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Skriven 2004-09-28 04:58:16 av Greg Sears (1:153/307)
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Ärende: Andy Rooney's tips
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AndyRooney's tips for fighting the telemarketers

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
ofhanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much
moretime-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.


 Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,
youknow it is time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficientlycompleted 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 andrecords
the time of day when a person answers the phone.

 This technique is 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
toimmediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as
quicklyas possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks
yournumber out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in
theirsystem 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 mailaway.


 When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything
fromcredit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away
thereturn envelope.


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


  It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when
theyreceive them back.

  It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50
centsbefore the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case,
whynot 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
pizzacoupon to Citibank. If you did not get anything else that day, then just
sendthem their blank application back!


  If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name is not on
anythingyou send them.

  You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep
themguessing! It still costs them 37 cents.

  The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
ownjunk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let us let
themknow what it is like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're
payingfor it...Twice!

  Let us help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail
iscutting into their business profits, and that is why they need to
increasepostage 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.



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