Monday, August 20, 2012

Nuisance communications - C




Tips for handling telemarketers 


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Three little words that work!!



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The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...' 



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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 basic 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.
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These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
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Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
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This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
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This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home.
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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.
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This confuses the machine that dialled the call, and it kicks your number out of their system.
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What a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!
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Junk Mail Help:
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When you get ads enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these ads with your payment.
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Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
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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.
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Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
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It costs them more than the regular postage, 'if' and when they receive them back.
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It costs them nothing if you throw them away!
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The postage was high before the last increase and it is according to the weight.
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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.  
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Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express or Visa.
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Send a pizza coupon to Citibank or Barclays.
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If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
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If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
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You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to keep them guessing!
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It still costs them money to receive their mail shot back again..
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The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but it would be nice to overwhelm them.
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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!
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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.
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You get the idea!
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If enough people follow these tips, it will work.
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I have been doing this for sometime now, it does not take much time, and I get very little junk mail anymore.


                

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