Phone Salesmen

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:07 am

Pinky;594858 wrote: They really get up my bloody nose!!!

I get at least two a day and they always ring when I'm trying to get stuff out of the oven or bleach the sink or something. I wouldn't mind if it was something good, but they spend ages trying to sell you life insurance or whatever and won't let you get a word in edgeways...trust me, they have to be damn good for me not to be able to interrupt!

I've discovered the magic phrase that gets rid of them almost instantly...sorry, I'm not a homeowner. They disappear in seconds!:D

Bankruptcy is another fun word!!:D :p

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:07 am

Pinky;594858 wrote: They really get up my bloody nose!!!

I get at least two a day and they always ring when I'm trying to get stuff out of the oven or bleach the sink or something. I wouldn't mind if it was something good, but they spend ages trying to sell you life insurance or whatever and won't let you get a word in edgeways...trust me, they have to be damn good for me not to be able to interrupt!

I've discovered the magic phrase that gets rid of them almost instantly...sorry, I'm not a homeowner. They disappear in seconds!:D

Does the UK have en equivalent to the "Do Not Call List" we have here in the US?

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:25 am

I've had TPS for two years!.......It saved my sanity.....I think!

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:29 am

What would be convenient would be for them to develop phones that detect spam numbers quite in the same relation to the email addresses that your computer detects and coincidentally enough have the phone just not even ring...

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:38 am

K.Snyder;594873 wrote: What would be convenient would be for them to develop phones that detect spam numbers quite in the same relation to the email addresses that your computer detects and coincidentally enough have the phone just not even ring...

have heard rumor there are such devices out there.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:40 am

minks;594876 wrote: have heard rumor there are such devices out there.

Well then there you go Pinky...

Although it is rather inconvenient to have to pay for a phone when you have one that works fine already, but I'm willing to bet that if they call twice a day it would be well worth it...:wah:

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:00 am

A Rug Cleaning Company called at 9:00 p.m.........

I have the yellow Pages.......

Do they really think by calling that late at night I'd buy something from them????

I do enjoy toying with some and Taking Control of the Conversation.

Patsy

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:04 am

you could always make a recording of a vicous barking snarling dog and when they call play it for a spell and I bet they hang up.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:05 am

I got smart with a saleman one time...told him my husband at the time had just died....i will be damned if i didnt start getting calls from coffin salesmen after that.....

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:32 am

Try my stock answer ,if you got the bottle " Thanks mate , I am just in the middle of a good F**k and I was at the point of no return and you have ruined it ,now p**s off

koan · Post by **koan** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:03 pm

I used to get called the most by the newspapers wanting to deliver the paper.

I decided to tell them I don't need the news because I'm psychic. I already know what's going to happen. :wah:

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:32 pm

Ok, I used to be a telemarketer in the 80s. I worked for boiler rooms that sold water purifiers and vitamins by the year's supply. My job was to cold call and get you to buy a year's worth of probably crappy (heck even we didn't take them and we got them for free) vitamins for $595.00 and you could maybe win a Cadillac or some crappier stuff. I was pretty good at it too until I got this one guy from somewhere in Oklahoma or someplace. I was doing my spiel about all the junk that was in these magic vitamins and when I got to iron, he stopped me and said

"Honey, ah can get all the iron ah need chewin' the rust off mah truck!"

All I could picture was this guy sucking the rust off his trailer hitch. I laughed so hard I couldn't give him any of the standard rebuttals (we had a big fat book of what to say for when leads would fight us) and I told him he had just sold me. Soon after that I got a real job.

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:36 am

RedGlitter;595204 wrote: Ok, I used to be a telemarketer in the 80s. I worked for boiler rooms that sold water purifiers and vitamins by the year's supply. My job was to cold call and get you to buy a year's worth of probably crappy (heck even we didn't take them and we got them for free) vitamins for $595.00 and you could maybe win a Cadillac or some crappier stuff. I was pretty good at it too until I got this one guy from somewhere in Oklahoma or someplace. I was doing my spiel about all the junk that was in these magic vitamins and when I got to iron, he stopped me and said

"Honey, ah can get all the iron ah need chewin' the rust off mah truck!"

All I could picture was this guy sucking the rust off his trailer hitch. I laughed so hard I couldn't give him any of the standard rebuttals (we had a big fat book of what to say for when leads would fight us) and I told him he had just sold me. Soon after that I got a real job.

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl That's hillarious!! Sure that wasn't my ex-husband, sounds just like him!!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:44 pm

Uncle Fester;594906 wrote: Try my stock answer ,if you got the bottle " Thanks mate , I am just in the middle of a good F**k and I was at the point of no return and you have ruined it ,now p**s off

:wah: Good one, Fester,,,but that's not My style. I am on the "No Call Registry" here in the States.