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. *

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. *