When a telemarketers phones you, just say the three little words, 'Hold on, please...', while putting down your phone and walking off. Doing this 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 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset....you have effectively completed your 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 then 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, 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 the system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
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 postage IF and when they are returned. 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 advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express... they might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC... in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea! If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their blank application form... after all, it is their form! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you return. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all ... you are just returning it!!!!
Help AUSTRALIA POST! They are saying that e-mail is cutting into their profits. Let's help them so they will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
