Friday, March 10, 2006 - 05:36 pm, by: Aaron Mead(Aaron)
Oh man, Im gonna have to record some of my greatest hits soon.
Just got a guy selling LG mobile phones at NO COST TO YOU, thats right NO COST!!! etc etc....blah blah
Anyway gave him the Borat from Khazakstan treatment this time round. I had him listening to me tell him "My mother, she never love me, she say she wish she was never raped" and also "You know in Khazakstan, goat can vote but not woman, woman is very low. We have Man, then horse, then goat, then dog, then Woman. Why in United States Woman can vote"?
I cant remember if it was the last time, or the time before, but i had some possibly indian bird thinking my name was Mick Dundee. I even made her say 'G'day Mate', 'Crikey', and 'Jesus Bloody Christ' in front of my mates. It was awesome. Yeah we were all pissed but boy did we laugh. I almost spewed it was that bloody unreal!
Oh Jeez. I promise to record the next event. Look forward to it.
Hehe nice work. I get maybe 1-2 calls a day from these morons. Latest trend at home is to tell them that you'll get the person they're looking for, then sit the phone down for half an hour. Wastes their time, and not much of mine.
You guys should go and download some of Jim Florentine's stuff. I think the website is www.jimflorentine.com or something like that. He's got samples there of how he pisses off telemarketers. There's a few where he pretends to be a retard, and one classy one is where a woman calls up regarding a new fone connection or something and as soon as she says a sentence the guy goes "wait, i'll put my brother on the fone" then the other guy goes "hello" she starts talking from the beginning, first sentence "wait, I'll put my brother on the fone" and round round we go... check it out eh.
Does anyone have a 3 mobile? Now try to call up the customer service and get something organised. What a bunch of morons working there, it takes at least 5 or 6 fone calls to get stuff done. For example I wanted to get this mobile broadband organised on my fone. First guy literally has never heard of the internet. Second guy knew what it was but didnt know 3 has it. Third guy knew they have it but was insisting that my fone is not suitable. Fourth guy said yes I can have it but has never heard of the $29 cap for my fone. By the time 55 minutes has passed, and I hanged up on the fools four times and called back the fifth time I finally got someone half competent to actually do what they are told. BTW the whole mobile broadband cap plan is all over the three website! Which is how I knew about it. That is Indian call centres for you
Friday, March 10, 2006 - 06:18 pm, by: Shane Ilich(Ferret)
talk really softly, even apologise for the bad conection, so that they turn up the volume on their headsets...then pick up the air horn you have sitting conveniently next to the phone.....
Friday, March 10, 2006 - 06:32 pm, by: Perry Morgan(Uzz32)
Whereas myself I can't even be arsed being that creative. I put myself on the "call me and I sue" list and have not had a single marketing call in 8 years.
Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:36 pm, by: Aaron Mead(Aaron)
hehe, i love how they show the call centres on A Current Affair or on today Tonight.......poor bastards.
The real scam is them getting paid SFA an hour by GLOBAL NATIONALS to hassle us.
BUT, that has yet to stop me dropping the occasional curry joke over the phone, I'll admit that much..... Hey i once got the PROPPA butter chicken recipe from this indian chick from Optus. Turns out you need a friggin proper tandoori clay oven to get the •••• right, course a Weber BBQ I find does it just as good........bugger.
"I may be a bastard but Im not a F*cking bastard" (GC, From Dusk Till Dawn)
Friday, March 10, 2006 - 11:08 pm, by: Greg Host(Ghost)
My ten year old daughter answered the phone this afternoon and it was an overseas telemarketer. She has been adequately prepared for these phone calls, (usually I tell her just to hang up) but her response this afternoon was the best.
She kept on saying "hello who is this?", and then when they explained she would reply "what did you say?"
Then she kept passing the phone to her friend and back again and each time they would say "how low can you go!" and giggle. Then when the telemarketer asked for an adult, her friend said "just a minute I will put her on" then passes the phone back to my daughter who says in her best indian accent "Hello dis is da muther of de house. What do you tink you are you doing hassling my dorta!!"
I think the telemarketer finally gave up at that point while the girls couldn't stop laughing and almost had me in stitches.
Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 08:03 pm, by: Mark Stott(Rinmax)
Well I've just picked up the tactic of putting them on hold, I then have a scoreboard on the fridge and I time them to see how long they will stay on hold. So far Optusnet is winning with 6 minutes 32 seconds.
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 08:46 am, by: Brad Elphinstone(Belphins)
I had a persistant overseas call centre operator representing a large carrier here insist that the call rates she had were much cheaper than the STAFF DISCOUNT I was getting with another carrier. Then she had the hide to ask me for contact details of other people who might be interested.
Personally, I think the worst kind of marketing being done nowadays is the automated outbound kind, which calls your house only to tell you to stand by and wait for an operator to receive info on 'x' product.
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 09:49 am, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
My most recent call was last week from a woman trying to get me to switch telephone companies. She started by telling me that I was "now" entitled to fifty free calls a month (or something like that). I immediately expressed my great delight, thanked her profusely, and hung up.
I hope to have left her with a lingering uncertainty about whether I was very thick or she was being had.
Monday, March 13, 2006 - 10:07 am, by: Luke Nieuwhof(Luke_nieuwhof)
Brad, I once had a call like that, some telemarketer rang, didn't even say who they were, just said "Please hold." How friggin rude, like I would ever buy anything off that company. There must be enough idiots around buying things from telemarketers to justify their existence though which is the scary part.
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