On the subject of 'selling'....I used to sell time-shares.
We used to phone loads of people up and pretend to be from a newly-established kitchen company. All we wanted, I would say, is to ask a few questions about their 'kitchen habits'... do you use a dishwasher, madam... how often do you use the toaster, madam... does madam make use of the potato peeler... etc etc and other pointless questions.
At the end, we would tell them we would enter them in a free prize draw to win a brand spanking new kitchen as a sign of our gratitude.
Then, about a month later, we would phone ALL of them up and say 'Remember us? You've won a free kitchen! Congratulations!'. All they had to do was come along one and choose what style of kitchen they wanted...
So of course, one night at some London hotel, loads of people would arrive having travelled from far and wide full of excitement (mainly the wives) at the prospect of getting their free dream-kitchen...
... only to find themselves locked in a room and made to watch a time-share video...
... and then be told that the only way they would get a free kitchen was if they spent money they didn't have on some time-share somewhere in Spain.
Also, the kitchen they would get could probably be purchased in a pound shop.
Notice how I use the words 'we' and 'us' in an effort to spread the guilt amongst my ex-employers and fellow workers....
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 14:07,
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We used to phone loads of people up and pretend to be from a newly-established kitchen company. All we wanted, I would say, is to ask a few questions about their 'kitchen habits'... do you use a dishwasher, madam... how often do you use the toaster, madam... does madam make use of the potato peeler... etc etc and other pointless questions.
At the end, we would tell them we would enter them in a free prize draw to win a brand spanking new kitchen as a sign of our gratitude.
Then, about a month later, we would phone ALL of them up and say 'Remember us? You've won a free kitchen! Congratulations!'. All they had to do was come along one and choose what style of kitchen they wanted...
So of course, one night at some London hotel, loads of people would arrive having travelled from far and wide full of excitement (mainly the wives) at the prospect of getting their free dream-kitchen...
... only to find themselves locked in a room and made to watch a time-share video...
... and then be told that the only way they would get a free kitchen was if they spent money they didn't have on some time-share somewhere in Spain.
Also, the kitchen they would get could probably be purchased in a pound shop.
Notice how I use the words 'we' and 'us' in an effort to spread the guilt amongst my ex-employers and fellow workers....
I believe that is known as either'sugging' or 'being a cranberry'.
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 19:08,
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