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!

[Janet]

I haven't had too many telemarketers calling since I signed the "no call" list. It use to be sooooo annoying. I know everyone needs a job, but I could never ever do that one.

[SweetCuteness]

Our old roommate used to mess with the telemarketers. One of the things he would do would be make them think he was really interested in whatever they were selling, even give them a fake credit card number and everything, then at the very end he would just hang up right before they finished up. They'd usually call back thinking they were just disconnected, but we'd see their number on the caller ID and not answer it and laugh. Sometimes it was pretty funny.

I know spanish also, so sometimes when I answer I'll just start speaking spanish - they usually get frustrated and just hang up.

Or someone from a bank would call and say how much money they could save us be re-financing our mortgage, and he'd be like "no, the house is paid off, but I'd really like to re-fi my fish tank."

[Janet]

Some of the telemarkerters were very rude...I remember one that called and I said very politely mind you, that I was not interested, said thank you and then hung up. I was fixing supper at the time. No sooner had I hung up, the same guy called and when I answered he said...."How does it feel, bi**h?" and hung up. He just yelled it into the phone and slammed his receiver down. It wasn't like I slammed the receiver down on him, I even said thank you...but he was a nut case. Glad I don't get them any more....

[rivermom]

Originally Posted by Janet

Some of the telemarkerters were very rude...I remember one that called and I said very politely mind you, that I was not interested, said thank you and then hung up. I was fixing supper at the time. No sooner had I hung up, the same guy called and when I answered he said...."How does it feel, bi**h?" and hung up. He just yelled it into the phone and slammed his receiver down. It wasn't like I slammed the receiver down on him, I even said thank you...but he was a nut case. Glad I don't get them any more....

Ohhhhhhhhh Id be madder as hell if that happened to me!!!! This is a time when Id wish I had caller id because Id make it a mission of mine to make this guys life for a while a living hell. I'm just that way. I refuse, let me say this again, REFUSE to allow people to be rude to me.

I have some neighbors on my list now that I will get back at them some day come hell or highwater.

I know it's not nice, but it seems these days so many people feel they have some right to be downright rude to others. Did they somehow forget the golden rule their own Mama's tried to teach them when they were little?? I dunno? But I feel I have the time in my day to see to it that every rude person pays the price!

[rivermom]

Oh...I forget to say earlier because I was on a rampage of rude people....THANKS for all the great tips.

I can't wait to return some junk mail now to people!

[Janet]

I was wanting to turn that creep in, but there was no number on the caller ID and when I pushed *69 to call him back, it didn't work. I would have loved to be the reason he lost his job!!! Then we'd see who had the last laugh!!!!