Junk Mail

[Bigjeeze]

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 32p postage "IF" and when they receive them back.

 

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 30p 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.

 

Send an ad for your local carpet cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Barclays. 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 32p

 

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.

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

[gregers]

:o :o :o totally brilliant,something im am really going to have to do.....

[MadBaz]

Nice one BJ,

 

a few years ago the ceo of a junk mail company made the mistake of showing off his new house in a magazine, quite a few internet junkies gave him a taste of his own medicine and subscribed him to just about everything in the world, His mail was delivered daily by an artic or 2.

[Saif Rehman]

:o Absolutley brilliant ideas, i was fed up and sick to my back teeth with junk mail and dodgy telephone calls from the UK and abroad offering me services that i did not want or was interested with.

 

Well anyway, i'll tell you about a particular instance that happened to me a while back - my wife inadvertently sent of for a brochure to a well known company for windows. A few weeks later we started getting phone calls, stating they they had a 'special offer' on and would i be interested in getting windows fitted, to which we replied no. Well, anyway, this went on and on and on for umpteen weeks, each time they came down in price. One day, after a hard day at work, the phone rang again from the same company, so i decided enough was enough. I told them i was interested in a conservatory rather than windows and we were in the market for one sooner rather than later, you could tell immediately by the tone of the mans voice that he thought he was in line for a hugh commission. Within half an hour, the salesman phones to arrange a visit which was suitable for me but not for him as he had to travel 60 miles to see me, i told him that this was the day only available for me to which he agreed.

The day came and up draws a Mondeo with a saleman clutching a briefcase and papers, trundles up the path and knocks on the door, ahh, wait for it, he knocks on the neighbours draw who i presume points the salesman to the right door. At the same time i opens my door to see a man with a face with a colour of a beetroot and no doubt cursing under his breath to realise that he had been done :o - As i live on the second floor, so no use for a conservatory! I burst out laughing whilst telling him that he now knows what it feels like when you keep getting harrassed for something you don't want. Obviously, after this incident i never ever got a call from them. :o

 

I also joined the telephone preference service where you can add your telephone numbers to stop unwanted calls.

I believe there is also one for mail

 

Anyway, i'm definitely going to do what BJ suggested.

Edited September 14, 2007 by Saif Rehman

[Dave-G]

I've been returning junk mail to sender for yonks - frequently with other stuff in it too :o