Tired of Telemarketers & Junk Mail?
Here are some good ideas about getting rid of annoying calls and junk mail: Three little words...
I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed Three Little Words, based on his brief experience in a Telemarketing operation, that would stop the nuisance for all time.
The three little words are: "Hold On, Please.
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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 sales boiler rooms would grind to a halt. 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.
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 the # button on your 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. Since doing this, our phone calls have decreased dramatically.
Other Good Ideas:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return them 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 second mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelopes. Most of these are postage-paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail by putting 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 applications back! If you want to remain anonymous, make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can even send the envelopes 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. Best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
In addition, this will help keep our postal service busy since it's saying that e-mail is cutting into its business profits, and that's why it needs to increase postage costs again. This just might be one of those 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'll work... :-)
I recived thie e-mail today & thought I'd shre it.