Monday, November 15, 2004
i was having a great day until...
a few months ago i took this course. i met this guy in the course, who later contacted me to promote his new business of telephone/internet/communications marketing. i think his end goal in taking the course was to quickly and slyly obtain an instant client base, but i can't prove that. well, not originally when he contacted me, it was to "just catch up." the meeting after about 5 minutes turned into a recruitment opportunity for him. basically, trying to get me to sign on as a company employee to promote and push this "new" product onto friends and family. in a nutshell, i was to pay $500 into the company and then receive all the training and supplies to begin recruiting people on my own. it is a pyramid sales scheme. i was so turned off from the whole sales pitch, and after was left with a real disgusted feeling. i felt as if i was tricked into meeting the guy in the first place.
well this afternoon, i was coming home from the city on the ferry. i was having an enjoyable day, being my day off. my mobile phone rang. i answered, and it was this guy calling. i could barely hear him, because of a poor connection (go figure), but already my heckles were up. "i am calling to ask you, if you would like to become a customer of our product. i know you were not interested in becoming a client, when we last spoke, but i thought you would like to try out the product..." my reply was "no thank you." i ended up having to say no several times, when it dawned on me- in our original meeting, he told me he didn't care how many "no's" he got out of a person he was trying to sell to, eventually he would wear the person down until they said "yes." well i was not going to give into those tactics. after about the tenth time of refusing, i ended simply hanging up on him. maybe it was rude of me, but fuck him, i do not need to be bothered by that sort of shit. and now, i have come home to vent. my life is too precious to allow any extra time for hassles like that.
it makes me wonder, how many other people from that course has he pestered and pushed into buying into the communications product he is peddling. the irony of the whole thing, is his communication skills totally sucked! there was only output, with no room for input.
so with all this said, i will go back to having the rest of my day be wonderful.
well this afternoon, i was coming home from the city on the ferry. i was having an enjoyable day, being my day off. my mobile phone rang. i answered, and it was this guy calling. i could barely hear him, because of a poor connection (go figure), but already my heckles were up. "i am calling to ask you, if you would like to become a customer of our product. i know you were not interested in becoming a client, when we last spoke, but i thought you would like to try out the product..." my reply was "no thank you." i ended up having to say no several times, when it dawned on me- in our original meeting, he told me he didn't care how many "no's" he got out of a person he was trying to sell to, eventually he would wear the person down until they said "yes." well i was not going to give into those tactics. after about the tenth time of refusing, i ended simply hanging up on him. maybe it was rude of me, but fuck him, i do not need to be bothered by that sort of shit. and now, i have come home to vent. my life is too precious to allow any extra time for hassles like that.
it makes me wonder, how many other people from that course has he pestered and pushed into buying into the communications product he is peddling. the irony of the whole thing, is his communication skills totally sucked! there was only output, with no room for input.
so with all this said, i will go back to having the rest of my day be wonderful.
