It can’t be an efficient business model. Cold calling people must suck. Trying to sell insurance, exercise equipment, internet service, long distance…blah blah blah….awful.
Here’s the scary thing - they keep doing it. Therefore, some people must actually bite.
I’ve had an idea on how to bring them down - if we all banned together, we could end the telemarketers FOREVER.
Here it is:
Waste their time, make it inefficient for them, make it so bad they hang up on YOU.
Here’s how:
Ask long winded questions, and sound interested in buying. Try this sentence: “Wow what a coincidence, I’ve really been meaning to BUY product XYZ, can you give me every reason you can why I should buy through you?” Then set down the phone, and pick it back up 10 minutes later. If you have time to kill, like while you’re stirring dinner, it usually works best. All it takes is “Oh, wow, keep going, tell me more” and they will keep wasting their time. Once you get bored, start asking them dumb questions about their product. “Well, if I take your product apart, and use it on my cat, will you take it back if it brakes?”.
I don’t even have a cat.
One story:
One time, in the most indian voice ever, I hear on the other end of the phone “Hello, I’m Ronald Smith, I’m calling from Rogers…we’re trying to promote blah blah blah” ME: “WAIT - what’s you’re middle name, and how do you spell it?” He shit. Ronald Smith, clearly born in the middle east clearly must have changed his name when he picked up the phone. He didn’t have a middle name. And then, he couldn’t spell Smith. But what’s funny, is he could spell Ronald. He didn’t get it, so I kept asking him questions while I stirred my mac-and-cheese. He eventually got pissed and threatened to “Tell his boss on me” HAHAHAHAHA. I HAVE NO idea what his boss was going to do, but I said “Put him on, I’d like to tell on YOU, and then waste some of his time, that’d be fun - don’t you think?” He hung up. I won.
Recent Comments