Post Your Telephone Sales Wind Ups Here!

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Sorry to be boring but you may or may not know its actually illegal for them to use fake names.

MKDave

judderman62 wrote: »

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.

Milton Keynes is more than just Call Centres, Roundabouts and Concrete Cows. Tut tut Judderman!!

snoozer

A bit off topic but oH struggled through a long conversation with someone from 3 trying to explain that his phone wasn't working so he couldn't do as they ask and text them.

Didn't get anywhere so emailed them and was sent a reply saying they couldn't reply unless his email address was registered with them. He went on the website to register and was told he already was and they would text his forgotten password to him on the phone that doesn't work!!!

His next email was blistering, not had a reply yet

QueenB.

4maxine wrote: »

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:

:rotfl:

This just cracked me up, i will have to try and remember it for next time. Even though we are registared we still get some cold callers and it really annoys me. One trying to sell me sky got really irratated with me because i was being so unexplanitory with my answers and said do you actually have a TV. I was really annoyed and said a few things that couldn't be repeated.:D

immoral_angeluk

We get calls for the person who used to live at this address (We're housing association tenants.). But the conversations normally go like this..

me: Hello?
CC: Hello is that Mr Kenderdine?
Me: As you can probably tell from my voice, no, I am not Mr kenderdine.
cc: Is he available?
Me: Nope he's dead.
cc: Sorry?
Me: He's dead.
cc: Is Mrs Kenderdine there?
Me: Nope she's dead too.
cc: And you are?
Me: That would be telling.
cc: Can I speak to the home owner?
Me. No.
cc: sorry?
Me. no.
cc: right ok....
me: we're tenants.
cc: right ok bye.

James&Shell

For the last three weeks we had a indian call centre rin up and asking for the previous person who had our number.

The first two were politly told she has moved etc.

I told on i posted her on a envelope ( her name was mrs A Stamp)

The second one i told them i worked for vodafone (i dont) but it stopped him tryng to sell m his phone.

The last one i had i pretended to be insane (not hard) an afer repeating and keep askin who they were they got off the line.

elantan

i used to have this problem alot i phoned telewest and spoke to them about it one guy said to me so why are you being polite to these people? i said well i dont want to be rude etc he reminded me that that's exactly what they are doing...the penny dropped...so now i ask them why do you want to know if i own my home how is it any of your business ...do you think i am stupid and incapable of searching out a mobile phone deal etc etc etc usually followed by a f**k off and dont be so bl00dy cheeky ...usually they hang up before i get to that stage however

QueenB.

We get phone calls for someone else as well, the strange thing is that that person never lived at our address and when they tell us the address they have for the person its not even our address.

In fact i have had companies phone me asking for this other person and when i say that they don't live here the seller trys to sell me whatever itis they are selling. I always turn around and say that if they can't get my name right and have confusion over where someone else lives then how can they expect me to ever consider a company who obviously is badly organised and run.

artic_fox_2

i just say council house or payg mobile with less than £5 per month usually shuts them up

Jo_F

I had one a couple of weeks ago from 'Mike in London' (Mike in London with a very heavy non-London accent), trying to give me a mobile phone.

He actually caught me at a bad moment, so I really wasn't in the mood for it, I aksed where he had got my number from and he swore black is white that I had given in to his company, (a company that I have never even heard of).

Anyway I finally told him to delete my details from his call sheet and leave me alone, he then said 'do you not want a free mobile phone then?' to which I replied no....

That confused him