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    Ya hate telemarketers junk snail mail???

    Got this today in an email and this is the only email chain or what ever you wanna call it that makes some sense to me so thought Id share. Who knows maybe you already got it.






    Andy Rooney's Tips for Handling Telemarketers

    Three Little Words That Work !!

    (1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."

    Saying this, while putting down your phon e 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 w! ith 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 you r # 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.

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    Andy Rooney is the man......

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    good read im remembering that shittt

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    Yeahyuh!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Glad ya's like spread the word.
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    brilliant!

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    actually, i have done that before..

    the put the phone down

    and send back advertising..

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    If you want to get your telephone # off telemarketers calls there is a national do not call website you can register or call up and make it so your number cannot be sold any more. About 60% of all numbers are registered now.

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