Telemarketers can be annoying – to say the least. They call at the most
inopportune times. All right, I’ll admit it; any time they call would be an
inopportune time for me!
Thanks to the Do Not Call list, these days, I don’t get a lot of these
calls. But before that welcomed list came about, telemarketing calls at my
house were frequent – sometimes two or three a day. I’m not sure why they
thought I’d be such an easy mark; I have never and will never buy anything from
a telemarketer.
As I said before, telemarketers are annoying and simply hanging up on
them wasn’t nearly satisfying enough. So, I usually tried to find ways to have
fun. There are many ways to do this. Since a telemarketer is also a salesman,
who drive me insane, they generally won’t shut up long enough to realize no one
is listening. I’d lay the phone down and go do something else – just to see how
long they would ramble on. I think the longest one went somewhere around twenty
minutes! Or, I would engage them in conversation as if I were interested, let
them tell me everything about their product – and then hang up. I had a few
other methods of dealing with them too and what I tried to do was get them to
hang up instead of me. That’s easier said than done.
One day, shortly after my wife and I bought our first house, a call
came in from someone selling windows. I told the guy he’d called just a few
days too late and that I’d just recently purchased fourteen windows. (I didn’t
tell him they came with the house). I thought that would get rid of the guy but
no such luck. He wanted to know what company I’d purchased my windows from and
if I was happy with them because, he said, his company’s windows were far
superior to any other. He added that I would still save money on heating and
cooling if I were to purchase fourteen more new windows from him!
“So, you want me to just throw away the other windows I bought?” I
asked.
Oddly enough, that’s exactly what he suggested! I hung up.
A few months ago, even though my number is on the Do Not Call list, I
got a call from... yep, someone wanting to sell me windows for my house. I thought
I’d try the same routine. This guy had a new solution for me. “We will buy your
old windows if you purchase new ones from our company and have us install
them.”
Really? I perked up!
The guy had already quoted me a price for my new windows so, I told him
I’d be willing to make such a deal – and gave him the price I would be charging
for my windows. Of course, my price was higher than his – by a lot. Hey, I’m
entitled to make a profit aren’t I?
The guy on the phone said that wasn’t the way it worked, that the
seller doesn’t get to set the price. Since when? I’m pretty sure that’s the way
the free market system works. And hadn’t he, the seller, set the price for the
windows he wanted me to buy? I said as much, to which he again replied that
wasn’t the way it worked.
“So, you’re telling me you get to set both prices? Hardly seems fair.”
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