Cocky Lying Sales Rep Caught Out!

Biggins · 27-07-2012 06:01PM #1

I just had to run a Vodafone sales rep from my front door.
A cocky twenty year old tried to sell me his company phone/broadband service with every lie possible (besides also promising the sun, moon and stars, so to speak.
Long story short, genuinely knowing my stuff, I ripped him to shreds and ran him.
He couldn't get off the long driveway quick enough!

Anyone else ever catch a sales rep out with their lies?

ottostreet · 27-07-2012 06:02PM

That has to be one of the most ambiguous OPs ever.

Details man, details!

Samich · 27-07-2012 06:03PM

Thinly veiled "I have a long driveway" thread.

brummytom · 27-07-2012 06:04PM

Biggins wrote: »

Long story short

Give us the long story!

Mena · 27-07-2012 06:06PM

So some young guy was trying to earn a living not bumming off the state and you had to be the big man and make his job all the more difficult. Right?

Good one.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 27-07-2012 06:06PM

A Jehovahs Witness knocked at my parents door years ago and he was invited in. My father duely showed him a Betterware catalogue "the good book" he called it and tried to get him to buy some stuff.

Poor mother was mortified, father broke his hole laughing and sent him on his way......"God Boy" wasnt happy

phasers · 27-07-2012 06:06PM

ooh look at mr bigshot with his long driveway

Biggins · 27-07-2012 06:07PM

ottostreet wrote: »

That has to be one of the most ambiguous OPs ever.

Details man, details!

Sorry, he lied about the actual package I'm signed up to for broadband/phone services.
Lied about monthly usage I'm getting, the cost, the speed of mine and his line service.
He lied about their guaranteed ability to provide a minimum speed and more!

(I'm qualified also an I.T. engineer, programmer, I.T. teacher and graphic artist so I knew a little about them funny things that have CPU's in them and a little about the interwebby stuff) )

Oranage2 · 27-07-2012 06:07PM

Yep, the other day I opened the door and said 'no thanks'. He walked away and I carried on watching come dine with me.

studiorat · 27-07-2012 06:08PM

So you've a long driveway and you know more about IT than a 20 year old with a summer job...

Well done you.

Biggins · 27-07-2012 06:08PM

phasers wrote: »

ooh look at mr bigshot with his long driveway

LOL

It just means more work to keep clean!

Frank Black · 27-07-2012 06:08PM

Being rude to guy trying to scrape a living on commission doing a thankless job?

My hero.

Biggins · 27-07-2012 06:09PM

studiorat wrote: »

So you've a long driveway and you know more about IT than a 20 year old with a summer job...

Well done you.

Thank you.
I don't call to his door and bare face lie people into a contract.
I don't wish or want anyone to call to mine and try do same!

phasers · 27-07-2012 06:09PM

*starts googling list of professions*

I'll find you Biggins!

Fizman · 27-07-2012 06:10PM

Can we address the important details here please?

When you say 'long driveway'....how long is long?

30 metres, or closer to 100?

Because closer to 100 and you could call it a runway.

So how long?

Skid · 27-07-2012 06:10PM

Mena wrote: »

So some young guy was trying to earn a living not bumming off the state and you had to be the big man and make his job all the more difficult. Right?

Good one.

Yeah, we should all encourage Sales Reps to go door to door telling lies.

That's exactly what the country needs right now.:rolleyes:

27-07-2012 06:12PM

Biggins wrote: »

Sorry, he lied about the actual package I'm signed up to for broadband/phone services.
Lied about monthly usage I'm getting, the cost, the speed of mine and his line service.
He lied about their guaranteed ability to provide a minimum speed and more!

(I'm qualified also an I.T. engineer, programmer, I.T. teacher and graphic artist so I knew a little about them funny things that have CPU's in them and a little about the interwebby stuff) )

I thought you were a rogue agent or Walter Mitty or something.

gara · 27-07-2012 06:14PM

Biggins wrote: »

He couldn't get off the long driveway quick enough!

Is your wife's name Hyacinth?

studiorat · 27-07-2012 06:14PM

Biggins wrote: »

Thank you.
I don't call to his door and bare face lie people into a contract.
I don't wish or want anyone to call to mine and try do same!

Hence the long driveway I suppose.

What lies did he tell ? Tell us about your phone contract?

Biggins wrote: »

(I'm qualified also an I.T. engineer, programmer, I.T. teacher and graphic artist so I knew a little about them funny things that have CPU's in them and a little about the interwebby stuff) )

I also have many leather clad books on my shelves! :rolleyes:

Kess73 · 27-07-2012 06:14PM

Biggins wrote: »

LOL

It just means more work to keep clean!

You clean it yourself? Madness! Just get someone to do it for you.

xoxyx · 27-07-2012 06:18PM

I think I should get the parachute 'cause I'm great.

Samich · 27-07-2012 06:19PM

xoxyx wrote: »

I think I should get the parachute 'cause I'm great.

In fact..I think I should get 2 parachutes, in case one doesn't work.

SocSocPol · 27-07-2012 06:23PM

Biggins wrote: »

I just had to run a Vodafone sales rep from my front door.
A cocky twenty year old tried to sell me his company phone/broadband service with every lie possible (besides also promising the sun, moon and stars, so to speak.
Long story short, genuinely knowing my stuff, I ripped him to shreds and ran him.
He couldn't get off the long driveway quick enough!

Anyone else ever catch a sales rep out with their lies?

Yup, caught out Airtricity so often its getting funny at this stage.
But they still keep knocking!

Pottler · 27-07-2012 06:26PM

Fizman wrote: »

Can we address the important details here please?

When you say 'long driveway'....how long is long?

30 metres, or closer to 100?

Because closer to 100 and you could call it a runway.

So how long?

Mines quite long, 120m. Door to door salemen can not ever be arsed walking up it. Theres also two, one for "tradesmen" and vans, one to go to the front door. You can see it on Satellite photos as its a big Y shape of concrete. Biggys, if yours is not visible from sattelites, you're a lightweight! No wonder you always get pestered by the hoi polloi!

J K · 27-07-2012 06:28PM

black francis wrote: »

Being rude to guy trying to scrape a living on commission doing a thankless job?

My hero.

Who invited the guy to someones private residence to make a sales pitch.

Ignorant, bad manners at best.

If biggins or anyone else wants to buy a phone, or change provider they can go to the market place and see what vendors have to offer. That's to a Store or a Website. It's an aggressive and invasive attack to approach someone in their own time, in their own homes and try to force business on them.

We need to make it illegal in this country to make sales pitches to people in public places or in their homes. I will always to tell chuggers and door to door sales people to fck off, but it should not be legal for anyone to operate this way to begin with.

Where To · 27-07-2012 06:30PM

A fella once called to my house trying to sell a stuffed cat with a big penis.

I told him we don't get many cocky lion sales reps around here.

Helix · 27-07-2012 06:30PM

black francis wrote: »

Being rude to guy trying to scrape a living on commission doing a thankless job?

My hero.

living on commission gives him the right to try to rip people off does it?

Cork24 · 27-07-2012 06:30PM

Have u got longs doors to match the long drive way??

Do u have a limo?

A long drive way would look very empty without one of them !

fifth · 27-07-2012 06:30PM

I hate this kind of thing aswell, good on ya Biggins.

If someone is knocking on my door, especially late in the evening trying to sell me something / ram their political views down my neck then they better come prepared (with lots of accurate knowledge and striking retorts to my well informed questions).

Yeah of course fair play to them for working those door to door sales jobs but on the other hand that's no excuse for lies.

I'm sure there are people out there who will believe anything, you know, those people who know nothing about what the reps are selling.

Biggins · 27-07-2012 06:31PM

studiorat wrote: »

Hence the long driveway I suppose.
What lies did he tell ? Tell us about your phone contract?

I also have many leather clad books on my shelves! :rolleyes:

1. Did you bother to even read the previous posts?
2. Fair play about the books.

SocSocPol wrote: »

Yup, caught out Airtricity so often its getting funny at this stage.
But they still keep knocking!

Some people seem to think its acceptable to allow lies to be told to them - then some of those same people wonder why later they are getting bad service in general or specific instances!

A blatant lying sales rep to me is non-acceptable no matter what age they are!

ScumLord · 27-07-2012 06:34PM

Biggins wrote: »

Sorry, he lied about the actual package I'm signed up to for broadband/phone services.
Lied about monthly usage I'm getting, the cost, the speed of mine and his line service.
He lied about their guaranteed ability to provide a minimum speed and more!

(I'm qualified also an I.T. engineer, programmer, I.T. teacher and graphic artist so I knew a little about them funny things that have CPU's in them and a little about the interwebby stuff) )

I hope you reported him back to the company I hate when they scam people into buying their packages.

Vodafone pulled a con on me recently too, one of them rang me up telling me I could switch to a 24mb connection with much higher download limits. It would have been just an extra €10 so I went for it. After two weeks of no speed improvements I rang them back up only to find out there's no 24mb connection available where I am and I shouldn't have been sold the package.
Now the package deal I was on doesn't exist. I've no idea what my package is like because you have to ring them up and speed ages in a phone system to change your password for the website. The only way I know what I'm paying is when I see the money go out on my bank statement.

Cocky Lying Sales Rep Caught Out!

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