Telemarketing Trick

[SacTown Chronic]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

I always try and remember that they are just trying to make a living, and so am very nice when dealing with telemarketers.

Same here. I try to treat them with dignity and respect. I figure they probably hate calling people more than people hate getting calls from them. After all, nobody says they're gonna be a telemarketer when they grow up. It's only after they try to run roughshod over my polite "no thanks, I'm not interested" that I turn into my grumpy self.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

Same here. I try to treat them with dignity and respect. I figure they probably hate calling people more than people hate getting calls from them. After all, nobody says they're gonna be a telemarketer when they grow up.

At a desperate point in my life many years ago, I took a job as a telemarketer. It was one of the worst jobs I've ever had and I only lasted 3 weeks. I was trying to get people to go to a timeshare seminar and the deceptions were plentiful. For example, we would tell people that it was a lot of fun and usually lasted about an hour. The truth was it was about 2 1/2 hours of high-pressure sales.

The best part though was that whoever attented the seminar was guaranteed one of 4 prizes. These were either; a 27" color tv, a $1000 gift certificate to Nordstroms, a new truck, or a vacation to Hawaii. Take a guess which one 99.9% of the people won.

Spoiler:

Most people think it is the TV but it was actually the trip to Hawaii. It did not include airfare and was simply accomidations at a low budget motel.

Anyway, I just didn't like having a job that required that I deceive people. I also was a little leery of the fact that we changed our address twice in the two weeks I was there.

So when I do get a telemarketer on the phone, I'm always polite because I remember what it was like when someone was rude to me. As Sac points out, I didn't want to call them anymore than they wanted to be called. I will usually tell them that I appreciate their call but I'm just not interested at the moment. If they persist at that point, I simply hang up.