Subject:
|
Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.fun
|
Date:
|
Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:36:31 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
509 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> But I FULLY ADVOCATE being mean to telemarketers. Abuse them until they
> quit. obdisclaimer: I've worked for two telemarketing firms. What a
> horrible, evil, soul-destroying job. When you help a telemarketer quit,
> you're doing them a favor. Jeez, flipping burgers is a more satisfying job
> than telephone solicitation.
>
> I just discovered a new tactic for handling them, after BMG music called three
> times last week:
>
> "Huh? You guys just called me ten minutes ago. If you don't get your act
> together, I'll take my business elsewhere. *click*"
Wow, you're nice. As soon as I can detect a telemarketer, I say, "No thanks,"
and it's doubtful they even hear me say the end of the word "thanks" because
the phone is probably already back down[1]. I do that no matter how many times
they call, or else if I think it's them again, the machine takes it. And I
always ask who it is/who they represent before I don't give my name.
I always keep it short cuz 9 times out of 10, they're interrupting something
more than just loafing about.
If you think I'm being mean, consider what's worse: just cutting to the bottom
line (getting to "NO" quickly), or keeping them on the line with no intention
of buying (which means you waste their time too) ?
If I know the business in question to be a catalog business (such as Sears)
I'll hang on the phone and just listen cuz they've been known to make calls
when orders arrive.
And BTW, I never offer any other info or words, lest they somehow stumble onto
some other [non-]phone idea/tactic to irritate me.
I gotta admit that if/when you call me, until I know that you're a personal
friend, I am in charge of the conversation.. no one else.
-Tom McD.
when replying, spamcake by phone is still spamcake, unless of course you're in
Montana, where it's "sellin me sumpthin on the tell-ya-phone".
Note: Lugnet and rec.toys.lego are family forums
The San Francisco Bay Area Users Group
http://www.baylug.org
[1] I've discovered a way to detect them that seems to work 99% of the time,
but will not post it here, should one of them read it.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
90 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
