Cold calling...
Posted by J i m
Yesterday (just as I were about to walk out my door to drive to work, so if I'm honest I was even less open to this kind of thing than usual) the phone rings, I forget the name of the company, but they asked me if they were speaking to my name, to which I naively confirmed, they then immediately assumed it was okay to call me by some nickname. So already I was quite wary of this call.
Then they started talking about me having been in a road accident a "couple of years ago" (very vague I thought) and that they could help me claim compensation of "approximately four figures".
Now, and this is the funny part, I've never been involved in a road accident in my life, neither driving, as passenger or pedestrian. So since I literally had one foot out of my door to go to work I wasted no time in informing them of this crucial little nugget of information.
"I don't understand" I replied, "I've never been involved in a road traffic incident in my life."
They seemed genuinely surprised at this.
"Oh really?!" they said in a high pitched tone of surprise "Are you sure?"
"Um..." I begun "I'd think I'd remember to be honest."
"Oh... ah.. oohkay, erm I'll remove your details from the system and you won't hear from us again."
I fully expect another phone call imminently
. There's a important point in there to, firstly they didn't enquire if it was a good time for me to talk, they didn't ask permission to refer to me by a altered version of my name, yet in my experience this part is typical of cold callers. When claims advisory group originally called me about PPI mis-selling, they told me that I had such a beautiful name etc, and this just struck me as such a blatantly transparent attempt to manipulate.
From now on, any phone call from any company, I'll always ask them what the phone call is about before confirming any piece of information, even my name.
Then they started talking about me having been in a road accident a "couple of years ago" (very vague I thought) and that they could help me claim compensation of "approximately four figures".
Now, and this is the funny part, I've never been involved in a road accident in my life, neither driving, as passenger or pedestrian. So since I literally had one foot out of my door to go to work I wasted no time in informing them of this crucial little nugget of information.
"I don't understand" I replied, "I've never been involved in a road traffic incident in my life."
They seemed genuinely surprised at this.
"Oh really?!" they said in a high pitched tone of surprise "Are you sure?"
"Um..." I begun "I'd think I'd remember to be honest."
"Oh... ah.. oohkay, erm I'll remove your details from the system and you won't hear from us again."
I fully expect another phone call imminently
. There's a important point in there to, firstly they didn't enquire if it was a good time for me to talk, they didn't ask permission to refer to me by a altered version of my name, yet in my experience this part is typical of cold callers. When claims advisory group originally called me about PPI mis-selling, they told me that I had such a beautiful name etc, and this just struck me as such a blatantly transparent attempt to manipulate.From now on, any phone call from any company, I'll always ask them what the phone call is about before confirming any piece of information, even my name.
If they do offer you money tell them that you have a cousin in Nigeria who wants the money and that they should wire it to him directly.
When being phoned by companies I always pretend to have tourette MUTHA FU*KAS.
No kidding, it REALLY happend. Some Last Day Church missionaries were at my door recently. They said "We'd like to talk with you about God." I said "Why? What has that little brat done this time?" They left.
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
No kidding, it REALLY happend. Some Last Day Church missionaries were at my door recently. They said "We'd like to talk with you about God." I said "Why? What has that little brat done this time?" They left.
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
a couple of jehovas knocked on my door one time and only my brother was in.
bearing in mind he is 22, has brittle bones and is only about 4'10 tall.
the couple greeted him with the line: 'hello. i can see you are suffering...'
needless to say he swore at them and shut the door.
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it
bearing in mind he is 22, has brittle bones and is only about 4'10 tall.
the couple greeted him with the line: 'hello. i can see you are suffering...'
needless to say he swore at them and shut the door.
I think I had a call from the same people today - asking if I'd been in an accident recently. I grilled them and they said they will have 'been passed my number' from an insurer if I'd had a claim recently, or from a couple of comparison websites.
When I was about 8 and was at my grandparents house in the countryside, some of those people came by. I said we were all Jews and they left. Why I said that I don't know but it worked .
.Some people came to the door last weekend and asked if I could help out towards the floods in Pakistan, I said I'd love to but my garden hose only reaches the front gate.
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