YOUR FRIENDS

[Janet]

Ya sure have some good ideas there! It may work.....

[2tiredmom]

I had heard of this earlier and have been doing those things. It's alot of fun.

[magnolia]

Great tips! Something I have done before with telemarketing calls is this: I have an air horn I take to football games and keep it "handy" when at home. If I get one of "those" calls, before I answer the phone, I grab the air horn, grab the cordless phone, and run out side. I answer the phone and without saying anything, I wait for the person on the other end of the phone to say hello. As soon as they do, they are MINE! I give that horn a quick blast into the phone - they don't call me back! I have also used the "hold on, please" technique in the past and it does work!!!

Thanks for sharing the tips!

[RLC12345678]

Originally Posted by magnolia

Great tips! Something I have done before with telemarketing calls is this: I have an air horn I take to football games and keep it "handy" when at home. If I get one of "those" calls, before I answer the phone, I grab the air horn, grab the cordless phone, and run out side. I answer the phone and without saying anything, I wait for the person on the other end of the phone to say hello. As soon as they do, they are MINE! I give that horn a quick blast into the phone - they don't call me back! I have also used the "hold on, please" technique in the past and it does work!!!

Thanks for sharing the tips!

Suzi, you are so bad!!!!!!!

[magnolia]

Originally Posted by RLC12345678

Suzi, you are so bad!!!!!!!

LOL!! Yep....but it works. I wouldn't recommend doing this for anyone who lives in the city limits (neighbors might complain) but living out in the country, private, isolated - it works!! When the boys hear that horn at the house, they don't even ask anymore, they know why it sounded. Hubby thinks it's hilarious too!