How would you react to this aggressive sales tactic?

This guy might have been able to save you money. You didn’t talk to him very professionally. Are you a millennial?
 
Loiosh said:
That's psychotic.

He looked you up.

He wasn't looking to sell you furniture, he wants your head in his freezer.
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What happens is that if you post your personal information on line on your web site they have these web crawler spider things that pull all the fields (name, email, phone, postal code, business type) and compile that info into marketing sell sheets.

You want the info for 10 CEO's within X kilometres of your location, then pay X.
 
MikeMcMann said:
I received an unsolicited piece of mail from a furniture company a week back and in it the sales person says "I have set aside next Tuesday at 10am to speak to you about our offerings and will be calling you to discuss".

I never paid attention to it as I had never met or talked to this sales, rep nor their company and was not looking for office furniture.

Anyway I forget it about and on Tuesday this week our office secretary comes and interrupts us in an internal meeting telling me that my 10am Call that I had scheduled is on hold. I have no recollection of setting up a call but do not want to leave someone hanging if I did so I excuse myself. When i take the call it is the furniture guy. Flustered I immediately tell him I do not appreciate this tactic and he should not have told the secretary I had scheduled this call when I did not. I state I find this approach very unprofessional and do not appreciate it.

He immediately gets defensive and states he notified me he would be calling and at this time and if I did not want to speak then I should have contacted him back and let him know.

I told him I am under no obligation to reply in any manner to any of the unsolicited mail, emails or calls I get and that there should be no assumption that anyone needs to call you back to tell you they are not interested. I told him his approach was presumptive and obnoxious.

He then said 'he respects my opinion but I am wrong' and then hung up.


What say you sherbro's? Is this type of sales approach acceptable? I literally get dozens of unsolicited contacts a week. Should they all take this tact it cold require me spending hours a week contacting them to say I am not interested and to cancel the expected call.

I was going to fill the phone receiver with upper cuts had he not hung up on me.
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Either fill his lame shop with uppercuts or call him and say you're ready to hear about the great deals he can offer, then fap to BBW porn while carrying a convo and turn the sound up enough so he car hear.
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Send him a chair with the legs cut off. He'll get the message.
 
MikeMcMann said:
I received an unsolicited piece of mail from a furniture company a week back and in it the sales person says "I have set aside next Tuesday at 10am to speak to you about our offerings and will be calling you to discuss".

I never paid attention to it as I had never met or talked to this sales, rep nor their company and was not looking for office furniture.

Anyway I forget it about and on Tuesday this week our office secretary comes and interrupts us in an internal meeting telling me that my 10am Call that I had scheduled is on hold. I have no recollection of setting up a call but do not want to leave someone hanging if I did so I excuse myself. When i take the call it is the furniture guy. Flustered I immediately tell him I do not appreciate this tactic and he should not have told the secretary I had scheduled this call when I did not. I state I find this approach very unprofessional and do not appreciate it.

He immediately gets defensive and states he notified me he would be calling and at this time and if I did not want to speak then I should have contacted him back and let him know.

I told him I am under no obligation to reply in any manner to any of the unsolicited mail, emails or calls I get and that there should be no assumption that anyone needs to call you back to tell you they are not interested. I told him his approach was presumptive and obnoxious.

He then said 'he respects my opinion but I am wrong' and then hung up.


What say you sherbro's? Is this type of sales approach acceptable? I literally get dozens of unsolicited contacts a week. Should they all take this tact it cold require me spending hours a week contacting them to say I am not interested and to cancel the expected call.

I was going to fill the phone receiver with upper cuts had he not hung up on me.
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All sales tactics are a form of manipulation. I have no respect whatsoever for the entire profession. I treat them just how they deserve to be treated-- with distrust and mild contempt.
 
franklinstower said:
All sales tactics are a form of manipulation. I have no respect whatsoever for the entire profession. I treat them just how they deserve to be treated-- with distrust and mild contempt.
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I completely understand you...salesmen are trash. Thats why my associates and I at "X brand furniture" consider ourselves assistants, merely assisting you to make the decision thats best for you. We dont even get a commission....we're just here to help. You're the boss....and at the end of the day doesnt the boss deserve an office chair commensurate with his responsibility?
 
MikeMcMann said:
I received an unsolicited piece of mail from a furniture company a week back and in it the sales person says "I have set aside next Tuesday at 10am to speak to you about our offerings and will be calling you to discuss".

I never paid attention to it as I had never met or talked to this sales, rep nor their company and was not looking for office furniture.

Anyway I forget it about and on Tuesday this week our office secretary comes and interrupts us in an internal meeting telling me that my 10am Call that I had scheduled is on hold. I have no recollection of setting up a call but do not want to leave someone hanging if I did so I excuse myself. When i take the call it is the furniture guy. Flustered I immediately tell him I do not appreciate this tactic and he should not have told the secretary I had scheduled this call when I did not. I state I find this approach very unprofessional and do not appreciate it.

He immediately gets defensive and states he notified me he would be calling and at this time and if I did not want to speak then I should have contacted him back and let him know.

I told him I am under no obligation to reply in any manner to any of the unsolicited mail, emails or calls I get and that there should be no assumption that anyone needs to call you back to tell you they are not interested. I told him his approach was presumptive and obnoxious.

He then said 'he respects my opinion but I am wrong' and then hung up.


What say you sherbro's? Is this type of sales approach acceptable? I literally get dozens of unsolicited contacts a week. Should they all take this tact it cold require me spending hours a week contacting them to say I am not interested and to cancel the expected call.

I was going to fill the phone receiver with upper cuts had he not hung up on me.
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Bang his wife and or girlfriend on one of his couches.

What's his number ?? We should ruin his life.



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I would have listened to his pitch.
A dude with that kind of attitude must have something to offer.
And I do appreciate the balls.
Might be worth it. You can still say no after.
 
MikeMcMann said:
I received an unsolicited piece of mail from a furniture company a week back and in it the sales person says "I have set aside next Tuesday at 10am to speak to you about our offerings and will be calling you to discuss".

I never paid attention to it as I had never met or talked to this sales, rep nor their company and was not looking for office furniture.

Anyway I forget it about and on Tuesday this week our office secretary comes and interrupts us in an internal meeting telling me that my 10am Call that I had scheduled is on hold. I have no recollection of setting up a call but do not want to leave someone hanging if I did so I excuse myself. When i take the call it is the furniture guy. Flustered I immediately tell him I do not appreciate this tactic and he should not have told the secretary I had scheduled this call when I did not. I state I find this approach very unprofessional and do not appreciate it.

He immediately gets defensive and states he notified me he would be calling and at this time and if I did not want to speak then I should have contacted him back and let him know.

I told him I am under no obligation to reply in any manner to any of the unsolicited mail, emails or calls I get and that there should be no assumption that anyone needs to call you back to tell you they are not interested. I told him his approach was presumptive and obnoxious.

He then said 'he respects my opinion but I am wrong' and then hung up.


What say you sherbro's? Is this type of sales approach acceptable? I literally get dozens of unsolicited contacts a week. Should they all take this tact it cold require me spending hours a week contacting them to say I am not interested and to cancel the expected call.

I was going to fill the phone receiver with upper cuts had he not hung up on me.
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Call the management. Tell them what happened.
Then make them listen to you fappit
 
Ts got triggered and cucked. Anger is never effective.

Good responses
You should have asked him to be put on hold while you finish something and never come back

Tell him no thank you and ask him to remove from your calling list.

Report him to better business bureau
 
At my former job (relationship manager at a corporate bank) at had to develop my own portfolio of clients from scratch so it meant that I had to cold-call CFOs.

Even if I worked for a respectable outfit, they always tried to have us adopt some ridiculous cheap sales tactics. Of the worst kind. Like when the assistant of said CFO screened you had to try to deflect, saying shit like "it is about something that needs to be discussed with him", or when the CFO told us that they were not interested, the pitch was some shitty line like " which is perfectly understandable at this point and we will discuss it at your office, say, Wednesday at 10am, I'll send you an email right now,ok ??".

Yeah that kind.

The funny part is that I was also responsible for structuring the loans, negotiating the covenants, I was supervising the whole credit analysis and these were big corporate clients to whom we had some pretty big exposures in the tens of millions.

All this to say it was part interesting, part cheap sales job.

I never ever resorted to these dispicable shit tactics and btw what got me deals was the opposite. Respect the assistant, tell her exactly what this is about, don't insist with the CFO, and when I met them I never tried to sell them the shit products that the bank wanted me to sell.

I rather used the time to learn as much about the business, ask a bunch of questions, etc.

And quite honestly it didn't work too bad for the 3 years I was there.

So IMHO, cheap sales tactics are SHIT in my experience, and I blame senior management for deciding to use them.

I still believe to this day that if you need cheap sales tactics to place your product then it means that your market is saturated and that you would be better off concentrating your energy developing something people need.
 
Dont waste time on the phone with these guys, just hang up and go about your day..
 
Sounds like a scam. Asking to speak to his boss would most likely result in him asking you to 'hold on', then the same dude picking back up a minute later trying to sound like a different dude.
 
Ah you played that poorly...should of scheduled a meeting with him..tell him your really interested in furnishing entire office...

Set it up on a Friday at 4:00 pm... call him an hour before Just to confirm it and get him properly setup... set it up for a nice restaurant about thirty minutes away from where you guys are located..tell him your finance rep will be there to sign the checks.


Then stand him the fuck up and laugh your ass off when he calls you all pissed.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
 
AGGAMEMNON66 said:
Sounds like a scam. Asking to speak to his boss would most likely result in him asking you to 'hold on', then the same dude picking back up a minute later trying to sound like a different dude.
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No, you don’t call him back, you find the phone number of someone much higher up, like a regional manager and talk to them.

His boss is likely some shill store manager that s fine with his approach and isn’t involved in high level meetings himself so wouldn’t get the problem.
 
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