Tips for Handling Telemarketers

hoefler

Well-known member
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 44 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 44 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!
 

jmgratz

Original Owners Club Member
All great ideas. The words I use to the telemarketer are "Put me on your 'do not call' list". They will then hang up. I save all of the envelope that come with various mails and also the 'fall out' cards in magazines and send them back to the companies in their pre-paid envelopes. We should make this a national movement.
 

Bob&Patty

Founders of SoCal Chapter
These are great ideas. We also just leave the "answering machine" on all the time. It hangs up on the "electronic telemarketers"...I dont have get out of my chair.
 

traveler44

Well-known member
I had a friend who told me that when people called him asking if he would mind answering questions for surveys he would say--" sure I charge $25.00 a minute for that and if you will give me your name and where to send the bill I will start my timer right now". I guess you know they decided that their surveys weren't that important afterall. Tom M.
 
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