Tips for Handling Telemarketers

[snowflower]

I got this in an email, had to share.... 

Tips for Handling 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 41 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.
They have to pay someone to sort and inbox all incoming mail. Now it's their turn to be frustrated.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!
It still costs them 41 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.

[lilsh0rtii445]

 

Thank you!

I'm doing this starting today!

[C~M]

when telemarketers call me I try to sell them Amway and they quickly hang up

[GodsmsVee]

  thansks great tip!!!     telemarketer please call me so I can try  it heheheheehhehe

[Joe C]

 

[mycatownsme]

Thanks for the Great tips. Now if I can only remember them when the time comes.