[plug] telemarketers

[Andrew Cowie]

On Fri, 2005-22-07 at 10:00 +0800, Mark Dixon wrote:
> Telemarketer: "Hello Mr Dixon. ..."
> [no one calls me that except sales people and they all do it]
> 
> Me: "Hello.  I take it this is a telemarketing call?"

...

The give-away that I've noticed this month is

        "Can I speak with the business owner?"

Like, duh, if you don't know who that is, then you either don't know who
I am (implying you're a telemarketer), you don't know who we are or what
line of business we're in (implying you're a telemarketer), or you
didn't bother to read our website where it is quite obvious whose
business it is (implying either you're a telemarketer or, if a
salesperson, you didn't bother to do any research at all before phoning
us. Hello! Successful sales is a *relationship* business. Do your
homework for bog's sake).

Sad.

AfC
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