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    Tuesday 29 September 2009

    Gotten a bad scare

    Today received a call suddenly without any warning from someone. She is a sales person who donno my name but told me hers. I still shiver and trying to get over the after-shock. Guessed I coped quite well throughout but I just wished that no matter how badly a sales person want to sell, please don't be so scary. She is good in talking, persuasive and very very aggressive.

    Usually I am not in such a foul mood but I just can't help it after being disturbed like that. Told her No no no. I am not interested. Pls find someone else but she still ask where I stay, she can come over immediately. Wow......power sales woman. I just want to share my experience here. Personally I don't like aggressive sales person. I am not pointing at this particular one but she just reminds me of so many annoying sales person. They are so annoying and noisy that at first got interest but after their """""" sound I got so feed up. A lot of my friends see sales person will suddenly turn deaf, blind or busy with stuff.

    I like a shop keeper. I went into a shop by my own will and choice. I ask for assistance and clarification by my own too. Not being hunt down, forced upon. I am not sure will that sales person ever see this or not or she will ever know this is me as she never even see me b4. She got my hp from my fren as my fren too scare and passed it over to me. I told my fren times and again. I DO NOT WANT TO BUY ANYTHING. I am not interested. But my fren can't fight over her empowering aggressiveness gave up threw my number to her and ran off. How nice. She is my fren's ex-classmate. But I am not buying useless stuff just to give people face.

    Let me recall....that sales person is so scary. You can literally feel her pressuring power through the phone. She is friendly, polite and all that. Suddenly she start telling about how she used to so fat and how she lost so much weight. And she heard that I joined or used a lot of slimming program ( also = I am a fat sheep to target?? ) Eh...But.....Hello? I am very happy with my weight and I told my fren to tell her so. And I NEVER join any slimming program other than the one set up by me, myself by following some guidelines. Like exercise more, don't eat tit bits, don't drink soft drink, no eating after 9pm, sleep early that sort of thing.

    Of course I am interested in slimming related stuff provided it is FREE or EFFECTIVE. Not those just I have to pay and DON'T KNOW the exact effect and all based on whatever crap the sales person tells me. I Don't believe anything sales person SAY. They are sales person. They sell. I believe people who used it and not selling. So unless they so kind to proved samples for me to try I have no interest in it at all. Trust me none of them will tell you how much it cost unless your wallet is hanging out already. I have seen time and again how people cursing sales person for conning them. But sales person will reply :" results vary between individuals as I have told you so in the beginning and stated on our product. "It also means that: Never work? I guess it is just bad luck for you. It REALLY works for a lot of other people.

    I don't know why still so many people got con by sales person. None of the so called supplement works unless you eat less and exercise more ( of which they will also specify along with their product. In order for full effectiveness pls eat this this amount and do such exercise..etc etc). I ask the sales person is there any change in your diet before and after and throughout she start her program. She said yes, eat less...etc etc.. so Means with or without her supplement you will still loose weight. You eat less than what you used to. Anyway, I lazy to go into more details about those health or slimming products either by supplement or what so ever. If selling anything other than the miracle slimming product I think I will not be so sarcastic. If you sell pots, pans, clothing, detergent, make up maybe I will have a look. Slimming?? Haha.. no thanks.

    The only way to slimming is a good healthy diet and exercise. No secret to being slim at all. Unless you want to faster way, go find a qualified doctor for that. They are more trust-able than sales person. And their price is the same. My cousins who were fat since young went for proper diet program and medication and supplement by doctors. They slim down slowly and beautifully.

    So Thanks and No thanks scary sales person. I do understand in times of bad economic ppl really need to push to sell. But even after telling no interest to buy directly and right away. I think should not push so hard. It give ppl a very distasteful feeling. I prefer normal polite ones. If I want I will look and sure buy. If I don't want, please don't force. I will stand firm and say NO. Oh ya...the credit cards stalls too. Scary. Say got credit card already. No need. Then they will keep ask you which bank you use like 5 time or so. I am wondering so telling them about which bank I use, so? You can show that your bank is providing better privilege than mine. So? That one is all said by Sales person. Not bank.

    My friend who is new to this sort of things got con a few times already. The sales person guarantee him 101% no charges. Sign up for a credit card for free 1 year. You don't use then never activate so no fuss no worry. Just sign your name here, thank you. Guess what? My fren later find he never need it at all and after 1 month he received a bill from bank charging him card fee. He called the agent, agent say : Ai yah......bank change policy lah. I also donno ah.... Then ...........................................................................

    Seldom meet sales person that I like. Very rare.

    1 comment:

    kaioucat said...

    Urgh..couldn't agree with u more, Tiff. Wait till u start working. It'll be WORSE then. I have given up trying to be polite with these ppl. I WILL be polite for the 1st and 2nd "No". By the 3rd, if they still won't shut up and leave me alone, I'm just gonna treat them like they "don't have mothers give birth to" (direct translate from cantonese... kakakaka!!!).

    Once I got misled by a credit card agent. I just needed one card, he told me to sign up for 2, since they're free of annual charges. Same like ur friend's case... sign here sign there. In the end I found out I signed for one extra service from the bank (Citibank) which I didnt need at all, and were not told a single word about when I signed those agreements. It had a non-refundable annual fee. Well, it's really my fault too, since I didn't read the agreement properly before signing. But they were like 10 pages of small prints. How to read on the spot? And really, being new to these things (I just started working at the time), I didn't know those ppl were capable of such deeds.

    Equally worse experience. Insurance agent. I got pulled into one of those roadshow booths (Prudential). The guy told me 2 mins only. I was very sure i didnt wanna buy any. But wanting to be polite, i thought "what's 2 mins, right?". So I stayed. BIG MISTAKE. I ended up sitting at the booth for 2 hrs. The salesman was seriously persistent. Well, i was too. So end up? I lost my patience, told him "We both wasted 2 hours already, can i go home now?" It was a working day, i was on my way home for dinner. I sat there at the booth from 7pm to 9pm.

    If u read or attend courses about sales, u'll learn all sorts of common sales tactic they use. They ALL sound deceptive to me. Eg. male sales ppl will tackle the ladies and vice versa. And they have like a list of "clever" responses to common reject excuses given by potential customers, which usually psycho the customers to the corner without any more excuses to give, and then finally give in.

    Seriously, they're like legal conmen, you know?