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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:29
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I'll try this instead.
This should be posted with important household info!
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.
Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
(3) Another Good Idea:
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 37cents 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!
Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their
own junk back in the mail.
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.
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Mordoch
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Denver, Colorado
Jan 2002
time: 05:29
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quote:
Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
A state progam can only regulate in state to in state calls. |
This is actually wrong. Just the other day, Colorado's DA went after a California company for do not call list violations. (Its $2000 in fines for each reported violation, and $10,000 each if the victim is over 60!) The Colorado law is quite effective, the only noticible exception to the law is non-profit organizations and they call rather rarely. Over 1.1 million numbers are on the Colorado do not call list, and its probably the most popular law EVER passed by the state government.
http://www.gryphonnetworks.com/regu...il.asp?state=CO
Last edited by Mordoch on 28-06-2003 at 11:46
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Mordoch
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Denver, Colorado
Jan 2002
time: 05:29
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quote:
Originally posted by The diplomat
The state gov doesn't have to do anything either. If they want to, fine, if they don't, also fine. It is not a big problem!
The bottom line is that I don't think the fed gov should do it. The fed gov should focus on their constitutional responsabilities like foreign affairs, trade etc... not trivial matters like petty telemarketers or spam email.
Why is it that whenever a group has the smallest problem, they run to the federal government? Our society is becoming like a spoiled child that cries to its parents whenever it gets a scratch. |
What you are missing is that without any state law, you have essentially no recourse if a telemarketer calls. You MIGHT be able to sue, but the odds of collecting any money are really remote. Strategies such as telemarketer blocking devices and keeping your number unlisted have only limited success and inconvenience the individual citizen. Telemarketers take up people's valuable time and tie up their phone lines trying to sell items which the majority of us have no intention of purchasing. Telemarketers also attempt to confuse and trick their victims, particularly the elderly into making foolish purchases. Its certainly the right of the government to make laws which are for the benefit of society as a whole and strongly supported by its citizenry. Spam has the potential to eventually make email unusable and it certainly makes sense for the government to take steps to deal with this problem.
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27-06-2003 18:51
. I wish we had the same in the EU.
I'm sure they'll be eager to give it to you considering the $11,000 fine a violation incurs.
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