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So this smartly dressed gadger turns up at my gaff, knocks on the door which is duly answered by my missus. "Do want any double glazing?" He asks, his smart appearance clearly be-lying the state of his brain and powers of observation...
"...er, no thanks" replies my missus ""We've only just had this lot done" and points out the front windows that he is standing next to that are less than a year old.
"Oh" the buffoon says then adds "How about your drive...do you want it tarmac'd?" My wife laughs says "No thanks" and shuts the door.
Idiot bloke then walks back down my already well tarmacced drive to access the next house and ask the same banal questions.
All this time I'm upstairs decorating the front bedroom looking out of the window and thinking to myself "God, wished I'd answered the door - I'd ask him if he was taking the Pi**".
Some sales people really don't do themselves, or their ilk any favours. Sorry if that offends anyone on here but, well, I'll leave you to work out the rest.
Another cream bun anyone?
dizzyblonde
21-03-11, 07:49 PM
....and the third question....do ya waann any dahgs?
pikey salesman if you ask me!
Specialone
21-03-11, 09:44 PM
The next time my door knocks and the person standing there asks me about swapping my energy suppliers is gonna wish he hadnt.
Im a builder, with a sign writen van on my drive and i have people knock the door touting for work, the cheeky gits, one even said he was doing a roof over the road and could see some tiles needed replacing on my roof, like id let a complete stranger on my roof when i do them myself and know at least 3 really good ones.:smt101
Was at Mum and dad's about 10yrs back when I guy came knocking, asking if they wanted a fire escape. Dad p!$$ himself laughing then shouted me to the door...
A fire escape in a bungalow! :D:D
missyburd
21-03-11, 11:47 PM
Hope you didn't have anything metal anywhere in your garden...
i've had the same power guy round 3 times within the past 2 months. the third time i had a little rant at him much along the lines of.
me - do you fancy me?
him - no answer.
me - look m8 i know your just trying to make a living but harassing people to change fuel company's is not the way to do it. even if i decided to change provider i would not consider Scottish Power now because of your actions not that you would be on the list anyway. this will be the third time i'm going to say that i'm not interested.
him - but we are cheaper than Sottish Hydro and i dont understand why you would pay more! (as he has been here before and knows who my provider is)
me - coz Scottish Power are a bunch of muppets.
him - why
lengthy discussion about how they muck bills up and refuse to give payments out saying that we will carry it over to the next billing etc. etc. then state that Hydro automatically reimburse me straight into my account.
and dont get me started on the feckwit Skytv morons.
metalmonkey
22-03-11, 12:30 AM
One house the kitchen was at thr front of house, I was stood in the kitchen talking to my mates I see this guy walking towards the door...needless to say he heard me swear through the closed windows he look so beat up lol.
It's cos they usually look like the sort of chumps in suits you just wana deck anyway.
Wouldn't be complaining if it was hot girls in hot pants selling you double glazing now would you? :-)
davepreston
22-03-11, 06:38 AM
It's cos they usually look like the sort of chumps in suits you just wana deck anyway.
Wouldn't be complaining if it was hot girls in hot pants selling you double glazing now would you? :-)
yes i fecking would, cos the barstewards always knock my door when im on nights waking me up
but they dont hang about when the half asleep and obviously angry 6 foot irishman answers the door
Had a cold caller come to the door a while back asking if we wanted to sign up to TalkTalk. I declined but he decided to go into the discussions of how much I would save blah blah blah. I let him waffle on for an age before telling him it sounded great but still wasn't interested in switching from my current supplier. He then decided to ask who my current supplier was. "TalkTalk" I said and then shut the door on him.
Surely to god these people must be given information as to which households are already on the service he is trying to offer. :roll:
metalangel
22-03-11, 08:00 AM
It's cos they usually look like the sort of chumps in suits you just wana deck anyway.
This. They're always straight out of college, cheap Asda suit, badly done tie (looks more like a napkin), those ridiculous shoes that look like jai lai scoops, stupid haircut, giant teeth and usually a 'cheeky chappie' voice.
"Awright mate?" it begins.
I all but slammed the door in the face of the one who said, "oh, are you American or something then?" :smt093
arenalife
22-03-11, 01:34 PM
I had someone slick round from Scottish power and being a bit bored let him explain why I was going to save so much money (despite U switch telling me I was on the best already). It was very compelling and I couldn't argue with the cost per unit against what I was paying. It took a good hour with the small print to find the sting - they have you on high rate electric for over 5 times the time that the others do, so you end up paying more.
Some pikeys tarmac'ed my Kerry's grans flagstone path and patio for £750. The white bits in the tarmac were made of polo mints.
We once stopped her buying a £1000 carpet cleaner on the door step by a matter of minutes.
The ones that prey on the vunerable are the worse.
i eventually ahd someone round about a conservatory after 4 failed phonecalls to explain i didn't really want one. I relented and let them send someone round. The guy eventually turned up on my door looking bemused and proceeded to ask me if I was having a laugh! I told him the only one who were having a laugh was his company harrassing me oby phone and not listening - maybe they would listen to one of their own staff.
I live in a third floor flat!
i eventually ahd someone round about a conservatory after 4 failed phonecalls to explain i didn't really want one. I relented and let them send someone round. The guy eventually turned up on my door looking bemused and proceeded to ask me if I was having a laugh! I told him the only one who were having a laugh was his company harrassing me oby phone and not listening - maybe they would listen to one of their own staff.
I live in a third floor flat!
Excellent. :lol:
Excellent. :lol:
Yes - I agree...a proper pearler!!
Jayneflakes
22-03-11, 04:17 PM
I hate with a passion Door to Door sales people.
While I was unemployed, I was so desperate for a job I applied for anything I was capable of doing, which included a job as a Media Sales Executive with these vile Swine (http://www.mantramarketinggroup.co.uk/).
I have never walked out of an interview before, but I did from that one. The overly made up harridan and the Nigerian managers were shady enough in the damp and rotting, but well postered office which the shared with a religious cult in Bristol.
They wanted me to go door to door selling encyclopadias to old ladies, because
"Old Ladies do not say no!"
Look out for anyone who works for the Cobra Group, Mantra Marketing or any of the other vile filthbags. The companies that own them are barely with in the law. I repported them to the employment service and yet every week, they e-mail me asking me if I want employment as a Sales Executive!
Filthy Vile Scum and the sort of people who do well in it have no morals! The swear filter will not allow me to use the words I want to use to describe these gits. Sadly at my interview were a lot of immigrants who would not understand that commission only sales was a bad job, especially door to door.
Some good stories here :lol:
I just seem to get the "we will give you a free quotation" people.
I don't want one
Why would you not want it, its totally free.
If I wanted it, I am intelligent enough to arrange it, not deal with some mindless moronic robot who randomly turns up at my door jsut as i've got home from the work rush hour....
And they continue on and on and on until you end up saying something like, if you don't stop talking, im just going to shut the door in your face, which eventually ends up leading me to do it anyway, as they carry on.
Bluefish
22-03-11, 06:05 PM
we had a double glazing chap a couple of years ago, now bear in mind we do need our single glazing upvc replacing, anyhow 3-4hrs later, 12-13k, think he got it down to about 7k, 4 would have been steep, needless to say it still needs doing, mebe next year lol.
metalangel
23-03-11, 09:13 AM
When I was desperate and jobless I saw a job for a 'marketing company', who did 'marketing' for phone companies and such. I thought I could do that, writing leaflets and material.
No, marketing, you see, is 'going door to door'. I got to accompany one of their guys to see what I thought of the job because the job was 'mine if I wanted it'.
There was no basic salary, it was all commission based, so you had to be a complete bar steward. We drove to some housing development in the Valleys somewhere and this berk (as I described above) went to each house in turn, being told to eff off by all but one polite, demure Indian lady who invited us in to fill out the paperwork while I marveled at her immaculate house.
Definitely not the job for me, I decided. I'm too nice and honest to sell things.
I work from home alot and noticed the frankly amazing amount of phone calls our house receives during the day!!!
One a few week ago was a lady on the phone asking if we were interested in a qoute for a fitted kitchen. I said no our house is relatively new and does not need a new kitchen. She then asks 'how new?', I said 'new enough'... this went on for a minutes or so before I told her in less polite words to **** off.
metalangel
23-03-11, 09:29 AM
Yeah, if I get up early enough on a late shift (or get home early from the early shift) the landline rings a lot.
ME: Hello.
THEM: Can I speak to (Mrs Meaty) please?
ME: Who's calling please.
THEM: It's Susie Scruttocks calling from Bumface Energy.
ME: We're not interested, thank you.
THEM: Well, can I speak to Mrs Meaty about that please?
ME: Mrs Meaty doesn't pay the energy bills in this household, I do.
THEM: Who are you?
ME: That's not your concern, I've already told you I'm not interested. I don't do business with companies that cold call me.
THEM: So you're saying you are happy that you're spending too much money?
ME: Yes, I love wasting money! It's great! Good bye. *slams down phone*
I love the car warranty providers too. They phone about a car I sold years ago. Once they actually knew what car I had at the moment, so I listed everything that had needed repairing on the car and asked if it was covered by the warranty. They said no. I said their warranty was worthless to me then, wasn't it?
Ceri JC
23-03-11, 10:41 AM
Look out for anyone who works for the Cobra Group, Mantra Marketing or any of the other vile filthbags. The companies that own them are barely with in the law. I repported them to the employment service and yet every week, they e-mail me asking me if I want employment as a Sales Executive!
Filthy Vile Scum and the sort of people who do well in it have no morals! The swear filter will not allow me to use the words I want to use to describe these gits.
Having had a look at their website, I came across the following:
http://www.mantramarketinggroup.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/premier-club-meeting-bristol/P2200130.jpg
Now there's a couple of faces you wouldn't get tired of kicking.
The door to door chimps from British gas crack me up. "Come back to us ...yadda yadda yadda ...cheaper ... yadda yadda yadda ..."
Me: The reason I left British Gas had nothing to do with money.
Them: Oh?
Me: Well, the fact you're calling at my door and don't know why I left doesn't exactly demonstrate that they've improved their processes.
Them: Why's that?
Me: Well, the fact that there is supposed to be a note on my file explaining my history with you and the fact that I will only deal with people who are aware of this. [I then proceed to regale them with their full catalogue of British Gas' myriad failings in the 3 months I had the misfortune of being their customer].
I never buy the "I'm just doing my job" line from anyone; salesmen, camera van operators, telesales, etc. If you don't agree morally with something you do in your job, either refuse to do that part of it, or FIND ANOTHER ****ING JOB. Believe it or not, there are jobs which actually benefit society and don't hack off the general populace every time they have dealings with you. It really is not that difficult.
:smt069
Balky001
23-03-11, 10:17 PM
I can't be asked to get angry anymore with these guys. I usually say, you called me last week and said you'd take my number off the marketing list. They never have pushed it further after that.
The worst I've experienced was with Three, very aggressive when cancelling my phone contract, even when asking the woman to just stop talking she said it takes 20 minutes to cancel the contract and it would be rude not to talk to me - then tried to sell me monthly top ups and saying I was mad to pay more with another provider! I did mention I'd rather pay twice as much if I didn't ever have to speak to 3 India customer services again.
I've worked in sales, most people were pretty decent but you get a lot focused on making money and treating the general public like scum. But when you work in retail you realise most people are pretty odd
metalangel
24-03-11, 06:14 AM
I've worked customer services for most of my working life in a variety of degrading and crappy jobs, so I'm always polite initially... it's only when they push their luck that I might get stroppy.
Specialone
24-03-11, 06:47 AM
If you get a lot of calls at home from scummers trying to sell you something, do what I do, get a answering machine.
We screen our calls, everybody who knows us just says 'pick up it's only xxxxxx' the cold callers never leave a message as it's normally auto dialing from there end.
They get pi55ed off ringing the machine so give up after a while :)
davepreston
24-03-11, 06:55 AM
We screen our calls, everybody who knows us just says 'pick up it's only xxxxxx'
so that why i can never get ye, ya barsteward, oh love its dave dont answer, right ya git i'll be seeing you
;)
Specialone
24-03-11, 07:08 AM
so that why i can never get ye, ya barsteward, oh love its dave dont answer, right ya git i'll be seeing you
;)
That's exactly why I have a machine dave ;)
Only kidding :)
davepreston
24-03-11, 07:11 AM
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlCQClFDWeb1bX-CqaFJ0nVs_ab-IxP7R77LU-SqArvuTvwNkLYC_s_h8 (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://loyalkng.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/yoda.jpg&imgrefurl=http://loyalkng.com/2010/07/10/tomtom-gps-star-wars-commercial-branded-voice-yoda-directions-left-mmhmm/&usg=___U8GybeiGHBfbu8ABN1jYapAhRg=&h=604&w=798&sz=62&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&tbnid=ewtZu0eqOW5ddM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=143&ei=Su6KTZbBMZKGhQfHiq2_DQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyoda%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rl s%3DGGLG,GGLG:2007-31,GGLG:en%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1)
his down fall will his overconfidance be mmmmh
Ditto on the phone.
It goes to answer machine. Only 2 people call that number, so they can either leave a message and i'll pickup mid message, or not answer it at all.
daveangel
24-03-11, 01:00 PM
Get yourself registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and if you are with BT you can have caller I.D. display if your phone has number display and is compatible, it is free and all you have to do is look at the screen when it rings, to decide whether to pick up or ignore it.
I have in the past just quietly put the phone down leaving the numpty on the other end to chunter on, or talked complete b*llocks in the style of The Fast Show's 'Channel 9'. Buenos Edente, Sminki Pinki, Chris Waddle. .
Paul the 6th
24-03-11, 01:15 PM
those auto dialling guys are great fun, breaking off mid job to answer the phone at work, there's usually a 2-3 second gap of silence before they start talking..
It's good to lead them on for 30 seconds before asking them to hang on a second.... give em 20 seconds, then ask them to just hold on 1 minute - leave the phone on the side and waste some of their time..
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