Stories for Telephone sales

Supposedly those all go to Microsoft, but considering the number of them they must receive, I wonder if anyone bothers to look at them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Error_Reporting

The one where Windows checks to see if there's a solution to the problem? I've given up on that completely and disabled it recently. Now, if only I could do that at work too.

You need the anti-telemarketing script:

hxxp://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html

Replace the xx with tt to make the link work.


(hi Fiona!)

That is brilliant, Prof Yaffle

And welcome !!

I generally don't take home phone calls (because it's either a telemarketer, or they're calling for someone else (in which case if someone else is home they can answer, or the machine gets it)). I took one about a month ago though because I was in the kitchen toasting a sandwich and was killing time. It was the same spiel as yours.

After much discussion and trickery I had him admit that he wasn't actually getting errors from my computer and he hung up. Elated, I gave a slight fist pump and then turned around to see that most of the cheese had oozed out of my sandwiches, cooked onto the oven and what remained were less than enjoyable sandwiches.

I called that one a draw.

Peculiar: you would have thought that someone,somewhere, would be getting error messages from your oven...

I got another one of these calls today (I get them most days so that is not the point) from a person who said he was phoning on behalf of something called "consumercentric". He started immediately be reassuring me he was not selling anything: it was "market research". So I asked him how much he gets paid. He told me he is a volunteer. Well that was impressive and I asked if Consumercentric is a charity. He told me it is a group of companies who are interested in helping me to save money. So that was nice. He said he wanted to take few minutes of my time to ask me some questions but on enquiry he did admit the enterprise is not a charity, registered or otherwise. So I asked why he volunteered. His english was not great but it appears he did it for "immersion" and when I teased that out he is getting experience in market research. So it seemed to me that this is workfare by any other name and that is worse than usual, because most say they do get paid.

So I told him I do not work for nothing and neither should he: and I asked him how much his company intended to pay for my time, as I often do. He was very puzzled. When he got the idea he laughed. I repeated I do not work for nothing and in my opinion he should also ask for wages. He laughed again.

I do not think he had ever heard that the labourer is worthy of his hire....

I could not find his company but I did find lots of hits for "consumer centric": it is an idea whose time has come and this little gem was especially pleasing: it should really be in the "Things that Make you Laugh" thread, probably

http://consumercentricconsulting.com/

I absolutely adore this, in particular


They want you to work for them for nothing: but not just for a few minutes: they like long term abusive relationships, apparently



Edited by FionaK - 9/6/2012, 13:27

www.saynotocoldcalls.com/

Apparently you can sue them if you can find out who they are. In my experience that is not easy...but worth a try?