Those dreaded sales calls!

Don't you just hate sales call...

I used to look forward to the phone ringing, to hear a familiar voice of a friend or a family member but nowadays I dread answering the phone. Why? Because of those dreaded sales calls, marketing calls and other stupid calls of people offering you new windows and doors, credit cards, loans, etc. I sooooo fed up of them.

This one company calls up and says this is not sales call but I'd like to ask you a few questions, so they ask their questions and a few minutes later the phone rings again with a company offering you new windows as you'd answered you might consider changing them in the previous call. What a nuisance!!! I tell them I'm not interested in changing my windows right this moment I would change them when I felt I needed to which was not anytime soon. Then they insist and tell you all sorts, twisting your arm into changing your windows. I'm having none of it anymore, when these people call I'll tell them straight.

There was this one call saying that our telephone number had won a free phone from the 3 network. Blah blah, so I'm thinking a free phone yeah but what's the catch a 12-18 month contract? So I ask him, can u get the phone on Pay as You Go he says YES the choice is yours you can get it on contract or pay as you go. So I say I'd like to have it in pay as you go, he says ok ma'am. Then he asks if I currently have a phone, I say yes but I don't use it much, he asks how much I spend a month, I tell him £10-£20 a month and I get some free calls and free text, so he tells me I can get more with this contract he's offering. I tell him I don't want a contract I want pay as you go, I don't want to be tied as I don't use it much to make calls just make text, and he ends up terminating the call. Hehe. Free phone my ass, free phone with a contract...that's what!

There was one call today said there were calling for telecommunications company, I immediately said I'm not interested and they say "This is not a sales call ma'am"....Yeah right, it clearly is!

So lately, I just answer, politely (rudely more like) decline their offer and just put the phone down on them. Simple.