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A good friend sent me this, made me chuckle:
Tips For Handling Telesales Callers & Junk Mail
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
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.
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 dialled
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!!!
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 24p postage "IF" and when they receive them
back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was
around 29p 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 their postage paid return envelopes.
For example; 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 24p.
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!
Brian Mole - Professional DJ
Mob: 0794 119 1194
Stylish and exclusive discotheque service for weddings, civil partnerships, birthdays, and corporate events in and around Horsham
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Some good and funny tips there Brian. I don’t get to many nuisance calls nowadays. I registered with the Telephone Preference Service a few years back and that cut out about 99% of these calls. I believe there is a Mailing Preference Service that will cut out junk mail, I haven’t yet tried it. All we need now is something to cut out Kleeneze, Betterware etc.. You know the people that put an unsolicited catalogue through your door, don’t collect it when they say and then get all upset when you throw it in the bin. I have lost count of the number of times I have told them I don’t want these catalogues, the problem is the agents only seem to last a few weeks and the next ones just turn up pushing more unsolicited catalogues through my door. What really annoys me is they seem to wait until I am sleeping off a night shift when they start hammering the door down demanding their catalogues back. 
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Quality tips! a friend of mine wound up a double glazing salesman so bad he thought he had a £20000 sale on the phone. my friend said he wanted a conservatory built etc. The salesman was already patting himself on the back when he asked for the address, it was only when my friend replied 67 Grosvenor heights, 5th floor, that the penny finally dropped!
Crawley Carpet Cleaning Carpet Cleaning Crawley
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Great tips! I wonder how long they would 'hold' on the telephone. They expect us to hold when we call them with problems so I don't see why we shouldn't return the favour!
Lisa - Magazine Offers with www.magsite.co.uk 
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| thanks for information,registration within a few minutes. Walter
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You can also opt out of all that unaddressed junk mail that the postman puts through your door. This made the headlines recently when a postman was suspended for informing all of his customers about this. The direct link is here:
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I've been returning credit card applications since you told us last year, Brian. Not sure if it's working yet, but if it costs them money, that's good!
Twinkle
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