here's some great advice on how to get back at those telemarketers and junk mailers
1) I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed three little words, based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time.
They 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 sales boiler rooms would grind to a halt.
When you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your hand set, which has efficiently completed its task ... Just three little words that 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, 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, our phone calls have decreased dramatically.
3) Another Good Idea:
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 are postage-paid return envelopes, right?
Well, 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 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!
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 the 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.
This might be one of those articles ("junk E-Mails") that you'll want to forward to your friends. Send this to a friend ... or two .... or three...or fifty! Maybe if enough people follow these tips, it might work
1) I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed three little words, based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time.
They 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 sales boiler rooms would grind to a halt.
When you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your hand set, which has efficiently completed its task ... Just three little words that 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, 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, our phone calls have decreased dramatically.
3) Another Good Idea:
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 are postage-paid return envelopes, right?
Well, 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 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!
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 the 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.
This might be one of those articles ("junk E-Mails") that you'll want to forward to your friends. Send this to a friend ... or two .... or three...or fifty! Maybe if enough people follow these tips, it might work
