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Article #256Re: Ultimate Revenge on Telemarketers
From: George Grapman
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:38
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:38
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A number of years ago I was going to Tahoe for a long weekend. I saw an ad for a tout offering a free week of baseball picks. Just for fun I called ( I would rather use the money they charge for more bets). It turned out that free week only came if one purchased the full season of football. I told them I was not interested but they called over and over and passed my number on to other touts. The calls ranged from polite requests to to insults (You have a big decision today,asshole. Do you want to remain a fucking loser or start winning?"). Nothing I could do worked be it politeness, yelling back or hanging up. Finally I started to think- I am in sales and am supposed to overcome objections. What objection can not be overcome? The answer was total silence. Next time they called I let him read from the canned pitch ,went to speaker phone and hit mute. When he finished I heard ,"so how does it sound,George? George? Are you there? Godammit, I gave this guy my A material and he walked away from the phone" The calls diminished and they soon stopped. For a while when annoying telemarketers called I would get their name and number and next time I passed a pay phone I would call the touts and give their name and number. -- To reply via e-mail please delete 1 c from paccbell
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