TLCfromARK
Well-known member
> > (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.
> >
> >
> > (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.
> >
> > (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 come with postage-paid return
> > envelopes, right?
> > It costs them more than the regular 37cents 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!
> >
> > 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 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!
;-)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > (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.
> >
> > (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 come with postage-paid return
> > envelopes, right?
> > It costs them more than the regular 37cents 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!
> >
> > 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 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!
;-)
> >
