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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
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Originally posted by Lady Sedai:
What I hate the MOST? That, when they call, most times they ask for me by my first name only like they are my long-lost friend! grrr! That just burns me up! Don't you DARE be so familiar with me when I don't know you, didn't give you my number, don't want you to call and do NOT want your stooopid product!
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Yes, I know! They always start with 'how are you today?' like that makes the call more pleasant and personal. It doesn't, it just wastes more time, not to mention being presumptuous because they don't know me! Whenever they ask me how I am I just respond with 'what can I do for you?' I'm always polite to telemarketers - it's their job and they're not personally doing it to annoy me, and yelling at them and being rude isn't going to stop their companies from using the technique. Which obviously must work or they wouldn't do it! Dunno how though. But I have a lot of trouble being polite with some - we usually just say 'we don't deal with telemarketers' so they might get the message that it isn't that we just don't want their product, like when they call to 'help us' with our home loan (out of the goodness of their hearts, like 
) but we don't have one, but that we wouldn't want their product regardless because of the way they're selling it. But sometimes they say 'oh, we're not telemarketers!' Uuorrr!! Very annoying! [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]I can relate to this, Aelia. I usually tell them 'no thanks, please don't call again' about 2 lines into their canned speeches and most are quite pleasant and say goodbye, but now and then one will continue as if he/she has a chance to convince me to buy whatever it is. That's when I repeat the 'take me off your list' part and hang up.
Your last part reminded me of a guy who called the other night and my husband told him we don't take marketing calls but the guy insisted he wasn't a telemarketer because we had an account with the bank he was calling for and as such they can call existing clients by the 'do not call list rules'. So we took the call, only to have the guy start trying to sell us financial planning information! He got the boot as soon as he answered 'yes' to the question, 'So you ARE selling something?!'