Tips for Telemarketers and junk mail

[Dayvo]

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 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.

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 !

[bloodyricho]

if the damn telemarketers get hold of you ask them to take you off their list. this take me off list is sent back to the company that sold them the list in the first place and they take you off their list and about 10 or 20 customers of theirs don't get your number next year. there is also a gov web site for these list where you can get taken off all the registed lists. but on the fun side plz hold is a good one or just keep saying WHAT? what? whats that? fake some alziemers talk to them for awhile then totally switch conversations like you are talking to someone you know. or do the plz hold then wait 5 secs then say "sorry dave i've got some d*#khead telemarketer on the other line told them to hold dum asses" lol

[Swordsy]

they're paying for it...Twice!

Correction, We're paying for it twice, they aren't running a charity

[jakbob]

Correction, We're paying for it twice, they aren't running a charity

How does that work? Your only paying for it if you are one of the company/business in questions customers. Or am I missing something?

[acarmody]

How does that work? Your only paying for it if you are one of the company/business in questions customers. Or am I missing something?

Where do the businesses get their money, from us, the customers.

[LthlThrt]

my mate is a real wiz on the computer and anything electronic so one day when we got a telearketer we transfered them to piuzza hut, we were just imagining the phone conversation haha

[System]

my mate is a real wiz on the computer and anything electronic so one day when we got a telearketer we transfered them to piuzza hut, we were just imagining the phone conversation haha

nova did a similar thing- managed to get TWO take away shops linked on one line- picture the confusion as each side thought the OTHER was making an order

[VKCOMMO]

or you could just say to the telemarketer "YES!!!" and then hang up after they try to sell you something... always works

[axemurderer101]

nova did a similar thing- managed to get TWO take away shops linked on one line- picture the confusion as each side thought the OTHER was making an order

lol sorta like this one ay
YouTube - Chinese restaurant prank call

[ratz26]

if u ask a telemarketer to take u off their call list they have to do it , the only ones that dont legally have to remove you from their call list are " not for profit" places.

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/

^^ if u register there, its actually against the law for them to call you. unless of cause they are a "not for profit" place
i was speaking to a telemarketer mate of mine once he was saying its just a big rip off... for every $100 you donate only about $10 actually gets to the charity you donate to

[MySV6]

if u ask a telemarketer to take u off their call list they have to do it

They are SUPPOSED to do it, but many wont

[ratz26]

They are SUPPOSED to do it, but many wont

use that link i provided, then its against the law for them to call you

[STEALTHY™]

I have to lol at that do not call register. Every one i know (not including people on this forum, cause there cousins uncles neighbour always have different) has had increased calls after being put on this do not call register.

I didn't go on it, and not a single telemarketer, love the system.....lol

[ratz26]

I have to lol at that do not call register. Every one i know (not including people on this forum, cause there cousins uncles neighbour always have different) has had increased calls after being put on this do not call register.

I didn't go on it, and not a single telemarketer, love the system.....lol

lol i havnt had one call since being on there..6 months and no calls its been great...i had one that used to call my mobile all the time ..used to keep him on the phone for ages running up his phone bill ... lol

[MySV6]

I signed up on the register when it first came out and twice since and get 1to 3 calls a week. Ihave reported a few into the register, and many more hang up when I ask for the company name.

[VKCOMMO]

since ive been on the register i only get charity calls, which arent covered by the DNC

[sik_dose]

I had one recently that was trying to sell me a water purifier, i asked whats wrong with my water. The indian lady said that there are alot of chemicals and chlorine in the water they tested from my area. I told her that that unlike her i dont get water from the open sewer running next to my house and the water quality is quite good in my area.

[redrags]

i use to do market research, the simplest way is to say not interested take me off your list then they ususally do... otherwise all you can do is go to the website stated above