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作者: utopia    時間: 2008-1-24 16:09     標題: Tips for Handling 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. 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 we ight. 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 39 cents.

The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of thei R 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 !
作者: myversa    時間: 2008-1-24 16:52

I always pretend I am kids and say my parents are not home.  They will ask when will they be come, and I reply with I do not  know.  They will hang up.  
作者: raima    時間: 2008-1-24 20:26

or just say you're under 18, and you're the only person at home. they'll go away quickly.
作者: notgoddy    時間: 2008-1-24 22:41

You don't have to be nice and polite, those people know their job is annoying. Just say "don't call back", and hang up.
作者: pkphilip    時間: 2008-1-24 23:13

These techniques are nice to know and fun to read, but not too practical and produces a lot of waste (time, money).

Bear in mind that the budget for promotion is fixed and allocated, by sending junk back to sender does not mean they will stop doing it in the future. Even with 1% return rate, it's still worth while to call/send.

Philip
作者: hunny_master    時間: 2008-1-24 23:26

原帖由 myversa 於 2008-1-24 16:52 發表
I always pretend I am kids and say my parents are not home.  They will ask when will they be come, and I reply with I do not  know.  They will hang up.  


haha...me too..i also pretend to be a kid
i would also say that they have got the wrong number or pretend that i don't speak/understand english.."sorry, me no english"
作者: puZZle    時間: 2008-1-25 00:26

原帖由 myversa 於 2008-1-24 16:52 發表
I always pretend I am kids and say my parents are not home.  They will ask when will they be come, and I reply with I do not  know.  They will hang up.  


lol u can make a kid's voice?!
作者: hoshi    時間: 2008-1-25 08:33

99% of the time I would hang up even before the other party finished the first sentence.

I don't want you to waste my time so I won't waste yours either.  
作者: 華美子    時間: 2008-1-25 16:16

I think legally you have the right to request them to delete your contact info from their list, and they have to do that as per your request.  I think this is some privacy act that gives us this right.



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