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SALES PEOPLE ON THE PHONE…DO WHAT I DO
Sales person called me today at 8.45pm to tell me about some offer on health insurance, so after 10 seconds of him rabbiting on as if he is reading of a card, I pass the phone to my daughter who is only two years of age, and I giggled to myself as she walked round the living room taking in every word he said. I took the phone of her after ten minutes and he had hung up, the manners of some people.
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That is brilliant! What a fantastic way to get rid of a telesales person!
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The fastest way to get rid of these people is just say “Sorry but I am a subscriber to the telephone preference service, can I have your number?”
Try it, the will not call again.
Peter -
I recently had an “Internet Directory” phone me up wanting to check my contact details.
I said I was not aware that I was in their directory.
But it’s a free entry – I was told.
I don’t care (says I) I would like it removed please
I’m sorry but we can only remove it if we get a written instruction (came the reply)
Oh for goodness sake – why don’t you just f*ck off (says I)
That got rid of him 😕
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It’s a bloody nightmare. Double glazing, internet search engine placement, phony advertising campaigns, Jehovah’s bloody witnesses, not to mention the constant barrage of gas/electricity suppliers banging on the door every time you sit down! Bastards.
I really wish I had a gun.
I have become more and more rude, aggressive and downright sweary with these people over the last few months. Woe betide the next double poxy glazing salesman who darkens my doorstep!
Wow, I feel better already.
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I sold double glazing for a while….salesmen are real easy to pacify…all you have to do is say “yes”
Iain
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Get Caller ID.
If it comes up “unknown” or “out of area”…don’t answer.
Love….Jill -
The sneaky ones are the ones that have got your name!
THe really annoying ones are those that read from a script that’s as long as a Harry Potter Novel and don’t even pause for breath.
The crooked ones are them that tell you we doing a charity booklet and confirming your order – what order!
The crazy ones are from call centers in India – sorry can’t understand a blo*dy word10 calls a day – 3 minutes a call on average before you can get rid of them. 5 minutes per call trying to get yourself re-organized and concentrating on what you were supposed to be doing – that’s 80 minutes a day. That’s over 6.5 hours a week. Nearly 30 hours a month. Apply whatever hourly rate you charge for your time…………
They are stealing our time and money – Right signs has phrased it correctly!
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My 13 year old son admitted the following to me recently.
On answering a call at home (Alison and I were out at the time) the caller asked to speak to his mum or dad. Inspired by the Nambarrie Tea advert, he asked the caller to “Please hold” and proceeded to play “Is this the way to Amarillo” down the phone. Every now and again he turned off the music and told the caller his call was important to him, and thank you for holding (before turning the music up again). The enraged caller was heard screaming down line – “I’ll tell your mum and dad” to which he taunted back – “You can’t – they’re not in, that’s why you’re talking to me”.
I’m not one to encourage bad manners in youngsters – but when he told me about this I thought it was hilarious.
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I think thats the answer, get teenagers to talk to them, they like nothing better than to irritate and annoy, does your 13 year son want to meet my 13 year daughter? they could annoy salesmen together :lol1:
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We get at least a call a day from telephone companies who want us to switch to them, but you can’t understand a word they say because of call quality.
Go figure.
The operator/salesman tends to be called Mike or Bruce. From Delhi or Bangladesh I reckon but they insist they are from Melbourne. However when you press them for the address of their office , because you’re going to Melbourne next week and would love to call in and chat for hours about call charges they misteriously forget where they are. Strange. Ask for their superiors name and details and they can’t remember them. 😳
Poor sods they must earn $20 a day. You can’t blame them for trying. But by golly next one that gets me will get a serve for sure.
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Its a huge pain and we find that you can always guarantee they will call at your busiest times 😕 we get a fair few calls but more annoying we keep getting fluffing spam faxes … lots of them …… we are going to get our number registered and hopefully stop the unwanted cold calls and faxes … to be honest if Im interested in something I will go and find out about it …. I dont want peeps calling me for this that and everything with the once in a lifetime offer of saving my company money every year 🙄
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Scozzie, Ive had Bruce from Delhi and strangely he said he was from UK 😮
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Thats class right signs…….. 😀 😀
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At least we don’t get ‘fluffing spam faxes’. ! 😀 😮 😀 😮 😀
I’m a bit scared to ask what they are. I was kept in a cupboard till I was 30. 😀
Jem that can’t be my Bruce. Unless of course it was Mike pretending to be Bruce. Or is it a case of ‘it’s Tuesday so we must ring Australia, tomorrow we ring the UK’.
Together we may break the ring. (:) (hot)
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Brilliant reading. 😀
I’m afraid that I am nowhere near so creative or imaginative. I just tell them to f off and haunt somebody else.
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yep i agree setting up some tacky music i can play to these lovly people and brushing up my spoken lines now
chris
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I quite often get them ringing my mobile..I just play along with them, getting them to hold while i find the person..hopefully it will cost them a fortune in phone charges and they will delete me off their system.
Fax spam, my old company would shut up at 5.00pm and by 8am the whole roll of fax paper would be gone, all spam.
I had a few but changed my fax to an e-mail fax service that cost the sender 5p per sheet, so that stopped that..Simon
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I get a lot of indians call me ask me about my phone choice. I bung on my best aussie slang and say ‘struthmate, I am busier that a 1 armed paper hanger with jock itch, flat out like a lizard drinkiing, my offsider has clampered, the wifes shot thru, the kids are goin off, running around like a bondi tram, and I have got work to do. Goodbye.
Just about everytime, the reply I get is ‘ the wife shot who?’
Cracks me up every time.
Then I hang up.
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quote dsi:Just about everytime, the reply I get is ‘ the wife shot who?’Cracks me up every time.
Then I hang up.
:rofl:
I just pass mine onto my father in law, he loves to let off steam at them.
Steve
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I have caller ID like Jill. On the rare occasion I get stuck on the phone with a telemarketer I just hang up. They usually get the point.
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I must get at least 1 call every day from these people, i used to be polite and wait untill they had drawn breath the first time before telling them i was not interested, but then they come back at you in typical sales talk and you end up trying to un-engage. Now i hang up straight away, much kinder to all involved they can get on with hassling someone else and i can get on with working.
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