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Great tips for handling telemarketers!
Every so often you actually get some useful junk from the parents.
Andy Rooney's CBS Newsman Tips for Handling Telemarketers etc
Three Little Tips 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 37 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 37 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.
Hilarious, I'm gonna be mailing everything back.. hahahaah
"Thanks James. Go fuck your mother."
HAHA That movie rocked.
P.S. My dad told the Crystal Springs guy once that we didn't drink water. 
lol awesome, go dad.
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| Originally posted by Irishaddict we didn't drink water |
So who do I send this thread to
I've been getting calls on my CELL PHONE from, I assume, a telemarketer. It's a 1-866 number...I NEVER answer it but perhaps I should? I don't know. But they call me 3 TIMES A DAY! It started before Christmas and they call at LEAST 2 times if not 3. Once I actually answered it and hung up, and they called right BACK! Most of the time I'm working and I really do miss the call but still....I can't believe they have my CELL phone # !!!
i get calls on my cell phone at all kinds of odd hours and it just beeps... thanks a lot for the tips, i will see if they work.
i will have to mail out some of my junk out now!!
i used to scare them away by saying "i'll call authorities if they don't stop calling my house b/c i've received calls from them every day", even though they prolly called my house first time!
right on! stick it to the man
the most annoying is the messages i get in my cell phone voicemails without ever having received a call... some recording: "Are you debt?... " blah blah blah
^^ ya ya i facking hate those sooo much
"are you in debt? are you having a difficulty maintaining financial stability blah blah blah"
like they will fucking help me get financial stability!! morons!!
The WORST is Boris the mover....I HATE that guy .....
Haha tha'ts funny...I have another one of these...but it listed like a bunch of stupid silly things to do. These are actual legit and may work!
I always tell the them I'm underage therefore I can't make any legal decisions. They immediately ask for my parents. So I say they come from work at midnight and are too tired to attend to phonecalls at that time. That always gets them!
Re: Great tips for handling telemarketers!
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| Originally posted by Platipus (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 !!! ( |
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| Originally posted by ChemEnhanced So who do I send this thread to |
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| Originally posted by stevieboy32808 I always tell the them I'm underage therefore I can't make any legal decisions. They immediately ask for my parents. So I say they come from work at midnight and are too tired to attend to phonecalls at that time. That always gets them! |
Re: Great tips for handling telemarketers!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Platipus
Every so often you actually get some useful junk from the parents.
Andy Rooney's CBS Newsman Tips for Handling Telemarketers etc
Three Little Tips That Work!!
(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
thats way too funny...true that!
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| Originally posted by Mandrick_v Lol, nobody ever spoken any english in my house, I always ask for Tibetian or Azerbadghanian traslator...seems to work. The most anoying thing is spam faxes. How do I stop those... |
Best one I've heard was how to annoy The Toronto Star or some other local rag...
Question:
"Would you like to subscribe?"
Response:
"But I'm not opening a fish store..."
...some of you will get that later... 
lol
I bet that stumps most of them
Ahhh... good times with phone solicitors...
By the way, to the charity telemarketer who suggested just being polite and ask to be taken off their list - that tactic, only works with the most ethically run telemarketing centres - I have had far too many occurences where I have requested removal, and wind up getting three and four additional calls in a short period of time. What winds up happening is that you get flagged in the database, just encouraging more calls.
If I'm going to be disturbed by a telemarketer, I want to be the one having the fun.
The last time somebody called me, I told them that I was in the middle of a porn shoot and they were interrupting the 'money shot'.
Another time, I took my lead from the film 'Boiler Room'. I made the Toronto Star rep go through his entire speil, critiqued him on it, made him do it again, then told him I was a Globe and Mail subscriber.
Asking female telemarketers to sleep with you is a great way to get them to stop calling you - It doesn't count as an obscene phone call because they called you. This is equally disturbing with guys. I made an East Indian telemarketer go apoplectic when I hit on him. He spent the next five minutes yelling at me!
The best way to get rid of market research surveyors (exception: Statistics Canada - you have to talk to them) is to tell them that you work for a market research firm. It automatically makes you ineligible for their survey and they're obliged to hang up and take you off the list.
I have used the 'hold one moment' technique and it works brilliantly. The more persistent the telemarketer the better - he'll stay on your line for twenty minutes.
In the middle of the introductory small talk, tell the old 'The Aristocrats' joke (See film of the same name for proper delivery). The nastier the better!
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