Isn’t it obvious?

Since being on maternity leave, I have obviously been around to receive telemarketing phonecalls and visits from door to door sales people/researcher at home during the day. I find myself saying the same things to all of them along the lines of this:

Telemarketer: Blah blah blah, would you like to assist us by answering some questions, this may take up to 10 minutes blah blah..

Me: No sorry, it's not convenient for me to do this sort of thing as I have a young baby here with me.

Telemarketer: Would it be alright if I call back?

Me: Well no, because my baby is still going to be here then as well..

Ok so I know it's their job to call etc, but am I not communicating it clearly enough the first time so that they shouldn't have to insist on another call? It's no biggee really...just found myself saying it all again today and wondered if you all say the same sort of things?

arrggh drives me nuts too.

I usually get sick of them ringing at t time it drve's me nut's so now I jsut say well this is a silly time of the day to be calling.  They then ask when it is convient to call back my responce is Never goodbye.

Argh, this is so annoying!! A friend of mine told me a good repsonse the other day...

Telemarketer: May I phone you back at another time?

Me: How about you give me your number and I'll phone you back sometime?

(It's probably an old joke, but I thought it was funny)

rubydooby wrote: Argh, this is so annoying!! A friend of mine told me a good repsonse the other day... Telemarketer: May I phone you back at another time? Me: How about you give me your number and I'll phone you back sometime? (It's probably an old joke, but I thought it was funny)

PERFECT!

or even How about you give me your number and I'll phone you back when you're trying to have dinner?


Edited by Two Blondinis

rubydooby wrote: Argh, this is so annoying!! A friend of mine told me a good repsonse the other day... Telemarketer: May I phone you back at another time? Me: How about you give me your number and I'll phone you back sometime? (It's probably an old joke, but I thought it was funny)

My daddy used to say that all the time. He was a truck driver (in the USA) and for him, dinner time (6 - 7pm or so) was bedtime - sometimes he was already in bed by then, having to get up anywhere from 1am to 4am in the morning. His response was "Give me your number and I'll be happy to call you back when I get up."

They have a script to follow. I ask them to remove me from their call list.

I filled in that form ages ago and we still get calls

the worst one I had was when I was in the hospital with Jack and we had a recorded phone call from a mortgage broker come through to the phone in my room, no idea how as the phones are through the switch board.

I actually had the rudest one last night, I told her I wasn't interested and she instantly hung up the phone, not good representation for the company.

And as for incorrect numbers, I used to work for a company who had a similar number to what now, and on Sundays there was always a kid that called demanding that we were what now and that we were lying and then would get quite rude and swear at us, quite unbelievable really for a young person the language he used.

The one that frustrates me the most is sky, we have sky yet we still get called asking if we want to take advantage of their latest deal. The last one offered us 2 months free rental. I said it sounded like a great deal and the girl got all excited, till I asked if they would be crediting my account with the 2 months rental, I am so mean hehehe

We frequently get calls from Telecom, trying to attract us back (we get everything through Slingshot). Nat and I say that we would consider switching back if they (Telecom) could match the deal we currently have. When they ask what, we tell them how we get free tolls. Whoever we are talking to quickly admits they can't do that and the conversation ends. Works every time!