I don't know about you, but I'm tired of telemarketers bothering me on the
phone all of the time (not to mention their spam e-mail!!). Recently I
received this forward, and thought you might enjoy it, too.
Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has
proposed Three Little Words, based on his brief experience in a
Tele-marketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time.
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 Tele-marketing 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 now it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently completed its task.
Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.
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.
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?
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. Can't hurt, right?