Nubus November 15, 2004 Share Nubus Member November 15, 2004 I was sent this the other day and am going to try out some of these ideas to see if they really work. 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. 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 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox November 15, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member November 15, 2004 My grandfather used to get telemarketers on, prompt them a bit ("oh, really? Yeah?") and then ask them to tell him all about the deal, leave out no details, and then leave the phone off the hook and continue doing whatever work he was doing. I heard he once had someone going over five minutes before they realized it was a dead line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huhuh? November 16, 2004 Share huhuh? Member November 16, 2004 i just usually screw profainaties at the telemarketer i love the junk mail ideas could put a bunch of weird pictures in them...or ask them to donate money to your personal paypal account...or the fragfest paypal account hmmm i see a way to get some funds for fragfest...everyone that recieves these send them back with a request for donations ot the fragfest paypal account! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty November 16, 2004 Share Fatty GC Founder November 16, 2004 There's some good thought in that. I like to hand the phone to my 4 year old though too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueless November 16, 2004 Share Clueless GC Alumni November 16, 2004 Jim Florentine has a CD called Terrorizing Telemarketers, it's hilarious, you guys should pick it up and give it a listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage November 16, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests November 16, 2004 There's some good thought in that. I like to hand the phone to my 4 year old though too.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I did that once and the results were funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy November 16, 2004 Share Jiffy Member November 16, 2004 i talk to all of them in german, now THAT is funny stuff to hear their confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyFromHell`X November 16, 2004 Share CowboyFromHell`X Member November 16, 2004 If they're guys I just hit on them. You can do that right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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