[guide.chat] Fw: PROBABLY THE MOST USEFUL EMAIL WE HAVE EVER RECEIVED! - LETS GO FOL...

  • From: "elaine nutley" <e.nutley@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "Jane Balmforth" <janieb1958@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Debbie Berkinshaw" <darrenanddebi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ann Coleman" <m.acoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Nicola Daley" <n_daly@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Mike Douel" <m.douel@xxxxxxx>, "Claire Evans" <claire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Marion Foster" <marion331@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jenny Furnell" <jenifer.furnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Wendy Gentle" <wendygentle@xxxxxxxxxx>, "bob griffiths" <bobgriff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Guide Chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Gina Mousley" <ginamousley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Peter Nutley" <p.nutley@xxxxxxx>, "Shirley Springett" <tripleckickerswdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Joyce Welsh" <j_welsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:15:27 -0000

                      REVENGE ON THE TELEMARKETER 

                      Three Little Words That Work!! 

                      (1) The three little words: '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 BT's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, 
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset....you have efficiently 
completed your task.. 
                      These three little words could 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 record's the time of day when a person answers the phone. 

                      This technique is then used to determine the best time of 
day for a 'real' salesperson 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 dialled 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) 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-prepaid return envelopes, 
right?
                      It costs them more than the regular postage 'IF' and when 
they are returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, 
why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool 
little, postage-prepaid return envelopes. 

                      Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American 
Express... they might need one! 
                      Send a pizza coupon to HSBC... in case their canteen 
packs up. You get the idea. 
                      If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send 
them back their blank application form... after all, it is their form! 

                      If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name 
isn't on anything you return. 

                      You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to 
just to keep them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after 
all. you are just returning it!!!! 

                      The banks and credit card companies are currently getting 
a lot of their own junk back in the post, but folks....we need to OVERWHELM 
them, in order to stop 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 Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail is 
saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so 
they will not need to increase postage costs again.. You get the idea! 

                      If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- 
maybe you'll get very little junk mail anymore. 

                      THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO 
FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!! 
                   
             
     
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