Overseas Phone sales call??

Anyone else had one of these?

Some woman from a call centre in India calls me up half an hour ago
wanting to give me a brand new mobile phone for FREE as long as I
attach it to one of their call plans. Lowest was $25 per month.

She knew a lot of detail about me and where I live etc etc.

Bit scary, but I told her she was wasting her time because I'd sooner
give my business to an Aussie outfit rather than someone from another
country.

Kind regards
Dave Milligan

 

I get those calls about once a week. Now when I hear a curry muncher on the
phone, I just hang up.

 

Everyone uses Indian call centers at the moment. Ghods only
know why, it's a dead giveaway that this is going to be another
call center call and you might as well politely hang up and
go eat your dinner before it gets cold.

Could be worse: I got a call the other day that sounded like the
fellow on the other end was hollerin' down a long piece of metal
pipe ... perhaps a very cheap VoIP carrier or something, or
maybe the Daleks are trying to sell me something.

-----sharks

 

Everyone uses Indian call centers at the moment. Ghods only

I like to use the one: - "That sounds good, but I need some more info from
you. Can you hang on while I go and get a pen?"
Put the phone down, and the walk away. Don't put it back on the hook until
you hear the beeps on the other end.

Every time I do it, I can happily think to myself that (A) I'm costing the
jerks who try this form of marketing money, and (B) I'm saving someone else
the pain of being telemarketed to.

 

Not everyone.

My young bloke works in a call centre run by one of the major pollsters.
He said he had a midnight shift the other week, so I asked "Who do you
call at 1 in the morning?"

"Americans."

Moike

 

Yeah **** 'em. They deserve to be woken up at 1am

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

"She" phoned me and i asked for SEX [in a nice polite way]

She slammed the phone down on me.....

CDIHL

 

Anyone else had one of these?

I always politely explain that I would love to listen to everything they
have to say, but that as I am a contractor, my time costs money, and so
the first thing they need to tell me is their invoice address so I can
bill them at the end of the call.

No takers yet unfortunately :-(
At a mere $400/h (for them), a 5 minute call would bring in $33. Almost
worth it.

David

 

er
that was 1am our time Neville

 

woosh!
;-)

 

So there's the solution.

If the phone rings, don't pick it up!

Moike

 

Sometimes you lot are way too obscure for a cunning simpleton like myself.
*sits in corner and sulks*

 

there's that cun word again

 

The sad bit is that he thinks he IS!!
Clem

 

Works for me, and drives the ex crazy ...

Cheers
Goaty