THINGS YOU REALLY DON'T NEED
From M. Christensen
First: GREAT web-site, I'm looking forward for someone to call,
even though it's been several years since I closed my company I
still get a lot of phone calls from sales people and other folks
with different offers and indispensable things. Only this time I
feel I had a good idea how to get out of it. I simply asked them to
call the head quarter and gave them the number for The Danish
Chamber for Commerce and I never heard from the same sales guys
again. It was an idea I got from a television program regarding
telephone (terror) sales guys about different non-existing phone
books.
But the story I'd like to tell was actually fun and the sales guy
and I both had a good laugh. I used to be the owner of a small
beauty parlour, and one morning I had the phone plugged in after a
customer (so others could call)
'I'd hard plugged the phone in, before the phone rings.
Hello, you're talking to XXX from the company New Holland. It's
about the combine harvester you've had inquired about???
Me: Ehh, combine harvester? Do you realize whom, you've called?
This is a beauty parlour! And ehh some of my customers may be
graters, - - - but combine harvester- - - .
Sales guy: (with pretty much laughter in the background)now
realizes that he's been scammed by his colleagues. Doesn't get
flurried, but asks me if I should be the owner of a small
farm?
At this point we're both laughing and I have to regrettably tell
him that the only agricultural thing I own is my balcony flower box
and that his combine harvester might be a little to big for that
purpose.
But it was a nice conversation; at least I've had fun telling it
again and again.
Regards