Andy Rooney's TIPS FOR 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 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 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 dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.


THIS IS THE BEST ONE

(3) Another Good Idea: 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!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junk back in the mail.

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!

Here is another one ask the caller for there # so you can return there call.

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I'm bookmarking this for future reference! haha

OK HERE IS SOMETHING THAT I HAD TO DO ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS DEBT BIG TIME.AS WE ALL KNOW THEY CALL AND CALL AND CALL SO FINALLY HERE IS WHAT I SAID"LISTEN LADY EVERY MONTH I STICK EVERY ONES NAME IN A HAT AND I HOLD A DRAWING AND I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO PAY EVERYONE AT ONCE SO I DO A DRAWING NOW IF YOU CALL ME AGAIN YOU WILL BE OUT OF THE DRAWING FOR GOOD AND HAVE NO CHANCE OF WINNING AND GETTING A PAYMENT SHE HUNG UP ON ME.LMAO

I am so going to remember that one

HAHA I just did the "Hold on please" to someone. They actually hung up within a minute, I just put them on mute and waited to see if they would say anything else or how long it would take them to hang up. Here in southern Cali we get Spanish telemarketers too. I have been trying to think of something to do for them. I guess i could just say uno momento and do the same, but meh. One time they called and I was like que paso? and the guy started going on and on, so I hung up lol.

I cannot wait to try some of this stuff!!

I keep getting calls where they are trying to fax me something. Got any ideas on that one? I googled the number and there are alot of people having the same problem with that company.

that is great...does it work???

NOPE LOL THEY JUST HAD A MAN START CALLING LMAO