2007-01-02 02:55:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The following actually happened -
Its something I had been dying to do for a while, in a vain attempt at getting a telesales person to stop cold calling. It went like this.
Me: "Hello"
Her: "Hello is that Mr X"
Me: "Yes its one of them."
Her: "Hello I am x calling from x" (a kitchen company). (Basically, she was trying to sell me a kitchenn.
Me: "Sorry, I'm a little bit busy at the moment, can I take your home phone number and I can then give you a call back later this evening when I am free."
Her: "Sorry sir I dont take calls at home."
Me: "Neither do I "- and then hung up the phone...
It brought me much satisfaction.
2007-01-02 02:57:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Went to stay with my parents this Christmas and the central heating broke on Christmas Eve. They have one of those 24 hour service contract things with British Gas where they promise to come and fix anything and everything straight away.
Yeah right.
They told my Dad it would be five working days - so not until the New Year. After a twenty minute slanging match my Dad had no choice but to accept it but promised to cancel the contract.
Two minutes later my Mum phoned up and pretended to cry. Surprise surprise they promised to send out a plumber within the hour.
So the lesson is don't buy anything from British Gas - and never be afraid to try a different approach!
2007-01-02 11:00:53 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda Kate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When i did cold calling for a conservatory company we called a competitor down the road for a quote and asked them to call us back. We answered with the company name and they hung up. We called back a few minutes later saying we still hadn't received the quote then started a fax war between the two call centres. another great one was ordering a pizza. We asked for the name of the operator because they normally mess up and he said Hold on.
'I only asked your name why should I hold on?'
Hold On
Only need to know your name and I'll hang up
Hold on
Why? I just want to know who I'm speaking to
No no no, my name is hold on (Well that's what it sounded like!)
2007-01-02 11:33:46 · answer #3 · answered by Skippy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
called one bunch and they had a automated system in a high female voice going 'operators are busy, but if u hold ur call will be answered in' and then a much deeper voice said '5 hours' and i said what the hell, thinking it was a person playing a joke, then realized it was a different mechanical voice and i started cursing and turns out i was on speaker of a person who had just picked up and then hung on the line to talk to co-workers or whatever, and a whole bunch of other operators in the room were like "WHAT??" and i was so damn embarrassed and paused for a moment but tried to save face by pretending i was a foreigner by trying to talk in broken french from classes i attended years ago( i do that for jokes at times and it just came to me), and they hung up. then they called again and my cousin picked up and the person on the other end tried talking in broken french, and my cousin, a native indian, replied in indian. it was on speaker and so damn funny that we were laughing and they were laughing.
2007-01-02 11:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once they called me and ask for the person handling our phone company account,I told them that I was the only one in the office and to call them back after 1:30.They then thanked me and then asked me for the phone # to call them back on, I said, yea right and hung up.....
2007-01-02 11:05:54 · answer #5 · answered by Maw-Maw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i got a message left on my landline phone to call this number so i did and the person picked it up and put me on hold for nearly 15 mins. what was the point? i thought it was a wind up thing ofr the radio or something
2007-01-02 11:01:31 · answer #6 · answered by bex 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had one of those sales calls and I was so fed up with it that wheb I picked up the phone I spoke to the woman in my native language. She asked me questions repeatedly and I waited for her to finish and answered back, it was quite funny for me but probably not so funny for her! : )
2007-01-02 11:02:19 · answer #7 · answered by Kitty Kat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most infuriating is when you get someone from pakistan and you can't understand what they are saying ................... it's even worse because i am Scottish and they can't understand me either.
2007-01-02 10:59:24 · answer #8 · answered by tinkerbell 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The water board wrote to me at home asking for my address as they seemed to have lost it !!!!
2007-01-02 10:59:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
erm... used skype to get two insurance companies to call each other... they get very confused... very confused indeed...
2007-01-02 10:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋