Telemarketers & Junk Mail (Vanity)

[Allosaurs_r_us]

This is an old one but needs to be re-circulated.

 

Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers

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.

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 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 !

 

while I don't agree with much of Andy Looney's rants very often, this one is a classic!

[Allosaurs_r_us]

I have done this for almost a year now and it has decreased the ammount of junk mail I recieve by half.

[codyjacksmom]

I have got to try these...they sound like so much fun!!!

[peyton randolph]

For telemarketers, I say "I'm not wearing any clothes. What are you wearing?" For some reason, they always hang up. ;-)

[N. Theknow]

Putting down the phone and walking away is so cruel.

I at least put them hold and let them listen to music.

[anniegetyourgun]

I love doing it. But it's no where near as fun anymore since phone systems have changed whereby they break the connection. In the old days, it was much harder for them to get on with the next call if you left your line open.

[boxerblues]

What do I do about all the junk faxes that I get

For every legitimate incoming fax we receive 10 spams. anybody know how to block numbers on a fax machine?

[Allosaurs_r_us]

"For telemarketers, I say "I'm not wearing any clothes. What are you wearing?" For some reason, they always hang up."

Now that's funny! I'll have to try that one myself.

[fanfan]

For telemarketers, I say "I'm not wearing any clothes. What are you wearing?" For some reason, they always hang up. ;-)

Good one.

I usually ask them to give me their home phone #, as I'm busy right now, but I'd be happy to call them back.

(them)"I can't give you my home phone #!"

(me) Well, if you don't want me calling you at home, then don't call me at home. Have a nice day. Bye.

[12 Gauge Mossberg]

I don't have a problem with telemarketers and junk mail. Sometimes there'd be good offers that I purchase.

If I'm not interested I simply tell the telemarketer I'm not interested. Ditto with junk mail. I just throw it away. Why get all mad over nothing?