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(Message started by: Jonny on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 3:21pm)

Title: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by Jonny on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 3:21pm

Andy Rooney 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 e ventually 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:This is the best one...LOL

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 41 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was 39 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, wh y 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 41 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!

NOW HAVE SOME FUN....LMAO ;;D

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by phil_h on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 3:54pm

[smiley=crackup.gif] [smiley=smokin.gif] [smiley=crackup.gif] [smiley=bunnybash.gif] Nice post , thank you . ;) phil h

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by Jonny on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 4:32pm

LMAO....now they dont want your password, they just want the answers to your security questions.....LOL ;;D

Does anyone ever fall for this shit?

From: Citizens Bank
Date: 11/22/07 04:33:11
To: Jonnymford
Subject: Citizens Bank reminder: please update your data! (message id: IG4825113294)

Dear business/corporate customer of Citizens Bank,

Caution: we continue to be informed that customers and non-customers are receiving fraudulent phishing emails requesting confidential information and credentials. As a reminder, the bank will NOT send customers unsecured email or other correspondence requesting that they confirm or provide Customer ID's User ID's, card numbers, social security number or PINs and passwords. As always, if you receive any unsolicited e-mails, phone calls, faxes or other suspicious attempts to gain personal or confidential information, please e-mail us at fraudprevention@cfgcustomers.com or call Cash Management Client Services at 1-877-550-5933, Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. For Additional information please see the events page

For security measures, we require you to confirm your challenge questions:LINK REMOVED BY ME!

Sincerely,
Citizens Bank Online Billing Services Team

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I removed the link so no one clicked on it!

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by Annette on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 4:44pm

LOL! Jonny, good suggestion.

One of my friends who has a business does the same, but she puts her own leaflet advertising her company into these envelopes and send them back. Why not get them to subsidise your own advertising? She said it helps her circulate up to an extra 300 or so leaflets per year at no cost !

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by schaan on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 11:57pm

very cool idea

i like the idea of sending them my adertisements.

cant wait for the mail tommorow !!!!

BRILLIANT !!!!!

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by artonio7 on Nov 23^rd, 2007, 4:11am

Couldn't you just use the postage paid return envelopes for other stuff? Just paste a new address and return address over the existing preprinted stuff.

hmmmm...

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by SoldiersWife on Nov 23^rd, 2007, 10:26am

That's great Jonny...I LOVE it. I will have some fun. At least I can annoy them back.

I have made telemarketers hang up on me though!! Answer their questions with questions...or say NOTHING. ;;D

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by LeLimey on Nov 23^rd, 2007, 11:52am

I've been doing both for years but my favourite trick with telemarketers is to automatically keep referring to them as one of their alternatives - ie if Visa rang me I keep saying so you're mastercard aren't you - but I already have a mastercard and just playing a real idiot.. its hilarious. Either that or I try to convert them to the one true religion.. I never actually tell them what it is I just keep asking them if they are followers of the one true religion and telling them they should never eat pork because it comes from cows.. I can amuse myself at their expense for HOURS!

I think I'm blacklisted now though as I rarely get telemarketers anymore :(

Title: Re: Oh, I love this...LOL
Post by Charlie on Nov 23^rd, 2007, 9:34pm

Nice Jonny.

You dredged up some nice memories. As kids we used to send the prepaids all over the place. Just about everything had prepaid envelopes 40 years ago.

A few times, not with prepaids, we used to send letters to one another with no stamp but reversed the return address with the address. Fun for kids at the time.

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