StevieRay
Enlightened
I belive that we can win if we can get millions to do this. Please pass this on to all of your e-mail buddies.
(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. Since doing this, my phone calls have
decreased dramatically.
THIS IS THE BEST ONE
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, 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
AmericanExpress. 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!
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!
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL
WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS. LET'S SEE HOW
FAST THIS ONE GETS FROM COAST TO COAST!
(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. Since doing this, my phone calls have
decreased dramatically.
THIS IS THE BEST ONE
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, 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
AmericanExpress. 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!
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!
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL
WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS. LET'S SEE HOW
FAST THIS ONE GETS FROM COAST TO COAST!
