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Al the DLOE
Director of Unpleasent Facts Dept.
Age: 43
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006 |
 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject: |
| Ming wrote: | So far, I've been pretty successful getting them off the phone with, "You know what? I hate to interrupt you, but I'm really not interested. Thanks!"
Usually I get a "Thank you for your time", and the call is over. |
yeah...lucky you are |
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Get off a shot FAST, this upsets him long enough to let you make your
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Jaena
Senior Otaku
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Joined: 09 Jan 2007 |
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject: |
I've had to do sales calls, and I did not enjoy it one bit. I had to do it though in order to keep my job. I HATED HATED HATED it. And I got people who were nasty to me. That only makes the person calling want to give up trying to be nice.
This was at m job where I was also taking incoming calls from people who were rude to me for somethign THEY did. Stupid things like THEM forgetting they wouldn't be available for an install, or THEM waiting until the last moment before they HAD to have phoen service, knowing that when we talked to them last we told them we HAD to have a call a couple days in advance.
Yeah, there are some crappy telemarketers, and I found 'slinger's method amusing, btu if I had been on teh other end of that line I probably would have bawled my eyes out afterwards because I didn't want o make the call in teh first place. |
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SirGunslinger
Rebel without a clue
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Joined: 21 Jun 2007 |
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject: |
It wasn't the fact that she was a telephone solicitor that was the problem... the issue was in the fact that she was trying to convince me that she was not.
Kind of like that douche door to door salesman trying to convince me that he is a business partner or a preferred vendor... |
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Akuko
Chosen of Bast
Age: 45
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Joined: 03 Mar 2006 |
| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
LOL, thank god I work at a incoming call center where people call us because they want to talk to us and "expect" a sales pitch at the end of the call. |
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FawkesFyre
Saving the World, one Kitty at a Time
Age: 46
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Joined: 28 Sep 2006 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject: |
I tend to go with the Ming method but I did end up talking with this one guy,selling newspapers, for about 45 minutes...just talking...it was fun but also weird at the same time too.
He was one of those who calls out from his house and wanted to talk, I guess. |
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SirGunslinger
Rebel without a clue
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Joined: 21 Jun 2007 |
| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:14 am Post subject: |
Troubleshooting Conference Call @ 2:30 AM a few days ago:
<Global Engineer>: Joseph we have Mona from X company on the line to try and resolve this issue (Normally when calling someone in late we walk them through the problem for about 5 - 10 min to wake up)
<Me>: *groan* errr is she cute
<Global Engineer>: She is the engineer for X company
<Me>: errr so that is a no?
<Global Engineer>: We are on to fix a problem
<Me>: What problem?
<Global Engineer>: Connection issue from this morning.
<Me>: Oooooh I see... so it just happened?
<Mona>: The issue that happened 12 hours ago
<Me>: So in the afternoon?
<Mona>: Errrr maybe
<Me>: What timezone are you in?
<Mona>: Egyptian Time
<Me>: So 8 hours forward
<Mona>: Yes
<Me>: Well that explains alot... it is 2:40 am here. I'm still trying to wake up. |
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