P2202320PB151842P6143088DSC00097P6143133PA030010P5190094
Home › Blogs › kierduros's blog ›

Telemarketer Tuesday

Tue, 07/28/2009 - 12:30 | Kier Duros
in

For a few weeks now, we've been having numerous phone calls come in from a couple of different numbers that only come up on our caller ID as "800 Service".

They never leave messages.

Of course, that means they're telemarketers of some sort.

Today I got fed up and actually answered the phone.

Me: [company name], this is Chris.
TM: ...
Me: Hello.
TM: ...
Me: HELLO!
TM: ...
Me: HELLO?
TM: Hello.
Me: Yes?
TM: I'm calling from the US Do Not Call Registry...
Me: You're calling from the US Do Not Call Registry?
TM: Yes.
Me: The US Do Not Call Registry has been calling incessantly for the last week?
TM: I'm sorry, I didn't know that was happening. We're calling to let you know that we can stop your business from receiving unwanted telemarketing calls.
Me: You're calling as an unwanted telemarketing call to let me know you can stop unwanted telemarketing calls?
TM: Yes, but...
Me: Why don't you not call back and take us off your list. Bye. *click*

A few hours later, the phone was ringing again. Another "800 Service" number. Another of the ones that's been ringing regularly.

Me: [company name], this is Chris.
TM: ...
Me: Hello?
TM: ...
Me: Hello?
TM: ...
Me: HELLO!
TM: (barely audible) [My boss's name]?
Me: Who's calling?
TM: (much more audible) I'm calling from Registrar.com to let you know that some of your services are expiring.
Me: (refraining from calling total bullshit on the caller as 90% of our services are through Network Solutions) For what site?
TM: [Main company website] has... let me see... private domain registration expiring in one month. I can renew that right now for you.
Me: (Still being nicer than I probably should) We take care of that all online. Don't bother calling us back. Bye. *click*

Yeah. At least it's not robo calls. I hate those even more because they're not even keeping people employed.

I get those at home.

Mostly from collections agencies and places offering me a great deal on my mortgage refinancing.

The collections calls are never for me and I live in an apartment.

How's you're day been? Any crazy calls?

Comments

Crazy Calls

Submitted by Jadxia (not verified) on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:57.

There were two kinds of calls we'd get at my old job that would have me laughing.

The first was for 'service on our copier machine'. These are obviously calls to get the model of your copier, so they can then attempt to sell you discount ink. Only one problem... we were a truly paperless office and didn't have a copier machine.

The other was to have people come in and do an estimate for roofing. I'd tell them to come on by, but that I was not sure we could use their services considering it was a rented apartment and we didn't actually have access to the roof. Funny enough, sometimes they would be so insistent on setting up the estimates I would just laugh and cave. "You can tell them to show up if they want, I don't care."

Crazy Calls

Submitted by Jadxia (not verified) on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:58.

There were two kinds of calls we'd get at my old job that would have me laughing.

The first was for 'service on our copier machine'. These are obviously calls to get the model of your copier, so they can then attempt to sell you discount ink. Only one problem... we were a truly paperless office and didn't have a copier machine.

The other was to have people come in and do an estimate for roofing. I'd tell them to come on by, but that I was not sure we could use their services considering it was a rented apartment and we didn't actually have access to the roof. Funny enough, sometimes they would be so insistent on setting up the estimates I would just laugh and cave. "You can tell them to show up if they want, I don't care."