Telemarketers/Junk Mail

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tips for handling JUNK MAIL and

TELEMARKETERS


(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 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.

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 later and catch 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.

(3) 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, don't throw away the return
envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return
envelopes,right?

It costs them more than the regular 49 cents postage
"IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them
nothing if you throw them away!

While you're at it, why not get rid of some of your
other junk mail and put it in these cool little
postage-paid return envelopes? In fact,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 best of all they're paying for it .Twice!

By the way, this is a great way to 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.