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.
THIS
JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR
FRIENDS!