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08-31-2005, 09:34 PM
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| Doesn't think you're funny   Join Date: Dec 2004
Bike: 05 Boulevard M50 Black
Location: Tampa, FL
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|  things that make you go "hmmmmm"
> 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 ! > > If enough people follow these tips, it will work---- > > I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail > anymore. |
