Phone Call
Me: Hello?
BT Lady: Hello may I speak with Mrs Lewis please?
Me: This is Miss Lewis.
BT Lady: Hello Mrs Lewis I am phoning today to offer you the best deals on your line rentals and can you tell me whether you get any sales phone calls which you find inconvenient or annoying at all?
Me: Not really.
BT Lady: Oh you do that’s what most of our customers have been saying well I can offer you a free update on your rental which -
Me: I said I don’t really get any sales calls?
BT Lady: – will display on your handset the number calling and then you can choose to answer the phone if appropriate or terminate the call would this be something you are interested in?
Me: No, I don’t get -
BT Lady: Does your handset have a display which shows the caller number?
Me: No.
BT Lady: That’s good the free update will enable your phone to show on the number on the display can I sign you up for the free update today?
Me: I don’t have a display on my phone.
BT Lady: That’s no problem because in the future when you change your handset to one with a display you will -
Me: Look, I’m really not interested, thank you for phoning but -
BT Lady: – still be entitled to the caller display update -
Me: – I’m sorry, I’m not interested -
BT Lady: – but this is free Mrs Lewis and -
Me: – and I’m in the middle of lunch time with my daughter so -
BT Lady: – there are many more updates I can tell you about today and -
Me: - I’m going to hang up now -
BT Lady: – I have to inform you that this call is being recorded for training purposes -
Me: – you’re doing BRILLIANTLY, good bye
BT Lady: - thank you for your time Mrs Lewis -
*click*
You were far more polite then I would have been.
When they phone we pass the phone to the toddlers. They love a good natter they do!
Mahahahahahah good tactic…
Hahaha ohhh I hate those!
Indeed. Waste of time, innit
how irritating, i would hang up. i have caller display and if it comes up ‘international’ i pick up then hang up. we have had the microsoft scam but my other half knows computers and played them at their own game. i have a ‘no cold callers sign on my door’ but they still call and when i point it out to them they say “oh im not selling” “why are you on my doorstep then? you aint getting a free cuppa mate, sod off”!
Yeah I should have been a bit more brutal but she caught me unawares. Next time I will def hang up!
Hilarious!
Daft innit
Here in the states we have a “do not call list” that keeps them from calling. It works about 90% of the time, but occasionally the little pricks get through. If I don’t recognize the phone number, I don’t answer. I like @babberblog’s idea. Genius!
LOL I feel sorry for all the call centre people who have to phone any of us now…
BT Lady: “Can you tell me whether you get any sales phone calls which you find inconvenient or annoying at all?”
You: “Yes, right now!”
PMSL I know, I thought of that as soon as I put the phone down!! Duh
I’m afraid I just hang up on them too. The only exception was when I was scam called by someone claiming to be from Microsoft. Here I played dumb for about 2 minutes before asking her what IP address I was using to connect and while she was floundering saying ‘because I’ve just used it to send your Microsoft office some hard core pornography”. She hung up before I could get to ‘now fuck off’.
LOL I – rather stupidly – gave my bank details to someone claiming to be from my bank (I know, I know) years ago. Funnily enough, nothing ever happened, despite me waking up in a cold sweat about it a few times. I reckon they looked the moneyless pit that was my bank account and felt sorry for me!
I’m loving @badderblog’s suggestion. These people piss me off to the extent that I often don’t answer the phone, because i get so many of these shitty calls. I want one of those services that stops (well tries to stop) them. Ermm. – but I don’t want a BT lady phoning me out of the blue.
I never answer my phone, and today proved to me exactly why I shouldn’t. Two minutes of my life I’ll never get back!
That’s funny cuz I never answer the front door unless i’m expecting someone. The old lady next door thinks our doorbell doesn’t work because of this :p
I wouldn’t answer the door but it’s kind of obvious if I’m in or not, dammit
Good for sales people, bad for neighbour relations :p
LOL. I have the caller ID thing. It’s handy but I don’t feel like I’ve done enough with it. May just scream at the spammy callers.
You have a handset with a display? I’m so jealous.
You deserve a medal for letting her get that far. I would already have told her to go forth and multiply on the grounds she got my name wrong AND disturbed my lunch.
It was one of those times when they just talk relentlessly. I could not vanquish her in time.
I just hang up the second I realise it’s a sales call. Yes, it’s rude but I’m on the tps so they shouldn’t be calling me anyway!
That’s my usual method. I don’t know why I started speaking. Loneliness, maybe *weeps*
Next time: “I’m sorry, can you hold on a minute, I just need to turn the TV off so I can hear you”
Place (still connected) phone on table/floor/unicorn.
Go to park/pub.
Oh that is GENIUS
I am soooo doing that next time.
Yeah and leave some dreadful music playing.
Haha, awesome!