Tips for handling telemarketers

[Narrock]

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 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.

[Diekan]

Here's a good tip.




















just hang up.

[Jay]

I get a telemarketer call once every couple of weeks or so. I'm just nice to them and tell them I'm not interested. I dunno when it became the cool thing to do to hang up on them or be rude.

[tikigod]

Because people think its fun to be asses to people who are just doing there job. I work in a call center but I only take incoming calls thankfully. It’s a boring, crappie job, but for college kids, or people who didn’t go to college in general it’s pretty good money.

Being mean to them makes as much sense as telling to UPS guy or the pizza guy to screw themselves. Or like telling road crew workers to go to hell, and I personally find road construction much more annoying then telemarketers.

[Martrae]

I only get rude if they won't shut up once I've said no. If they follow up on my 'not interested' with a 'but' or a 'did I mention' or anything other than "Ok, you have a nice day" I'll get testy or just hang up depending on the time of the month.

[Diekan]

Your post makes zero sense. The UPS or pizza guy comes to my home because I want them too. Because I have paid for something that the are delivering. I didn't ask for someone to call me in the middle of the night to annoy the shit out of me trying to sell some bullshit that if I REALLY wanted I'd have looked up online and bought on my own. It's no different than someone beating on my door early Sunday morning trying to drag me off to their church.

Oh and you SHOULD tell road workers to go to hell - most of the time those lazy fucks are intentionally taking their time to draw out the contract to make more money.

By the way, nothing personal - I'm in a bad mood today in case you all cant tell.

[Harrison]

I have a field day with telemarketers.

I place virus writers, spam sources, popups, telemarketers, and women all at the bottom rung of my ladder of shit.

[Yamori]

Telemarketers are purposefully invading and interrupting you in your home. UPS/Pizza/ect people are there because they're providing you with a payed service that you asked for. World of difference.

That said, those guys are just trying to make their living and I'm sure it blows for them to be calling a bunch of people who hate them. Imo it's a good policy to just be polite... they only deserve rudeness or mindgames if they won't take no for an answer.

[Yamori]

As far as sending junk mail shit back to those people and wasting their money, that's a great idea. I'm gonna start doing that.

[Sithos]

Ask the telemarketer to take your name and number off the call list. If asked to do so they by law have to remove it from their D-Base

[araby]

Yah, I haven't had to deal with telemarketers since having cell phones. But when I had a land line, I just asked them to take me off their list, make sure they heard me, and then hang up. I never wanted to be rude, but it's safe to say that you almost always had to just to get off of the phone without hanging up on them.

[Narrock]

The other thing you can do is get on the National Do Not Call Registry. I've only had 1 violater since I put my numbers on that list.

[Maeya]

Hasn't done shit for our number. Hell, I've even gotten telemarking calls from Comcast, and we've been a Comcast customer for years.


That being said, I really do try my hardest to say "No" firmly, but politely. They've got a shitty enough job without me adding to it.

[Tuggan]

i just dont answer the phone if i dont know the number if its important and i didnt answer, they can leave a message with the machine... thats what they're for.

[Dylan]

That's all stupid ass shit, if you get too much junk mail and telemarketer calls, stop fucking signing up for the "Win a ferrari!" contests at the mall and ordering porn.

[Gargamellow]

my dad sent me that email like a yr ago..get with the times!
just kidding it was funny shit when i read it also

[Narrock]

That's all stupid ass shit, if you get too much junk mail and telemarketer calls, stop fucking signing up for the "Win a ferrari!" contests at the mall and ordering porn.

Don't fill out any contest where it asks what your family's combined income is. That question is on any entry form when you see the car parked in the mall that you can "win." It's a scam.

[tikigod]

I know that my example was terrible, but I just picked that to help illustrated that it is your fault that they are calling you in the first place, because you never put your name on the do not call list, or because you answered the phone, and I can assure you that they don’t want to talk to you anymore then you do them.

[brinstar]

i don't get those calls on my cell phone, with one exception

every few months i get a call asking me about my timeshare

every time i say "i don't own a timeshare, this is a cellphone, please take my number off your list, thank you" and then i hang up

[Hatak]

i just dont answer the phone if i dont know the number if its important and i didnt answer, they can leave a message with the machine... thats what they're for.

Screenmaster 5000... that's what I do also.

[Diekan]

hey brin, how is your timeshare? you want to rent it out this winter?