Hello:

I was a telemarketer once. I was real good at it, though. I mean REAL, REAL good. I believed in what I was selling, otherwise I wouldn't/couldn't have sold it. My customers believed in it too. Not one of them thought of me as a telemarketer. They thought of me as a valuable addition to their life - and I was.

It REALLY is a matter of perspective.

excon

PS> It helps that I have the uncanny ability to correctly pronounce peoples names on the fly.

That would make the difference excon.

Oh man, my name could be slaughtered, (and it is) all the time... you may be right, I would be nicer if they could actually pronounce my name! Hee hee, it doesn't change the fact that I don't want what they are giving!
When I had that job, I was just trying to get people to support the Public Television Corp... so all I could really give was a coffee mug it they supported by giving more than $50.00... LMAO

I ask what they are selling. If I don't want it, I just say "I'm sorry sir/ma'am, I'm not interested. Have a nice day, though." It works good for me. I always ask what they are selling first, just because sometimes charities make calls like that. Sometimes telemarketers can be selling good stuff also. If they keep calling back, I just say, "I'm sorry, I already told someone from your company that I'm not interested. Thank you anyway." They usually get the hint.

Peggy how do they get the hint if they keep calling back? :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Originally Posted by parttime

that's the working poor on the other end of the line, some respect would be nice.

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They may be the working poor but that gives them no right to bother me with their sales pitches after I am home from a long and strenuous day. They can call me at the office and make an appointment the same as a real salesman does. Plus most of my calls are from credit card people that have got this country into a terrible mess by extending credit to people that can not pay their balance or their minimum payment and then turn up on the bankruptcy rolls,

Letmetellu you are so right here. Just wished I could rate but will comment anyway.