AutoPacific survey?

[uititan]

I received a survey titled "Future Vehicle Study" from AutoPacific, Inc. It looks like a typical survey and I think they got my contact info from Nissan. Has anybody received one of these before? Is it legit?

My concern is with a statement that says "When you return your completed survey by June 10, 2005, your name will be entered in a giveaway drawing. The grand prize is $500 a month for a year to help make your car payments."

I don't enter in drawings to avoid spam. Too much junk mail these days.

[VShortt]

I don't know whether your survey is legit or not, but I will tell you that here are some good ideas for dealing with junk mail. I got this e-mail from a friend awhile back and have been using the info ever since. I haven't seen a decline in junk mail yet, but I imagine that eventually I will. Long read but its worth it.








Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers

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. 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 37 cents 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! It still costs them 37 cents.

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 int! o 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.