Sales people
Aug. 29th, 2006 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrisvenusI made a massive achievement today and I'm not quite sure how. I managed to get the sales person phoning me to hang up on me.
After the usual spiel of "I see your vodafone contract is due to expire soon" I soon knew that this woman had absolutely no idea of my current state of affairs. You see, for the last six years or so I've been an orange customer and so I get to laugh a lot when they tell me that my vodafone contract is going to expire. The slight irony is that I might be changing back to vodafone at some point. Anyway, having explained this to the girl there is a delayed pause and so I say "Thanks for calling" at which point she replies slightly huffily "We haven't finished the conversation yet". So I reply politely (I'm always willing to give them courtesy) "Sorry, I--" and then am cut off as she hangs up on me.
I have a suspicion that there might have been some kind of mute related incident whereby the pause in the conversation was her saying something to me but really that ain't my fault.
Though, if you are somebody that doesn't like sales calls and doesn't mid being rude try just saying "Well, thanks for calling" whenever you feel appropriate and just see how long til you can get them to hang up.
The amusing thing is that this call for a change didn't withhold her number and I was sorely tempted to phone them back up and ask to speak to her again because we hadn't finished the conversation. :)
After the usual spiel of "I see your vodafone contract is due to expire soon" I soon knew that this woman had absolutely no idea of my current state of affairs. You see, for the last six years or so I've been an orange customer and so I get to laugh a lot when they tell me that my vodafone contract is going to expire. The slight irony is that I might be changing back to vodafone at some point. Anyway, having explained this to the girl there is a delayed pause and so I say "Thanks for calling" at which point she replies slightly huffily "We haven't finished the conversation yet". So I reply politely (I'm always willing to give them courtesy) "Sorry, I--" and then am cut off as she hangs up on me.
I have a suspicion that there might have been some kind of mute related incident whereby the pause in the conversation was her saying something to me but really that ain't my fault.
Though, if you are somebody that doesn't like sales calls and doesn't mid being rude try just saying "Well, thanks for calling" whenever you feel appropriate and just see how long til you can get them to hang up.
The amusing thing is that this call for a change didn't withhold her number and I was sorely tempted to phone them back up and ask to speak to her again because we hadn't finished the conversation. :)