DarrenW
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| posted on 5/7/07 at 08:13 AM |
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Telemarketing Revenge
REVENGE
ON THE TELEMARKETER
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1) The three little
words: "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 BT's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know
it's time to go back and hang up your handset .... you have efficiently
completed your task.
These three little words could 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 then used to determine the best time of day for a
"real" salesperson 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 dialled
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: 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-prepaid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when they are
returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away!
In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk
mail and put it in these cool little, postage-prepaid return envelopes.
Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express ... they
might need one!
Send a pizza coupon to HSBC ... in case their canteen packs up.
You get the idea.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their blank
application form ... after all, it is their form!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you
return.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all
.. you are just returning it!!!!
The bank s and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own
junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in order to
stop 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 Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they will not
need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get very
little junk mail anymore.
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 5/7/07 at 09:08 AM |
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 Hehe I'm definitely going to try those out - especially the last one about sending junk mail back to where it came from.
I remember seeing something years ago where a guy decided to send back a box stuffed with an old tyre and several rocks. He taped the pre-paid
envelope to the top and they had to pay for the postage! Maybe that could be a novel new way of disposing of Type 9s that have had it?
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 6/7/07 at 01:06 AM |
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Give that man a 'suggestion of the week' award!
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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