Wanna Stop Telemarketers Annoying You ?

[OWZAT]

G`day Fellas ,

HOW GOOD IS THIS!!!!!

Three Little Words That Work!!

(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

so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the Telstra'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

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!!!

3: 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-prepaid return envelopes,

right?

It costs them more than the regular 50 cents postage "IF"

and when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that

case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in

these cool little, postage- prepaid return envelopes.

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.

Send a pizza coupon to Westpac.

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 $1.00

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 Australia Post 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 ----

maybe you'll get very little junk mail anymore.

THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD

TO YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

Mick

[Guest johblow]

OWZAT, i have three words for you - i love it!

[Dalucius]

I have my own little bit of fun with telemarketers.

I use to get quiet cranky when they would be so persistant.

We tried the 'hold on' line which was fun for a while but my newest one is...

When they ask to speak to me I ask them to hold while I get 'her'. Then I return speaking a made up language, no way could anyone understand me.

The first time the telmarketer said ' I understand, I will do that for you, thank you very much'. My husband thinks his supervisor must have been in earshot. We laughed for ages. Now they hang up on me and don't ring back for about a month. Then I do the same process. I actually hang up laughing rather than being frustrated.

Recently I read in Readers Digest a little story about a telemarketer who said it's no fun their side of the phone either. On the other end of the phone she had asked a young girl to speak to your parents, but instead was given a tour of her house. 'I see a book, a flower, a dog...,' Eventually her father took the phone allowing her to recit her sales pitch, he said 'hold on a minute' the next thing she heard was 'I see a table, a lamp, a refrigerator, a light...'

It cracks me up.

I now think we are the winners.

[OWZAT]

G`day Fellas,

Way to go Daly , but I have to admit , after getting on average 2 calls per day , I have to say I, have not had any calls since I used the - HASH KEY TRICK - !!.

Mick

[caine]

i live with a vietnamese australian named nguyen

the phone is in her name so when they ring,, they ask for MR NGUYEN

and i have lots of fun pretending to be a elderly viet man with bad english and bad maners

[Dalucius]

I'll try the ## next time and see what happens.

[Penguin]

Some beauties there

I especialy like no.3 send em back junk mail.

penguin