Telephone Sales Calls Driving Me Insane!
Jan 24th 2007, 9:00 pm
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Re: Telephone Sales Calls Driving Me Insane!
Seriously though, I need a landline for the alarm system. I don't think it can be hooked up to anything else?
Jan 25th 2007, 1:29 am
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Re: Telephone Sales Calls Driving Me Insane!
Ah... I have free unlimited local calls both going out and coming in on my phone...
Jan 25th 2007, 1:51 am
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I was pretty curt with wrong numbers until I figured out I was being billed by the minute anyway, so I have 60secs to tell them what I think of their fat careless fingers
Jan 25th 2007, 11:23 am
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Re: Telephone Sales Calls Driving Me Insane!
Some while back I had a call offering me a free trial subsrcription to La Presse (franco newspaper). I politely declined, on the grounds that I coudn't read French and francophone newspapers were thus not much use to me. The salesthing seemed quite happy with the excuse.
I do wonder if, after he'd hung up, he thought: "hang on a sec...
I do wonder if, after he'd hung up, he thought: "hang on a sec...
Jan 25th 2007, 11:29 am
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Re: Telephone Sales Calls Driving Me Insane!
Last night Bell phoned (I suppose 50% of the calls on the wall phone are from the phone company). "I'm bimbo from Bell" she started. "So" I asked "what are you wearing?". That unfortunately was enough, she hung up.
Jan 25th 2007, 12:01 pm
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I dont like to be nasty to them though, its really just a job to them, so there is no reason to get personal.
The funny thing is, with two thirds of the junk calls in the UK apparently coming from India these days, even if I do try talking to them, most of the time I can't understand them and they can't understand me.
Jan 25th 2007, 1:17 pm
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I had an unsolicited email yesterday that left me a little bemused.
It was from a headhunter in the UK. That in itself is nothing spooky. My bio and contact details are on our company's website, so anyone researching our industry will have little difficulty finding me. What did make me smile is that the position in question has recently been vacated by a guy who replaced me when I left another job 17 years ago.
It was from a headhunter in the UK. That in itself is nothing spooky. My bio and contact details are on our company's website, so anyone researching our industry will have little difficulty finding me. What did make me smile is that the position in question has recently been vacated by a guy who replaced me when I left another job 17 years ago.
Jan 25th 2007, 1:33 pm
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Jan 25th 2007, 6:20 pm
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Re: Telephone Sales Calls Driving Me Insane!
I believe that if a telemarketer calls me he or she is a fair target for any sort of wind up. I keep going until they hang up on me. The best this week was the Direct Energy guy selling gas contracts, somewhere in his script he mentioned the price of gas expressed in kilo-phyllo-bilo-somethings.
"Metric gas?" I shouted at him "you're putting metric gas in my house?"
He stammered that it wasn't his fault and I shouted that we don't have metric appliances and we do have children and his endangering them was an affront to me and that he should cut the gas off immediately. He said he couldn't cut the gas off because he wasn't the supplier and I demanded to know why he was calling me if he didn't supply the gas anyway and I was able to waste nearly an hour of his time in which he made no sales and didn't bother anyone else.
I usually tell the Toronto Sun people that I'm a pinko faggot and invite them for bum sex which gets rid of them quite quickly, especially if I use the expression "take it up the Gary" and then have to explain it.
I don't mind the calls because I'm usually driving and it passes the time in the traffic. What annoys me is the people who turn up at the door selling energy contracts, they never have enough English to understand "it's a scam, get the **** off my porch" so they plainly can't sell anything and I don't know why they come.
"Metric gas?" I shouted at him "you're putting metric gas in my house?"
He stammered that it wasn't his fault and I shouted that we don't have metric appliances and we do have children and his endangering them was an affront to me and that he should cut the gas off immediately. He said he couldn't cut the gas off because he wasn't the supplier and I demanded to know why he was calling me if he didn't supply the gas anyway and I was able to waste nearly an hour of his time in which he made no sales and didn't bother anyone else.
I usually tell the Toronto Sun people that I'm a pinko faggot and invite them for bum sex which gets rid of them quite quickly, especially if I use the expression "take it up the Gary" and then have to explain it.
I don't mind the calls because I'm usually driving and it passes the time in the traffic. What annoys me is the people who turn up at the door selling energy contracts, they never have enough English to understand "it's a scam, get the **** off my porch" so they plainly can't sell anything and I don't know why they come.
Swears it works for him. But then again he is originally from Manchester UK!
As for myself, I just hang up. Unsolicited 'cold calling' I can live without.
Jan 25th 2007, 6:26 pm
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I have heard it said, but never put it to the test, that Jehovah's Witnesses will push of immediately if you tell them you are Jewish.
Jan 25th 2007, 7:11 pm
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We used to get them all the time when we ran a business in England so I'd either put the phone on the shelf and leave it for as long as it took them to hang up - I think the record was 15 minutes - or tell them they needed to speak to the boss but "he's in the office with his secretary and said not to be disturbed". 
We've been plagued with some of the banks here phoning trying to get us to take out their credit cards; I just tell them I don't need their credit card, I won the lottery last night. If only!
We've been plagued with some of the banks here phoning trying to get us to take out their credit cards; I just tell them I don't need their credit card, I won the lottery last night. If only!
Jan 25th 2007, 7:18 pm
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I'll try your way next time.