Reply With QuoteGeeze man people are just trying to make a living and following the American dream.
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.
(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!
Geeze man people are just trying to make a living and following the American dream.
sign up on the do not call registry (https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx) and you wont need to deal with telemarketers.i have been on it since the beginning and the only time my phone rings is when its someone i know, or the occasional wrong number.
I just ask them after their pitch if they want to buy a slightly used, sunk once v-drive and it usually goes silent after that.........( . )( . ).......... :crossx:
This link usually helps for them AND prank calls!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/soundboards.shtml
Nice Mark
I've always sent the junk back when they send a stamped return envelope. It's fun.
I recently got a new phone that has a "telemarketer zapper" on it. SOmehow it know's when the call is coming from a computer and it just hangs up on them.
Phuck those terds.
mirvin
Geeze man people are just trying to make a living and following the American dream.
Hey buddy.. whens the last time you made a cold call :messedup:
Hey buddy.. whens the last time you made a cold call :messedup:
1992, Referrals from great people like you are much easier! People can be F'n rude when you cold call.
When they ask if I am home, I reply No (how the helll do they know)
Next when they ask what would be a good time to call, I say 8-5 M-F (while I am at work) LOL
I ask them if they are happy with their job.... :rollside:
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