60 min. Andy Rooney's tips for Handling Telemarketers ~ LOL!

jangel

Andy Rooney






Tips for Handling 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 41 cents postage 'IF' and when they receive
them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was
39 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 41 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.



How's that for keeping it green, Friends?

I LOVE this guy!

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green_nobody

that are some great ideas to get even, but i doubt that the "#"trick works - sounds a bit like the Y2K scare "...as soon as the clock strikes midnight your CPU will meld down as it knows that it wasn't around in 1900" - never told this news to my CPU and it did just fine as any other did that day

by the way, ever answered a spam mail? "...i'm dearly sorry but i will receive several payment already over the coming weeks and i don't want to great to much attention to my accounts now to avoid the kind of trouble your are in now..." i bet someone is pi**ed in Largos after reading this one

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