Cold Callers with attitudes

Big Wave · 27-02-2009 05:03PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Our first single can be "I Just Called To Say I Love ....if you would buy our premium super duper priority web package kthxbye"

FAIL.

speedboatchase · 27-02-2009 05:21PM

:mad:

stevenmu · 27-02-2009 05:23PM

mackeminexile wrote: »

Commission only doubles a basic if sales are made! Believe me there's nothing cushy about a sales job. Phone monkeying aside (I am not, funnily enough, a fan of most if not all cold calling 'techniques') there can quite often be a genuine product and more importantly a genuine person at the other end of the phone. It's not usually that hard to have a quick listen and see if it could actually be of benefit! Remember, you always have the option to say no and despite the pyscho-babble bullsh*t that some sales people and trainers would have you believe, its not that easy to turn that around.

There certainly can be very genuine callers with genuinely good offers, the problem is that there are so many out there that aren't and there's nothing limiting the number of calls. In my last job I could easily have gotten 20 cold calls a day, with 80% of them being pure bull****, another 18% being the same few providers call over and over to see if we'd switch and maybe 2% being decent salespeople. I had much more important things to be doing than spending half the day on cold calls ( mall company with no receptionist so we took turns answering the main line, it wasn't an integral part of my job), so by the time a decent salesperson would have rang I would already be so sick of cold calls I would either be automatically hanging up, forwarding them to our fax machine, or seeing how many times me and one of my coworkers could pass them back and forward without them hanging up.

If there was only a few decent calls a day I'm sure we would have gladly listened and been polite if we weren't interested.

Abi · 27-02-2009 05:30PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

:mad:

Was done for effect. Now, extend arm, erect index and middle finger to show your appreciation for the post

Sofiztikated · 28-02-2009 12:02AM

I did this for 6 months, selling ad space in a local rag.

I've never had a more soul sapping, hateful job!

100+ calls a day, to local businesses trying to get them to take ad space with us. The only thing was, many of the larger businesses were already on board, and had a dedicated package set with them, with account managers that they would only deal with.

Have you ever tried ringing the same businesses daily about different ad campaigns running?

I consider myself a fairly personable, decent enough sales person, face to face, and when I could be bothered, I could pull off the sales, but I HATED myself. Christ. And the regional TeleSales Manager was a fine young thing, same age as myself, liked her well enough, but Christ I hated when she'd get on a rant about call times etc.

There's only so many businesses in the county, and i could easily rip through them in a day. Then to get told I wasn't making enough calls? F**k off.

Most people were ok on the other side, built up a report with most, but some... Jesus, rude is not the word. I know, I was bothering you, but it was my job. A simple no is all that would take for me to stop.

Anyway. I hated that job. Never have I hated a job so much. 9-6 me bollicks. Give me hotels and drunks and junkies and stuff anyday!

mumhaabu · 28-02-2009 01:18AM

I regularly used to get cold calls from Smart Telecom looking to get me to change from Eircom so I would hear out their spiel before proceeding to a gargantuan wind-up wasting quite often 20 to 30mins of their time.

I would often get the question how much is your telephone bill Mr. X?

So I would respond oh on average 700 -800 a month.
Cue shock and how much I was being ripped off by Eircom, then my ignorance would proceed that I thought Eircom were the cheapest. Then several seconds of arguing that I could not have new telephone poles stood etc. presuming they were duplicating the infrastructure.

I would then proceed to ask how much it costs to call here and there with Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic as my top destination to my sweet heart GF who is out there on Charity Work (Tristan da Cunha is the worlds most remote Island and administered by St. Helena) cue minimum 5 mins of checking for a rate firstly scouring the maps to see where the hell the bloody place was, (I was usally asked where was it and what country is it in by the operator after 5 to 7mins).

I would then pretend to be fierce interested and go all about signing up to their service, I would then look for the bill to find the account no. as I am too stupid to know it, several mins of searching at my end only to discover my wife (I have a wife and GF I tell them to add to the hilarity) took it with her to work to pay the massive Eircom bill. But then I find the back itemised pages but after much searching and asking them where is the account no.

But then I tell them I wrote the lottery numbers on it for my neighbour and would they ring him there for it so I give them my grouchy old neighbours mobile and they ring him at work asking him for his neighbours (thats me) account number telling him I told them to ring, which leads to massive confusion and he basically gets angry and blasts them out of it. I stay as cool as a cucumber and promise to sign up in 2 hours when my wife returns and they ring back another rigamrole ensues and I pretend to be my own gay lover and in the finish they agree to call me back when I am at home and naturally they do to land an €700/month account only to be informed that this is the bank after repossessing the house and asking for my wherabouts, wherby they tell me (thinking I am the bank) he was on about some place called Tristan da Cunha and if the bank sees me to give Smart a Call.

I pulled this prank 3 times in a month and then Smart never again called me, I now do this with perlico and Gaelic Telecom now though and the best part I get to annoy and wind-up my neighbour in the process who is a real life Victor Meldrew hilarity ensues. Telemarketers beware when I am bored and looking to kill time. The US is a dream for receiving these calls not a day goes by but a Telemarketer calls over there,

Big Wave · 28-02-2009 02:11AM

mumhaabu wrote: »

I regularly used to get cold calls from Smart Telecom looking to get me to change from Eircom so I would hear out their spiel before proceeding to a gargantuan wind-up wasting quite often 20 to 30mins of their time.

I would often get the question how much is your telephone bill Mr. X?

So I would respond oh on average 700 -800 a month.
Cue shock and how much I was being ripped off by Eircom, then my ignorance would proceed that I thought Eircom were the cheapest. Then several seconds of arguing that I could not have new telephone poles stood etc. presuming they were duplicating the infrastructure.

I would then proceed to ask how much it costs to call here and there with Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic as my top destination to my sweet heart GF who is out there on Charity Work (Tristan da Cunha is the worlds most remote Island and administered by St. Helena) cue minimum 5 mins of checking for a rate firstly scouring the maps to see where the hell the bloody place was, (I was usally asked where was it and what country is it in by the operator after 5 to 7mins).

I would then pretend to be fierce interested and go all about signing up to their service, I would then look for the bill to find the account no. as I am too stupid to know it, several mins of searching at my end only to discover my wife (I have a wife and GF I tell them to add to the hilarity) took it with her to work to pay the massive Eircom bill. But then I find the back itemised pages but after much searching and asking them where is the account no.

But then I tell them I wrote the lottery numbers on it for my neighbour and would they ring him there for it so I give them my grouchy old neighbours mobile and they ring him at work asking him for his neighbours (thats me) account number telling him I told them to ring, which leads to massive confusion and he basically gets angry and blasts them out of it. I stay as cool as a cucumber and promise to sign up in 2 hours when my wife returns and they ring back another rigamrole ensues and I pretend to be my own gay lover and in the finish they agree to call me back when I am at home and naturally they do to land an €700/month account only to be informed that this is the bank after repossessing the house and asking for my wherabouts, wherby they tell me (thinking I am the bank) he was on about some place called Tristan da Cunha and if the bank sees me to give Smart a Call.

I pulled this prank 3 times in a month and then Smart never again called me, I now do this with perlico and Gaelic Telecom now though and the best part I get to annoy and wind-up my neighbour in the process who is a real life Victor Meldrew hilarity ensues. Telemarketers beware when I am bored and looking to kill time. The US is a dream for receiving these calls not a day goes by but a Telemarketer calls over there,

Lies.

MagicMarker · 28-02-2009 11:13AM

mumhaabu wrote: »

I regularly used to get cold calls from Smart Telecom looking to get me to change from Eircom so I would hear out their spiel before proceeding to a gargantuan wind-up wasting quite often 20 to 30mins of their time.

I would often get the question how much is your telephone bill Mr. X?

So I would respond oh on average 700 -800 a month.
Cue shock and how much I was being ripped off by Eircom, then my ignorance would proceed that I thought Eircom were the cheapest. Then several seconds of arguing that I could not have new telephone poles stood etc. presuming they were duplicating the infrastructure.

I would then proceed to ask how much it costs to call here and there with Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic as my top destination to my sweet heart GF who is out there on Charity Work (Tristan da Cunha is the worlds most remote Island and administered by St. Helena) cue minimum 5 mins of checking for a rate firstly scouring the maps to see where the hell the bloody place was, (I was usally asked where was it and what country is it in by the operator after 5 to 7mins).

I would then pretend to be fierce interested and go all about signing up to their service, I would then look for the bill to find the account no. as I am too stupid to know it, several mins of searching at my end only to discover my wife (I have a wife and GF I tell them to add to the hilarity) took it with her to work to pay the massive Eircom bill. But then I find the back itemised pages but after much searching and asking them where is the account no.

But then I tell them I wrote the lottery numbers on it for my neighbour and would they ring him there for it so I give them my grouchy old neighbours mobile and they ring him at work asking him for his neighbours (thats me) account number telling him I told them to ring, which leads to massive confusion and he basically gets angry and blasts them out of it. I stay as cool as a cucumber and promise to sign up in 2 hours when my wife returns and they ring back another rigamrole ensues and I pretend to be my own gay lover and in the finish they agree to call me back when I am at home and naturally they do to land an €700/month account only to be informed that this is the bank after repossessing the house and asking for my wherabouts, wherby they tell me (thinking I am the bank) he was on about some place called Tristan da Cunha and if the bank sees me to give Smart a Call.

I pulled this prank 3 times in a month and then Smart never again called me, I now do this with perlico and Gaelic Telecom now though and the best part I get to annoy and wind-up my neighbour in the process who is a real life Victor Meldrew hilarity ensues. Telemarketers beware when I am bored and looking to kill time. The US is a dream for receiving these calls not a day goes by but a Telemarketer calls over there,

Wow, you should actually get yourself a life. We have cookies.

consultech · 28-02-2009 12:23PM

mumhaabu wrote: »

I regularly used to get cold calls from Smart Telecom looking to get me to change from Eircom so I would hear out their spiel before proceeding to a gargantuan wind-up wasting quite often 20 to 30mins of their time.

I would often get the question how much is your telephone bill Mr. X?

So I would respond oh on average 700 -800 a month.
Cue shock and how much I was being ripped off by Eircom, then my ignorance would proceed that I thought Eircom were the cheapest. Then several seconds of arguing that I could not have new telephone poles stood etc. presuming they were duplicating the infrastructure.

I would then proceed to ask how much it costs to call here and there with Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic as my top destination to my sweet heart GF who is out there on Charity Work (Tristan da Cunha is the worlds most remote Island and administered by St. Helena) cue minimum 5 mins of checking for a rate firstly scouring the maps to see where the hell the bloody place was, (I was usally asked where was it and what country is it in by the operator after 5 to 7mins).

I would then pretend to be fierce interested and go all about signing up to their service, I would then look for the bill to find the account no. as I am too stupid to know it, several mins of searching at my end only to discover my wife (I have a wife and GF I tell them to add to the hilarity) took it with her to work to pay the massive Eircom bill. But then I find the back itemised pages but after much searching and asking them where is the account no.

But then I tell them I wrote the lottery numbers on it for my neighbour and would they ring him there for it so I give them my grouchy old neighbours mobile and they ring him at work asking him for his neighbours (thats me) account number telling him I told them to ring, which leads to massive confusion and he basically gets angry and blasts them out of it. I stay as cool as a cucumber and promise to sign up in 2 hours when my wife returns and they ring back another rigamrole ensues and I pretend to be my own gay lover and in the finish they agree to call me back when I am at home and naturally they do to land an €700/month account only to be informed that this is the bank after repossessing the house and asking for my wherabouts, wherby they tell me (thinking I am the bank) he was on about some place called Tristan da Cunha and if the bank sees me to give Smart a Call.

I pulled this prank 3 times in a month and then Smart never again called me, I now do this with perlico and Gaelic Telecom now though and the best part I get to annoy and wind-up my neighbour in the process who is a real life Victor Meldrew hilarity ensues. Telemarketers beware when I am bored and looking to kill time. The US is a dream for receiving these calls not a day goes by but a Telemarketer calls over there,

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