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Author | Topic: Dealing with Telemarketers & Junk Mail |
Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:28 AM
Tips for combatting telemarketers & junk mail TELEMARKETERS: Three Little Words That Work 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 !!!
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:33 AM
I like it....good ideas Bob..... |
pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:39 AM
Great ideas. I have been doing that with junk mail for a long time. I send it back and I try to make it kind of heavy with more paper. ------------------ More 'Pumpkin' photos . . . . . More cars and other stuff New pictures in Personal Scrapbook (02/23/03) "The Prowler is not a car to go from Point A to Point B. The Prowler is the Point!" |
Bob Goetz Prowler Junkie Posts: 2895 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:47 AM
When I get the siding and window guys on the phone I just send them to the empty lot across the street and then stand in the shop and watch as they measure up the house next door. My buddy Stu laughs his a$$ off when they stop in to give him the estimate and he tells them the address is the empty lot. ------------------ |
Midntrdr Prowler Junkie Posts: 140 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:51 AM
Brilliant!! |
DIXIE Cat Prowler Junkie Posts: 435 |
posted 09-21-2004 12:44 PM
Bob Miller.... Great ideas!! We get tons of junk mail at home & at the office. Can't wait to receive it now so I can put your suggestions in motion!! Nancy |
ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 09-21-2004 05:31 PM
Actually, I like the telephone solicitors. I am kind of lonely during the day while Sandy is working so it gives me someone to talk to. Plus, it helps our economy. If you destroy these jobs, Kerry will start harping on that, next. Keep Dubya in office, keep these people working. |
Scotty Prowler Junkie Posts: 861 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:06 PM
I saw a news article about using prisoners for telemarketers so when I get a call I ask what they are in prison for ... when they say they are not in prison I tell them I saw it on the nightly news and it is okay they can tell me what they are in for ... if they haven't hung up by now I start probing ... was it a rape? ... did you kill someone? ... did you rob a store? It is fun to have them hang up on you ... you might want to try it. |
CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 09-21-2004 10:20 PM
I've experienced all of the above and I am going to try every one of those ideas! Priceless!! |
DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 09-22-2004 12:07 PM
Very good ideas... Telemarketers used to call at a decent hour,but now it seems they call anytime....received a junk call last night at home after 10 P.M. and I don't think he'll be calling back anytime soon... Bob....that's so mean.....and so funny! |
Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 09-22-2004 02:16 PM
The only thing marketing firms understand is $$-COST-$$. So if you hurt them where it counts, they'll back off. |
YellowFever unregistered Posts: 4576 |
posted 09-22-2004 05:59 PM
Our approach is alot simpler. We screen all calls when we are home. If we don't recognize the number, we let the answering machine deal with them. After 9, we cut all phones off except one in the library so they can call at 3 in the morning and it won't bother us. |
Dave Mills Prowler Junkie Posts: 5419 |
posted 09-22-2004 06:05 PM
We can usually tell if the call is a telemarketer, we just tell them that whoever they are asking for isn't home. I use the junk mail to start a fire in my burn ring when I am burning up brush, leaves, and grass. |
JKrehel Prowler Junkie Posts: 688 |
posted 09-23-2004 01:13 AM
Mike favorite way to deal with phone telemarketers, is to say he's busy at this moment but if they would please give him their home number he'll gladly call them back later. Some break up laughing |
RBADKAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 583 |
posted 09-23-2004 01:55 AM
You want to send a real message about Junk mail, glue the postage paid envelope to a "Brick". The post office will look at you funny, but they have to take it. Do put your return address, see how quickly they take you off there mailing address. It works. Dan G. |
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