How good is this?

[Elaine]

REVENGE ON THE TELEMARKETER & JUNK MAILERS

(1) The three little words: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off(instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call somuch more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear BT's "beep-beep-beep"tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset .... you have efficiently completed your task.

These three little words could help eliminate telephonesoliciting.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one onthe 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 then used to determine the best time of day for a
"real" salesperson 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 7times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled thecall and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame notto have your name in their system any longer!!!


3: When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail foreverything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-prepaid return envelopes, right?

It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when theyare returned.It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, whynot get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these coollittle, postage-prepaid return envelopes.

Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express ... they might need one!
Send a pizza coupon to HSBC ... in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea.

If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their blank application form ... after all, it is their form!

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you return.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all ... you are just returning it!!!!

The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lotof their own junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in order to stop 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 Royal Mail busy. Sincethe Royal Mail are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they will not needto increase postage costs again. You get the idea!

If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybeyou'll get very little junk mail anymore.

THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE THAT YOU WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

[Erin]

Brilliant Elaine,Im guilty of doing number one!!!!!
will have to try the other out now

[Fran]

Excellent advice!!!

[Mags]

Brilliant advice, I think I'll follow some of those tips!

[Erin]

number 1 is the best i always let them start telling me what they are selling,i sound really interested then just put the phone on the side and carry on doing what ever i was doing ,the once i did this i went back to the phone about 15 mins later and they are still there going "miss galloway are you there" so i left it there for another 15 mins

[Animagus]

heheheh sounds like fun.... and really sneaky but fun lol m,ight give it a go