Post Your Telephone Sales Wind Ups Here!

Busybody

In my previous house the phone number was a digit different from the Pizza Shop...You can imagine can't you? all times of the day and night people phoning up for a pizza.:mad:

One night I just took the order and said be with you in 20 mins.:rotfl:

My son was so worried that someone would come and beat me up because their pizza had'nt arrived!!:T

inmypocketnottheirs

This is a little trick I learned a while back:

Caller: Hello is that Mr Inmypocket?
Me: Who is calling:
Caller: It's blah blah, from blahdy blah. Just calling you to discuss.....
Me: Oh I am terribly sorry, I have a court order preventing me from talking to you on the telephone.
Caller: a court order, why is that?
Me: COS I KEEP TELLING YOU TO F**K OFF

They don't generally call again.

wyebird

My dad likes sales calls
Call from bank trying to sell new financial product insurance etc.

caller: Do you make the financial decisions in your household?
Dad: I don't make any decisions, I'm just a sex object

catewithers

wyebird wrote: »

My dad likes sales calls
Call from bank trying to sell new financial product insurance etc.

caller: Do you make the financial decisions in your household?
Dad: I don't make any decisions, I'm just a sex object

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That has to be one of the funniest things I've ever heard!!!!!!

Devonprincess

I waste so much time on these phone calls as it's just in my nature to be polite . Someone I work with though did tell me what her other half does and I think I'm going to have to persuade mine to do the same!

Telesales: Hello, can I talk to Mrs X please?
MR X: Yes speaking.
Telesales: No, sorry I said Mrs X please.
MR X: Yes speaking.
Telesales: Sorry, you don't sound like a Mrs?
MR X: How very dare you!!!!

They seem to hang up then! :j

wyebird

Caller: I am calling to see if you are happy with your new credit card?
Answer: That's nice, I thought for a minute you were calling to sell me payment protection insurance.
Caller: err

art_student

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This thread is brilliant!!!!!

I am very boring and just say no thanks as I don't want to upset people too much! Maybe I should develop my wicked side - it sounds fun!!!

petetidball

I just let my three year old daughter answer the phone. They very rarely hang on for too long. All it takes is a couple of choruses of Twinkle Twinkle and her telling them she did poo poo on the potty and they disappear!

Our old phone number was one digit different from the hospitals ICU so we occasionally got calls asking how so and so was. A sick, twisted side of me always wanted to make it up, but I told them it was a wrong number and gave them the right one.

At my mum and dads, their number was x11 850, so we occasionally got calls for 118 500. My favourite was the time I picked up the phone;
Me: Hello
Caller: Swimming Baths
Me: Eh?
C: Swimming Baths
Me: What?
C: I want the number for the swimming baths
Me: Call directory enquiries then, you stupid rude b@:~h

I then put the phone down. It amused me though!

petetidball

The wife managed to sell Call18866 to someone from BT a year or so ago! Quite impressive. I also tend to look up deals while I'm talking to people and tell them where I can get whatever they're selling cheaper, or direct them here. It is quite fun leading on cold callers and then coming up with some excuse at the end.

wishiwasarichgirl

used to get the indian call centres ringing all the time when I lived in shared rented accommodation.

them: can I speak with Mr X (landlord)
me: sorry, he doesn't live here
them: can I speak to the person responsible for paying the telephone bill
me: we don't get a bill, its a pay-phone
them: can I speak to the person responsible for paying the telephone bill
me: we don't get a bill, its a pay-phone, we put money in the phone, we make a call, and to be honest we don't do that much either cos we all have mobiles with free calls
them: ..........

seemed to confuse them.