lebe03 Posted September 17, 2011 Report Share Posted September 17, 2011 Three Little Words That Work!! (1) The three little words: '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 BT's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset....you have efficiently completed your task. These three little words could 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 record's the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is then used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' salesperson 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 dialled 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) 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-prepaid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular postage 'IF' and when they are returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-prepaid return envelopes. Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express... they might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC... in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their blank application form... after all, it is their form! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you return. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all... you are just returning it!!!! The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the post, but folks....we need to OVERWHELM them, in order to stop 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 Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail is saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea! If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get very little junk mail anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted September 18, 2011 Report Share Posted September 18, 2011 Love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Storm Angel n Auroras Mum Posted September 20, 2011 Report Share Posted September 20, 2011 so cool im going to try some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted September 20, 2011 Report Share Posted September 20, 2011 Nice ideas. We used to do something similar with telemarketers. As soon as they started the spiel and we realised they were trying to sell / change services etc We would put the phone by the TV Speaker and leave it for 10 mins. They either enjoyed Top Gear or the Big bang theory. . . or hung up, thier choice. Strangely enough we don't get that many these days. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingspanner Posted September 20, 2011 Report Share Posted September 20, 2011 That's a great idea. I think I'm going to like this new game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLOBOx Posted September 23, 2011 Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 Hahaha that's awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted September 23, 2011 Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 PMSL these are hilarious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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