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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 05:59:16 pm

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 05:59:16 pm

My phone rings and foreign person is on other end .The conversation goes:

Caller :Hello this is Shareen calling you from London about T mobile.

Me : Again?

Caller :Hello this is Shareen calling you from London about T mobile.

Me : Again?

Caller :Hello this is Shareen calling you from London about T mobile.

Me : Again?

Caller :Hello this is Shareen  then hangs up on me.

My challenge to you all is can you get the next foreign person who tries to sell you something over the phone to repeat themselves more than 3 times.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: maidofmoney on April 21, 2006, 08:48:59 pm

Thats a good one, I'm going to try it as i have a sales call every day

without fail.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 09:48:45 pm

Funny, except check your next bill.   You will have been charged for the call.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 10:08:33 pm

How do you work out I will be charged for a call they made to me?

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 10:10:37 pm

The same thing happened to me, they have a way of reversing charges.  I complained to Carphone Warehouse and they refunded it and chased up the caller who was in Honk Kong or somewhere.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 10:12:38 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter

Honk Kong

Can't do that to me. I don't get a bill. I pay a certain amount to Telewest every month for unlimited calls.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 10:13:22 pm

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 10:14:14 pm

I've lost count of how many times I've seen people write Honk Kong.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 10:15:03 pm

OK, how many roughly?

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 10:16:47 pm

maybe 6.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 10:18:27 pm

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 10:19:31 pm

I was only trying to make you feel better about it.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 10:20:56 pm

Anyway, might have been Macau

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 21, 2006, 10:23:01 pm

The population of Macau is 398,000

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: on April 21, 2006, 10:36:28 pm

I'll make a note of that

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: kermie on April 21, 2006, 10:49:59 pm

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: smurfboy on April 21, 2006, 11:41:14 pm

That's more than Nottingham but less than Sheffield.

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: oldspice on April 22, 2006, 09:57:13 am

I hate these cold calls and always try to get some fun out of them. Sometimes it involves pretending to be a deaf old lady or someone very stupid and sometimes I put the phone down and sing something mad from ten feet away (Viva Espana or Tulips from Amsterdam work well). 

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: lorri on April 23, 2006, 04:12:27 pm

what anoys me the most about these calls is that the person on the other end has a strong indian or similar accent, can speak no English  except the script they are reading from but still claim their name is something like Harry or David

Title: Phone challenge......
Post by: loulou on April 23, 2006, 09:42:55 pm

Sometimes I tell them I will not continue the conversation until they tell me their real name.