rant How rude are the Yanks ??

[SUPRALOOPY]

I just ask if it's free? and keep asking until they hang up or I get bored..

[Havard]

Pretty much any point of the day then.

 

Thank you Mr M.....

[RedM]

Thank you Mr M.....

 

Always a pleasure.

[Nick]

The best thing to do with cold callers is tell them you're in the middle of something and ask them to hold, then go make a cuppa.

[Havard]

I usually start with "I couldn't do your job mate" and then go on to tell them how soul destroying I would find it.....

 

Generally after the lecture, they forget what they rang you about.....

 

H.

[ozz]

I just say we're TPS registered, an apology will follow and they will hang up. Unless they sound fit, then I ask for pictures with hovis.

[stinboy]

Can't believe this?! - americans are so friendly!

 

My favourite sod off line to cold callers is the 'do you want to buy my scalextric'.

 

Actually, thinking on.......

[stevie_b]

I just say we're TPS registered, an apology will follow and they will hang up. Unless they sound fit, then I ask for pictures with hovis.

 

But most of the cold calls seem to come from strange, possibly overseas numbers, perhaps from call centres on the Indian subcontinent. I don't think they give a stuff about the TPS.

 

So come on Tom, what were you trying to sell them?

[Robzki]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html

 

Theres loads of these flowcharts around to print and put by the phone. I've tried it once when bored. It ended with the nice chap on the other end of the phone asking if I was some kind of retard, Very rude. He then hung up, rang me back 2 minutes later just to hang up again. The ultimate success is when one hangup just isn't enough

[Tom S]

thanks for the strange replies.

 

It seems "Cold calling" is not liked.

 

Where as Manners - Something I was always told everyone has, are gone. My parents taught me to be polite at all times. Something most of you lot aren't.

 

So what about when you guys want car insurance etc etc and cold call for a price and don't buy.... same source but reversed.

[fizzle]

hahaha just remembered the two old ladies at the start of the film "friday"....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_G3WvBohY

 

WARNING MILD SWEARING!!!

[Thorin]

I have to deal with them everyday as we're an American company. I don't find them outright rude so much, more condescending. But they don't realise they are being, which is the most annoying.

 

They treat us like their poor uneducated UK cousins. It's most satisfying when they f*ck something up again and we have to prove them wrong, which is a weekly occurrence.

 

They never learn.

[Robzki]

I don't mind cold calling, But when I say 'no I'm not interested' then thats all that needs saying. It is 'bad manners' as you put it to try and sell in a forceful way when the other party is in no way interested in the product you are selling. I'm not saying you are like this but to say that most of the posters here are bad mannered is a pretty sweeping statement. If I want something I do my own research and buy what I want when I want. Sometimes the only way to get rid of telemarketers is to either hang up or be downright rude. This only happens after the polite way hasn't had any effect. I only have a limited amount of time on this planet, I think it is bad manners to have my time wasted by someone who is just into making a bit of quick cash, and won't take no for an answer.

 

Oh and if any insurance companies don't want their time wasted by me, they are also free to tell me they aren't interested in giving me a quote. The difference is that I am potentially giving them a profit. If any cold callers ring me to buy something off me I'd be over the moon.

 

 

 

thanks for the strange replies.

 

It seems "Cold calling" is not liked.

 

Where as Manners - Something I was always told everyone has, are gone. My parents taught me to be polite at all times. Something most of you lot aren't.

 

So what about when you guys want car insurance etc etc and cold call for a price and don't buy.... same source but reversed.

[stevie_b]

thanks for the strange replies.

 

It seems "Cold calling" is not liked.

 

Where as Manners - Something I was always told everyone has, are gone. My parents taught me to be polite at all times. Something most of you lot aren't.

 

So what about when you guys want car insurance etc etc and cold call for a price and don't buy.... same source but reversed.

 

I agree about the manners thing: there's almost never a need to swear, shout or call people names. Saying politely but firmly that you're not interested will be just as quick as calling them a c*** m*** h*** f*** g***.

 

I don't agree about the reverse situation you described though: that's not cold-calling, because the person on the other end of the phone in the call centre is fully expecting to receive phone calls about car insurance. Settling down in the evening to watch repeats of Deal Or No Deal on Dave, I'm not expecting to receive a sales call.

[AndrewOW]

i hate it when im under a car in work with a gearbox or diff balanced on my nose trying to find the thread with the bolt and the phone rings.

 

i stop what im doing abandon the position it just took me 20 mins to get into and cost me a pint of blood, to answer incase its a costomer and i get;

 

"hello sir can i ask who pays the phone bill "

 

makes me slightly unhappy

 

Ever thought about getting a mobile phone? I've heard they're quite handy for lots of situations.

[marc_p]

I was duped in to a job once that wasn't as described and turned out to be cold calling, it's an ancient sales technique that should be banned imo, there are far more effective techniques but unfortunately the company wouldn't listen to me and it was just call, call, call. I did really hate it but I did pick up that the Aussie's were definetly the most polite and freindly , as I hated the job and wanted to leave, I just spent most of my time chatting to the Aussies about completely unrelated things as I did not care about getting the sales

[Chris Wilson]

My specialist subject is Jehovah's Witness removal. I can usually have them running up the drive within 30 seconds.

[marc_p]

My specialist subject is Jehovah's Witness removal. I can usually have them running up the drive within 30 seconds.

 

Is that due to having a shotgun license?

[Chris Wilson]

I find a "You think I'm bleedin' daft mate? You're sniffing round my missus again, aren't you? You put on a sharp suit and tie and pretend to be a bleedin' Witness, the damned nerve of it! I'm setting the dog on you, you pervert."

 

Usually works, especially when dressed like a scrap man, with a bunch of very big dogs going ballistic in their eyeline.

[dr_jekyll]

Ever thought about getting a mobile phone? I've heard they're quite handy for lots of situations.

 

business line mate, if its my mobile ill just leave it

[Animal]

I find a "You think I'm bleedin' daft mate? You're sniffing round my missus again, aren't you? You put on a sharp suit and tie and pretend to be a bleedin' Witness, the damned nerve of it! I'm setting the dog on you, you pervert."

 

Usually works, especially when dressed like a scrap man, with a bunch of very big dogs going ballistic in their eyeline.

 

 

I can imagine you doing that, too.

[ivan]

Sorry Tom, but if you're cold calling you deserve all the abuse you get.

[Blackie]

Phone me and i will be rude to you an all.

 

Is that a premium rate number?

[Lbm]

I find a "You think I'm bleedin' daft mate? You're sniffing round my missus again, aren't you? You put on a sharp suit and tie and pretend to be a bleedin' Witness, the damned nerve of it! I'm setting the dog on you, you pervert."

 

Usually works, especially when dressed like a scrap man, with a bunch of very big dogs going ballistic in their eyeline.

 

That's good.

 

My dad invited them in once, and after 2 hours, they asked to leave.

[Tom S]

I don't mind cold calling, But when I say 'no I'm not interested' then thats all that needs saying. It is 'bad manners' as you put it to try and sell in a forceful way when the other party is in no way interested in the product you are selling. I'm not saying you are like this but to say that most of the posters here are bad mannered is a pretty sweeping statement. If I want something I do my own research and buy what I want when I want. Sometimes the only way to get rid of telemarketers is to either hang up or be downright rude. This only happens after the polite way hasn't had any effect. I only have a limited amount of time on this planet, I think it is bad manners to have my time wasted by someone who is just into making a bit of quick cash, and won't take no for an answer.

 

I said that I will be polite. Manners count for nothing matey. I have a job to do, and have done it with the same company in the UK and find people in the UK pleasant enough. It is about as was said treating people the way you would expect.

 

And I am offering a "FREE" service to benefit not actually a sales call. If some one says they are not interested I thank them for their time.

 

after all, as someone said we are only here once, and manners make a difference