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The brilliant thing is that not only does the caller pay a fortune, but
he cannot pester anyone else for that time.
I wish I had the patience to do that.
I try to be as surreal as possible with them. A similar technique to the
answering one they have not asked but more fun. I had one who announced
she was from a 'Wholesale company' so I said we had a lot of holes
already. She spent a good ten minutes trying to explain what a wholesale
company was and I continued to deliberately misunderstand her. In the
end said 'Sorry, I'm bored now' and put the phone down. I also had one
at work who asked 'can I speak to the person in charge of your
mobiles?'. I replied ' No one is in charge of them, they run around all
over the place. We've tried sheep dogs and ,,' then he put the phone
down. A diving friend of mine had a great conversation with a guy
obviously from a foreign call centre. He started with 'Hello, My name is
Michael' in an obviously Indian accent. My friend say ' No it isn't' and
they had a good argument about whether his name was Michael or not'.
Never got a chance to get the sales pitch in. The best one, however,
came from another of my diving friends who was told that his home had
been 'specially selected from all the homes in the area' to take
advantage of a cut price conservatory so long as they let the company
use the photographs in the brochure. He was very interested and asked
all sorts of questions, going into costings and types of conservatory on
offer. They made arraignments to come over and measure up for the
installation and, just before they rang off he said 'Just one thing -
this is a first floor flat'.
Back to the subject of the CD with prank noises, Darren Branagh won't
like being reminded about this one. I sent him a cassette with the
words "relaxing music" on the label, but in reality it was about 20
minutes' worth of sheep noises. Apparently he nearly crashed his car -
he decided to play the tape on his car radio to find out what this
"relaxing music" was, and the volume happened to be up high!
Only way to listen to relaxing music I find.
--
Roy Wood
Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030 fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501
web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk
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