Post Your Telephone Sales Wind Ups Here!

ZTD

Say "I'll just put you through to Tone.", then hang-up.

LookingAhead

Dumbledore55 wrote: »

Cold Caller: Can I interest you in Double Glazing/ Banking/Car Insurance etc?
DD55: Can I interest you in a taxi?
Cold Caller: No
DD55: Well when you want a taxi ring me and when I want doubleglazing etc, I'll ring you in the meantime....get off my phone!

I don't actually drive a taxi, but it does get my point across!

My brother in law just quotes his shopping list to them:

Cold Caller: Can I interest you in double glazing?
BIL: Half a dozen eggs
Cold Caller: I said, can I interest you in double glazing
BIL: 6 First Class stamps

Some persevere but others just decide he's deaf and hang up pretty quickly.

Seriously I am crying with laughter at these.....:rotfl:

saintly_2

i just copy everything they say, i had a 20min conversation with someone just copying what they said, thats fine i have an 0870 number so they can ring for as long as they want!!

4maxine

Cold Caller: Is this Mrs So and So?
Me: Yes
CC : And how are you today?
Me: Well, I had a terrible nignt. My head was pounding, I started sweating. I was really sick....
CC: .... hmmm I am sorry to hear that but....
Me: ... and then I started getting hot flushes. This menopause is really bad
CC.: .....
Me: ... but it is nothing compared to what my mother in law went through. She was getting.....

by that time the hang up. :rotfl:

judderman62

Loving this thread.

I've always liked the one about saying "hang on I'll just go and get him for you" and then putting the phone aside, still connected, and seeing how long they'll stay on.

How about turning the tables in this way - you know when you get through to a call centre in India, and the person speaks with the strongest Indian accent you've ever heard and then declares he's called Colin or John or some such - well how about you answer the phone and say "Yes hello you are through to Ranjit in the call centre in Milton Keynes, how may we help you today" That might just confuse them a tad.

I don't get cold calls, thanks TPS, but after this thread I'm almost sorry.

oscar52

still get a few calls even though TPS registered (according to one, its not up to them to delete your number, but up to the phone company - eh?)

Anyway, one I find useful for the "sales" calls as a pose to market research ... you know, the ones can i interest you in double glazing (no) how about upvc doors - and before they have cahnce to ask about the conservatory, just tell them "I have everything .... and Im taking Penicillin for it.

webitha

thanx guys i really needed cheering up tonight an this thread has really done that

only trouble is that i know i will not be able to remember any of it for next time
:rotfl:

tesuhoha

Im afraid Im really boring. Whenever I get one of those calls and they say hello is that Mrs whatsername (namely me), I reply no, Im sorry, youve got the wrong number and I hang up before they can say anything else. They never have rung back yet.

Jarlawuk

I still get the odd call even thought I'm registed with TPS - I usually just leave the phone off the hook and wander off.

*zippy*

I read a funny one on the utilities board, the posters elderly mum whenever pestered to change her gas or electricity supplier would reply that she was very happy with her present supplier as her lights were alot brighter or radiators much warmer with them than the company she was with previously