Contributing Member Denise Posted June 9, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted June 9, 2009 In Canada, by law the person calling is required to give you their phone number and the company they are calling from, especially if you are on the do not call registry. So now whenever "Michael" or "Rachel" call about our credit card interest rates, I immediately press 1 to talk to a real person, tell them that by law they need to give me this information and ask for it. They hang up, of course, because it is a scam and not a legitimate business. But they haven't bothered me quite as often since I started doing this. Quote
Moderator Johanna Posted June 10, 2009 Moderator Report Posted June 10, 2009 Two words: "Caller ID". My mom went to the fair and filled out every coupon for every drawing with my name and phone number because I am home to take the calls for when she would win. Bah! We never win anything except dozens of calls who have a legit reason to bypass the DNC list. I don't want to buy siding, an alarm system, a new mattress, be converted to a new religion, lease a car or get home water cooler delivery service. I would have loved to win the bicycle or the new roof, but oh well. If you call me with a "blocked number", I probably won't pick up the phone at all. And if you do pick up one of those sales calls, a quick "No thanks!" and hang up. Don't let them talk, since it is a business line. My dad will always say, "let me go get my wife..." (he's not married) and then set the phone down and go back to whatever he is doing. He says it's an even trade- his time for theirs. Johanna Quote You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted June 10, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted June 10, 2009 I guess perhaps the only thing that would top Johanna's dad's method would be to have some 'elevator music' on the Ipod and ready to go..... Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
HorsehairBraider Posted June 11, 2009 Report Posted June 11, 2009 I don't have this problem (because most of my customers contact me via the internet) but a friend does. Don't know if this is true... but she always answers her phone with her business name. She says that some of them are not allowed to call a business, so they hang up. Some kind of rule about it, apparently. As a warning, if they are calling to try and get you to sign up for a merchant account, it's most likely a scam. Someone was doing that to another friend and when she asked for a reference, they gave her a number at Chase. Turns out the person was a scammer, but knew the number for a legitimate company and gave that out as though that was their company. It was not. Chase collected the information from my friend about this scam and hopefully shut it down, but there will always be scams. Now, if you want to have some *REAL* fun with these guys... do the counter-question form found here. You might even be able to find out what toothpaste they use! Quote They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. - Ben Jonson http://www.beautiful-horses.com
Members DigiTanha Posted August 20, 2009 Members Report Posted August 20, 2009 The secretaries at my day job just tell telemarketers they are an answering service and the telemarketers usually hang up. Quote
Ian Posted August 20, 2009 Report Posted August 20, 2009 In the days when I had a regular business number in the phone book, it was constant and relentless. My workshop area and retail area were seperate, so every call required me to drop what I was doing and go around to the store. Sure as sheets it was always when I had started stitching or glueing. Drove me up the freaking wall - that and walk-in salespeople. Quote http://blackcanyonleather.net/
Members celticleather Posted August 20, 2009 Members Report Posted August 20, 2009 I usually ask them to hold for a moment, and then go back after 15 minutes . . . and they've gone! They waste my time - I waste theirs! Quote When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody
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