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tips for dealing with junk mail and telemarketers from Andy Rooney

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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 p hone.

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 y ou 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 r id 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, jus t 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 say ing 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.

i'm gonna start mailing shit back.

i will be doing 1 2 AND 3 asap!

Oooooh #3 is awesome. I will definitely mail random stuff back!

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Originally Posted by Turbo E (Post 6617052)

i'm gonna start mailing shit back.

like litterally put poop in the evolope?

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Originally Posted by Drift_Monkey (Post 6617288)

like litterally put poop in the evolope?

you're amusing

time to find the free stamp envelop!!

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Originally Posted by Physixx (Post 6617314)

you're amusing

He's a monkey. He'll do anything. :)

lololol gonna do this too

too much work.
for number 1 I always saiy " Me no speak English and play some pron vidoe so they can hear it. They never call back.

Number 2. I just hang up right away. If a real person call refer to number 1

Number3 Just throw them out too much hassle to mail it back.

I've been doing #3 for years now.

A story I heard from a friend was he did the same thing and eventually they caught on because he mailed stuff with his name and address on it so they knew it was him. One time he mailed in 14 cents and they gave him a telephone call about it. He said it was an accident and asked for the 14 cents back. After some complaining he eventually received a check for 14 cents.

Or so he claimed....

I'm trying #1 right now with the SFU alumni people, hahaha.

Hahaha. I never answer my home phone anymore. People know how to reach me.
Cel or MSN. :)

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Originally Posted by skyxx (Post 6617327)

He's a monkey. He'll do anything. :)

lol.. i'll probably really put shit in it if I really don't like them =p

but I would not put a return address on it.

^^ROFL
great stuff!!!!
I got a ton of junk!

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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp (Post 6617343)

i heard that when telemarketers call, u dont get connected to a real person until u say something twice, like "hello", "wai" "seapking", etc.
so answer and say nothing and if u hear nothing its telemarketting machine so just hangg up.

yeahh way too much work for number 3 but i will give 1 and 2 a try

I'm just going to mail them random labels.
CHUNKY SOUP FTW

too much hassle but once in a while its gonnabe fun lol