The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Some days I dread the post, it's always bills. Then you get bright spots like today. Two envelopes both looking like bills. Open the first and its debtbusters bull$#!t - Consolidate your debt with us we'll lower you monthly payments, you'll be debt free by the time you are 136 years young. Bloody junk mail. Still, it's not all bad as there's a first class reply paid envelope so I'll do my bit for keeping the post office busy by retuning it with the next piece of junk mail that arrives. Open envelop two and it's loans.co.uk with the same story and another first class return envelope. So I shred the parts with details on and you can guess the rest No bills yay! It's the little things that keep you sane.

Tinweevil

_________________
1978 Pageant Sprint - the rustomite, 1972 Spitfire IV - sprintfire project, 1968 Valencia GT6 II - little Blue, 1980 Vermillion 1500HL - resting. 1974 Sienna 1500TC, Mrs Weevils big brown.

Me dad used to and still does exactly that.

He used to work for the Post Office as well!!

Wouldn't say he's entirely sane though

My Grampa is forver winding up telemarketers

I do the same put put the takeaway menus in the envolope as well making it overweight so the company get to pay the excess postage.

A window /conservatory company rang my brother in law, 20 minutes later the annoying telesales oik thinking he has a sell gets asked.....

how do you fit a conservatory to a 3rd floor flat? telesales oik hung up never to be heard from again

Some of the junk mail companies are getting wise to this however, and putting unique identifier numbers on the envelopes so they can see who has been sending them....

We've signed up to the telephone preference service, and fingers crossed, it appears to be working. Most junk mail goes straight in the bin without being opened.

and if send back their own envolope without altering the address on the front you are not doing anything wrong?
is that what the barcode on the return envopoe is on some of them?

I used to do the 3rd floor thing, it does work

Will do the envelope thing now. Telling them you rent the property kills any door to door thing stone dead in seconds.

Tip for mobile calls offering you a free new fancy handset etc.

Tell them it's a company phone.

They can't hang up quick enough. I try to keep them talking by saying "My sister might be interested but she's on another network. Does that matter?" or "Are you sure I cant get your upgrade for free that you've just offered me? Why do company phone users not qualify?" They HATE it

When we moved to this houe we changed our number as at the old house we got loads of junk calls including one for a Mr Maxfield who actually moved out 26 years before we did (I know this because he moved next door). We signed up for telephone preference and haven't had any problems since. We also withhold our number when dialling out on the landline which we did cos my wife is a Dentist and sometimes she used to be on call (bout once every 18 months) then we started to get calls from some patients at other times asking for treatment. They'd obviously written down our number. Most of our junk calls came from Toucan telecom who were quite insistent that they wanted to sell me a Toucan but as I advised them I have no need for a bird let alone one that requires specialist treatment and food. It's always fun to wind these people up. If those 3 or 4 people stopped buying from telesales people they would give up and find something useful to do.

Junk mail still persists though. I always look forward to the post as I get loads from various agencies telling me about their new cars or inviting me to go to Spain to drive their new car. Unfortunately most of our mail is either that crappy hand delivered stuff or for people who moved out years ago. I send it back with either "Don't live ere no more" or "Unsolicited junk mail", seems to work most of the time.

Lets not forget the worst and most annoying junk mail, spam, probably need a new topic for that.

PS Post just arrived I can get a great credit card with a £500 limit and a competitive APR of just 34.9%, a solar water heating system, a new driveway and a free Churchill Dog if I take out their car insurance. Best of all though I've had one of those free charity pens so I don't even need to make any effort to find one to write abuse on the envelope and send it back.

_________________
Mark

1961 Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier Sportswagon
1980 Dolomite Sprint project using brand new shell
2009 Mazda MX5 2.0 Sport
2018 Infiniti Q30

Phone telesales droids always start with 'our records show you are due an upgrade, is that correct?' or similar. I usually demonstrate they are pi$$ing in the wind straight off by asking 'How the hell would I know what you're records show?' or 'So that I can validate that claim could you please tell me exactly what date my contract expires?' or 'Since only myself and my supplier should know that could you tell me how you came by this information so that I can report you to the appropriate authorities?'.
There are two times I don't do this. Sometimes when you answer the phone you hear a ringing tone before the other end gets picked up, I'm never sure who is paying for those so always just hang up. If I'm in the middle of a conversation when the phone rings I put the phone on the desk and carry on the discussion they interrupted. Record so far is 1 min 21 sec before they hung up.

Tin

_________________
1978 Pageant Sprint - the rustomite, 1972 Spitfire IV - sprintfire project, 1968 Valencia GT6 II - little Blue, 1980 Vermillion 1500HL - resting. 1974 Sienna 1500TC, Mrs Weevils big brown.

When the electoral roll comes around to be signed, make sure you put a X in the box marked "Edited List" to say that you DON'T want to be on the list that everyone can see. It explains all about it on the back of the form. This will stop the majority of junk mail, as I've had next to nothing for the past 3 years

As for the nuisance phone calls, get an answer machine that you can hear the messages being left on, tell your mates etc to say who they are when it cuts in, so you can pick the phone up, and just ignore anyone else I've not spoken to anyone I don't want to for months.

Just been sent a highly amusing link related to this subject...

http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

I did wonder why you never answer when i call

Nick ,that was bloody brilliant.lmao.