Hey there blog readers I had my operation thing today and they could find any stomach ulcers. So they still don’t know what’s wrong with me.
The other day while I was home sick, the phone rang so I picked it up and there was a piano playing a song (like call waiting). I waited till the person came on. She said how are you today (now mum has been wringing all the time to check if I was all right) Hey mum, I said I still have a sore stomach. She said do you know who I am. So I said yeah (not really knowing who). She said I am ?????????? I said ohhh ok, I thought she was someone from church that knows me. Then she said you have won a discounted holiday to Noosa….That was when I realized I don’t know the person. So I did the polite thing and hung up on them.
This person was not my mum, imposter. She sounded like her but it wasn’t her.
You have to watch out for false people. They say you won this now send us your credit card details. Then they take your money.
Like on the Simpson’s grandpa says “If you give them your credit card number and if one of the numbers is lucky you win a prize”.
The other day dad was trying to call mum on his mobile and he new that the number in his phone had an extra 0 on the end(he was aware of it too!) (Wendy told him). He goes I’ll see if it works, he waited and waited for her to pick up but she didn’t. He was really confused why mum didn’t pick up. I go dad you have to get rid of the 0 for it to reach her. So I took the phone and got rid of the extra 0 for him.
how about when people ring you up to sell you stuff, and put you on hold straight away? is this a new tactic?
it’s wrong, that’s what it is.
It’s just wrong.
A machine connects you, and when you pickup, it connects to the operator to harass you… or something like that. It saves them time waiting for you to pickup.
I think that they actually employ someone to dial numbers all day, and then when they answer, put the call on hold and the person runs over to the people in the call centre and alerts one of them that they have a call, then they run back and transfer the call. A machine isn’t that intelligent or cheap to employ…
Be careful Tiffany, Ruth used to do telemarketing. Funnily enough, she now has a new job…
I really don’t appreciate telemarketers.
As soon as I hear the elevator music or if someone doesn’t respond straightaway when I say, “Hello?”, I hang up. 😀
They don’t call back? 😀
I had one lady call trying to sell me concrete rejuvenation stuff type thing and I told her repeatedly I wasn’t interested or kept saying, “No.”
She ended up asking me (quite rudely, I might add), “What, so you don’t have any concrete around your house at all?”
Oh, the things I could have said to her about her attitude, customer non-service, our treehouse…
See, Ruth saw the light.
I think Ainsley was a telemarketer for a while too.
I’m okay to start with, but if they get really pushy, and they can, and it gets to the point of being really rude, then I introduce them to the dial tone.
have you ever tried talking to them? the other day some indian guy from telstra rang up (you know the type), and mum had a nice old chat… first she asked the time in india, she always does that now, and he told her. she told him the time here, and he said no dah i knew that (well, not in those words). I then suggested that she ask about India’s chances against England in the test series, to which he replied that India will win as they have better spinners and the pitches in india spin. Could have gone on longer, but mum decided to let him get on with his job. so the message is, ask them what time it is wherever they’re calling from, and if they tell you, have a chat. otherwise hang up.
I didn’t get the treehouse thing. I sat and thought and thought and it hurt my brain.
I live in a puddle…
Ken Davis said he started “crying” when the telemarketer asked about his house.
He told the telemarketer that he didn’t have a house.
Then the guy said, “I’m sorry, Sir, I didn’t mean to bother you,” and then he hung up.
I don’t think I could do that.
I’d probably laugh.