If you are carrying a mobile, you might have already experienced the
annoying calls from the telemarketers. If you are a credit card user or
if you have taken a loan, then the number of calls you receive will
increase and sometimes you will become mad. Some of the telemarketers
even don’t ask if it is the correct time to call and go on explaining
about the product they are selling. If you say “not interested,” still
they ask you to listen what they are telling, which is really annoying.
Sometimes, we even get repeated calls though we asked them not to call
again.
I have two friends who are really good at making fun out of these
calls. They enjoy those calls with funny answers to their questions and
at the end of the call, the telemarketer will feel that their sales
pitching is a waste of time.
One of my colleagues, Ashok, is one of those two guys. We cry
out of laugh listening to the conversation he will have with these
telemarketers. Recently, a guy called offering personal loan and Ashok
put him into conversation for half an hour asking for 1 lakh loan. The
guy explained everything without asking about the Ashok’s profession,
salary, and savings. He explained all the document requirements, monthly
EMI, etc. and at the end he asked how much salary Ashok is drawing.
Ashok told him that he is drawing around Rs. 4000 after all cuttings
(just to make himself not eligible to apply for the 1 lakh loan). The
loan guy hanged up the phone and eventually disconnected listening to
the salary figure. He occasionally records the conversation in his Nokia
mobile, which has the call recording facility
For your information, Ashok is a young guy who is just recently married and is a medical transcriptionist.
Recently, a lady called Ashok from Country Club pitching for
membership sale, which is priced at Rs. 1.5 lac, which only high-income
people can afford. I don’t know how these people gather the mobile
numbers. They should get the phone number of high-income group and not
every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Telemarketers should politely ask about the
profession first to make sure that they are pitching the right person to
whom they can sell the product. If they find that the customer is not
worth of pitching, they should delete the number, so that another
associate would not waste calling the same customer again. The same lady
called him two times and the conversation was hilarious. Below are
those two conversations. Listen and enjoy!
Call #1: Ashok tells the telemarketing lady that he
owns a rice mill and has two grown children. He even tries to sell rice
to the lady. At the end, he asks the lady to call when he is not busy in
the shop and when the lady asks how she will know that he is not busy,
Ashok tells her to call to know if he is busy or not. She says okay.
Listen to the hilarious conversation.
Call #2: The same lady calls again. This times the
lady offers a discount and asks in which profession Ashok is. He tells
her that he runs cycle puncture shop. The lady asks whether he can
afford to buy a membership at Rs. 36,000. He says that he is interested
and he can sell the land he owns to buy the membership. At the end, he
tell the lady that he will ask his wife and let her know because if he
is not taking her permission, she will yell at him. Enjoy the funny
definitions he has given to club, family entertainment, massage parlor,
and restaurant & bar.
Call #3 & #4: This is a telemarketer call
pitching for insurance product. He tells the lady that he is a roadside
balloon vendor. As soon as he tells that he sells balloons, the lady
says “Thank you…have a nice day” and tries to cut the phone. He tries
to continue the call…but she tells that she will call again with full
details. Her senior calls and carries on the conversation. Again, he
tells that he sells balloons and asks about the benefits of taking an
LIC policy. He tells her that he is investing the money in Chits and
asks her to tell the benefits he gets if he invests in LIC. She thinks
that he is really a balloon vendor, so tells him to invest in chits and
cuts the phone deciding that she can’t sell the product to him at any
cost. Enjoy the conversation in two clips.
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