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.