telephone conversation
"Hello?"
"Good evening, sir. Do you read the Record?"
"Nope, sorry. Not interested."
"But I just asked a question. I haven't even offered you anything. How do you know you're not interested?"
"Oh, but you're going to."
"How do you know?"
"I just had that feeling."
"I just wanted to know if you read the Record at all."
...
"If I told you it was a sale and not a subscription, would that get you interested?"
"Nope, sorry. Thanks anyway."
"Well, all right then. Thank you for your time."
"Good bye."
*sigh*. Why do I even have a phone?
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Dan
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Comedy or tragedy? I can't decide.
Submitted 2004-03-09 15:08:48
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tinkerer
writes:
More to the point, why don't you have an answering machine or, if you do, why aren't you using it? My message says outright, "this number does not accept sales calls, so if that's why you're calling hang up *now*. Friends and legitimate business, please leave a message and I'll be happy to pick up if I'm able or call back if I'm not."
I don't get too many sales calls anymore. ;>
Submitted 2004-03-09 18:46:03
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Here's something that was emailed to me about a week ago that works well for these kinds of situations.
Subject: try this. it works
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.
(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.
(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.
Submitted 2004-03-09 20:22:06
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Yvon
<tss@loves-chii.com> writes:
I saw an idea somewhere about sending back the return envelope with other junk mail stuffed inside it. If anything, it makes a great way to save on garbage bags...
Submitted 2004-03-10 19:47:00
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Yvon
<tss@loves-chii.com> writes:
BTW Squirrel.. Congrats on the iBook. I picked up a used Dual USB 500MHz one a few months ago and I love it. Threw a 40GB HD in it.. and i'm yet to overclock it, but it's playing my DivX movies just fine for the most part. The RAM that came with it was enough (392MB) for most uses.. Just bought the 5-client pack for Panther, and happen to be using Office X, XCode, Photoshop 7 and some other neat stuff. Bliss. I'm looking to get a PowerBook G4 soon. With that, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo IM and other goodies, I see no reason to fire up the XP box again. Oh joy. Write soon.
Submitted 2004-03-10 19:56:18
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Woo Hoo, it's Spring Break and it feels like it too. 71 degrees Monday, 60+ degrees that last few days and Sunny, Sunny, Sunny...Oh, almost forgot to adjust the tempature for the Canadians, that would be a whole lot warmer than there.
Submitted 2004-03-11 22:02:41
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