Instant cash for your house! Whats this all about?
Leaflet in mail. We will buy your house for cash and rent it back to you! …… Hello…………. . Our house is rented from the local council. Do you think they would mind if we sold it? Seriously what do you think of junk mail and phone calls from double glazing and new kitchen folk. How do you chase them away?
here is some good advice about this……………………
How to defeat telemarketing
Tips for Handling Telemarketers
(1)Three Little Words That Work
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 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) Junk Mail Help:
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 24p postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 29p 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 their postage-paid return envelopes.
For example; 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! It still costs them 24p!
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM 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 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 !
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
the dog does it lol
Take your phone number out of the phone book, that tends to do the trick with the cold callers.
We are getting electric companies doing the rounds where we live – and I’ve just changed suppliers!
our previous prime ministers house went up for sale by the chasers(tv show pranksters)last week,it was funny.It was on the net.I rent and i always get calls to update my home stuff,i should give them the neighbours address,so they can send out someone.cheers
A spam of some kind.
the SYSTEM
mail save all prepaid envelopes and return with other junk mail-that way they pay the postage and lose cash
phone calls just put phone down and leave them talking it`s their time and money
if you get a cold call at your house say `can you wait i`m changing the baby or if older `just started with flu and every one i have spoke to seems to have it now`
hope these help
i use to have a major problem as that…i got annoyed and moved!!!did not know what to do when after about a week…i got the same problem coming into the new place and even at a worst rate = (
I have a sign over my letterbox saying ‘ No Fliers’. It doesn’t stop them unfortunately.
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is the central opt out register on which you can record your preference not to receive unsolicited sales and marketing telephone calls to your home or mobile telephone numbers. It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent to do so.
Organisations with which you have an ongoing relationship, for example those who regard you as a customer, (or in the case of charities – a donor) may well gather your consent during the early stages of your relationship with them and will therefore be entitled to call you even if your number is registered on TPS, unless you have previously told them specifically that you object to them calling you for marketing purposes.
The TPS can accept the registration of mobile telephone numbers, however it is important to note that this will prevent the receipt of marketing voice calls but not SMS (text) messages. If you wish to stop receiving SMS marketing messages, please send an ‘opt-out’ request to the company involved.
As TPS registration only prevents marketing calls, organisations will still be able to call you for the purposes of genuine market research.
Before you register with TPS…
It is worth reflecting on the fact that registering may well prevent you from receiving relevant and worthwhile information. For instance charities find telemarketing to be an economical way to raise awareness and much needed support.
If you are happy to receive telemarketing calls from some companies but not others, contact the companies who you do not wish to hear from and ask them to remove your details from their call lists. All companies – including charities and voluntary organisations – are required to respect your wishes.
To reduce/stop addressed direct marketing mail
Mailing Preference Service
Freepost 29 LON20771
London
W1E 0ZT
Tel: 084…
Web: Mailing Preference Service
To reduce/stop unaddressed (i.e to the occupier/householder) mail and leaflets delivered by Royal Mail
Royal Mail Door to Door Opt Out Dept.
Room 130
Wheatstone House
Faraday Rd
Swindon, SN3 5JW
Tel: 01793 483853
Email: optout@royalmail.co.uk or mediacentre.customer.service@royalmail.co.uk
Chase them away with the help of the dog.They are a spammer
in Internet no one can hook anymore that is why they change their operandi.