Telemarketing/Junk Mail - Page 1

I have used several methods to annoy the telemarketers.  I have sang to them, talked in funny accents, made them repeat everything ten times, used the Jerry Seinfeld method of asking for their home #, but I found one that really works.  I let them get in a few minutes of their monolog when I cut them off.  I then start my monolog of items that I have for sale.  Most of you can use puppies or dogs.  I don't give the person a second to interrupt.  I give them all the info available and tell them of the benefits to owning one of my dogs/puppies.  When I am done, I ask for a cashier's check.  They immediately tell me that they are not interested and they only called to sell me their garbage and act as though I am rude to try to sell them stuff they don't want on THEIR time.  Ironic, No?

I get too many credit card offers and the such.  It takes forever and a day to get them to stop sending you the garbage and from what I know, they minorly hurt your credit score.   I thought of a solution!  It may work, but it would take the participation of many.  I might be off on some of my plans, so if corrections are to be made, please chime in, but here goes!

In every credit card or BS offer sent to you, there is a pre-paid return envelope.  Now if I am not wrong, the company only pays postage if it is used.  Now I think these companies would be a bit hesitant if everyone used these envelopes to return a hand drawn picture of themselves naked at the park.  This would screw them on two levels.  They would be paying millions of $ on postage and they would have to pay their employees to sift through juvenille pictures of naked people.

Just some thoughts!

David Webb

For telemarketers I have read to pretend you could not hear them...  "Hello?  Hellooo????  HELLOOOOOO???????  Is anybody there???????"

Someplace I read where somebody would put a notecard with pennies taped to it in the return postage envelopes and mail them back.  A few pennies are pretty heavy........ 

Hey Don,

What I have done, I'll answer, when they ask for "so and so" I'll tell them to hold on a sec, pretend to call "so and so" into the room, and tell the telemarketers that "so and so" will be there in a minute, and leave them on the table. I've had one person actually still on the phone waiting 30 minutes later!