Worse than Telemarketers >_<

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Okay one of the things that has always annoyed me is when you're trying to do your shopping or whatever, and those damn salesmen/saleswomen are in the middle of the shopping centre trying to sell you hair straighteners etc.

I have worked in the same shopping centre for 3 years now and it is really annoying. Every day I go out for lunch and there right there saying:

"Excuse me miss, can I ask you a question?"

I'm like:

"No thanks. I have things to do."

I used to be nice about saying no to them, but because I get it every day, it's hard to keep it up. I usually try to avoid eye contact but they still seem to jump out in front of you with whatever product they're trying to sell.

I think I'd prefer telemarketers any day. At least you can just hang up on them. XD

Discuss please!

 
Awwww theres some of those dudes trying to sell people a broadband pckage in Asda, they ask me eveytime, and everytime IM like im already WITH you guys, leave me alone

They do my head in, telemarketers, those asda dudes but the guys that knock on your door are the worst, unless they catch me off guard I dont answer anymore
 
I just hang up. Why even bother with a witty response? They're not worth it.

Whenever I get a call like that, I just hang up. They start into their routine and I just close my cell. Army recruiter, telemarketer, blood drive people... doesn't matter. Fuck 'em all.
 
Im the same, i just hang up straight away. I remember my mate gettin a call from a company who said that he could get a cheap porch for the place he was living in..yeah..cept he lived three floors up in a block of flats.
I notice we get a lot of these calls through the day, im at work so i dont have to deal with them, its a pain in the arse when you get up to answer the phone and you have some prick you dont know on the other end of the line trying to flog off double glazing or whatever.
 
I've put them on hold before with music and let them hang up. :awesome:

I just ignore the people in shopping centres, I'm not old enough to start buying stuff so I have no interest in what they say, and even if I did, I'd approach them if I was interested not the other way around.
 
I always feel bad for ignoring these people.. they're just doing their job after all. But yeah, it is annoying being pounced on, as Ryan said if you were interested in something then YOU would go to THEM.

The last time I got pounced was in a Boots in Edinburgh, this guy in a tux came up to me and said 'Excuse me, would you like to smell something amazing?' and I was like 'Huh?', the poor guy was so nervous xD, and then he started rambling on about this new perfume by 'Ralph... Ralph... Oh I always forget this *nervous laughter*' and I said '...Lauren...?' and he was like 'YES! I think all these fumes are going to my head'. And anyway, he was trying to sell me this perfume which was like £50 for a puny little squirt, so I was like 'No thankyou', but I tried to be nice about it and smile and stuff because he was so nervous and looked all disappointed. >_> I hate it though when you say 'no' and then they're like 'Why not?' :gasp: Does it matter?! Because I don't want it. -__-

Ohhh and one thing I hate about going to Edinburgh is all of the people in the street who approach you, like the weirdo monks trying to get money off you and stuff. I always try to swerve out of their way but I always get stopped by at least one person trying to get me to sign up for something. There are millions of them though, one will stop me and ask my age and I'll say 17, and then they say 'Oh okay never mind' because you have to be 18 for these things, and then you get stopped by ANOTHER. It's tedious -_-
 
I'd say the people who hand out leaflets are worse than telemarketers, Middlesborough town is FULL of them, so every time I go there, I end up getting approached by at least one of them -__-

I've had a Telemarketer keep ringing my mobile even after I've answered and hung up on them, so I've found that they're more persistent than the leaflet people, who generally bugger off after you tell them you're not interested.
 
A friend of mine loves telemarketers. One asked him how often he went grocery shopping a week and he said that he went a lot less now. He then made up this story about how he had this dog and he used to go every day to get it fresh meat and that it got hit by a car and died three weeks ago and that he was heartbroken and he pretended to cry and the telemarketer hung up.
Whenever I talk to them they make statements and never ask questions so there's an awkard pause of a couple of seconds before I say no thank you and hang up.
 
I go easy on telemarketers, I try my best not to be too rude to them unless they are really annoyingly persistent, at the end of the day they are just doing their job.

With sales people in shopping malls I generally just say "no thank you" and I keep walking; except this one time when I was just finishing a Snickers bar and someone tried to hand me a pamphlet, so I took the pamphlet and gave them the wrapper.

I remember when I was like 15 I had to hand out pamphlets for my friends mum's store and I actually had a fair bit of fun with it surprisingly. What I used to do was offer people a pamphlet and if they didn't reach out to grab it I would shove it right up close to their chest so they pretty much had to take it, nine times out of ten people would take it xD
 
Clementine said:
Ohhh and one thing I hate about going to Edinburgh is all of the people in the street who approach you, like the weirdo monks trying to get money off you and stuff. I always try to swerve out of their way but I always get stopped by at least one person trying to get me to sign up for something. There are millions of them though, one will stop me and ask my age and I'll say 17, and then they say 'Oh okay never mind' because you have to be 18 for these things, and then you get stopped by ANOTHER. It's tedious -_-
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That guy was a damn mugger! And a liar, he should be ashamed of himself.

The way to avoid people like that is to just take out your phone and make it look like you're texting someone, or pretend to be changing songs on your mp3 player. Or you look in a shop window in the opposite direction as you walk past; anything to prevent from making eye contact with them.
If it's ever those people who want you to donate, I always tell them I'm 17 so I can't give them anything. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep up that lie though. D:
 
Bah, I hate people bothering me to sell shit. I can either get rid of them two ways..

Say I'm with my friend (Lets say Scarlet, this happened a few weeks ago) and a few other friends, we're walking through the mall and one of those guys tries to talk to us. I just start talking really loudly to my friend (almost to myself actually) and I start like speed walking, almost running, away.

If I'm by myself I obviously can't do that or else I just look like a lunatic. But generally if I'm by myself they make eye contact with me (which is very bad! eye contact = oh noes, I've been spotted run). In that case they start talking to me so I just have to be overly, overly friendly (even friendlier than they pretend to be) and eventually they run out of things to say and I tell them to have a good day and walk away. ^^;

Telemarketers are easy to handle, just hang up. x_X
 
lol, I love that episode of Seinfeld.

On our caller ID it usually comes up for whatever place it is that's calling us, and when it's someone that we think is just asking for money or surveys, me or my sister had always answered the phone and told them we were Papa John's Pizza place.

It adds a bit of humor to it, and they usually just say sorry and hang up right away and take us off their calling list.
 
I was actually talking to my friend at work yesterday just after a telemarketer called us. <_<

She told me that they had a Japanese student staying with them once who didn't speak very good english at all.

I can't remember exactly how it happened but they put the Japanese student onto the phone one day when a telemarketer called.

Apparently she just kept saying, 'I don't understand' to the telemarketer.

It was cruel of them to use her like that but at the same time the guy on the other end got a taste of his own medicine. >_<
 
Those people in the mall here who try to sell you things in the booth are so persistent. I always feel bad when I don't buy anything from them. I usually make my husband walk between me and the salespeople just because he can say "No" much better then I can. The last time I had to say No,we walked away with one of those fingernail kits,lotion, and some dead sea salt.

As far as telemarketers go,I've never really had to deal with them. Although I have gotten an automated call asking me to press a certain number if I'd like to renew the warranty on my car that I don't have. Those are easy to hang up on.
 
I've taken to amusing myself to no end by making up ridiculous stories and personal profiles; there was one instance where we were stopped in the street and asked to take part in a survey and one of the guys started rambling on about being a mormon and being offended by such outlandish and forward behaviour. The same guy was stopped in Glasgow and asked to join some ridiculous religious cult and he declined due to a prior engagement regarding a lost pair of space boots (one of those "had to be there" moments). I now follow that example.

There was one telemarketer who phoned actually, they were from Glasgow Airport and claimed my dad filled in a survey last time he was there (he did NO such thing but they were adamant about lying), so I told them that it was impossible because he'd been dead for 7 years. The phone was promptly slammed down on their end, I was creased. :wacky:
 
I like to say random shit too them to freak them out. Or fuck around with them, do racist accents and shit. :awesome:

But that's with telemarketers. I hate themmmmmmmmm so much. I'm just trying to chill and fapfapfap or something then the phone rings and I'm like 'Augh who could this be?' It has to be a damn telemarketer. -__-

If people ask me for shit at the shops and stuff, I just ignore them or say 'No I'm okay.' >.>
 
I absolutely hate telemarketers. Everytime i get a phone call and i dont get an answer right away, i hang up. If they happen to get threw, i just tell them to take me off there list. Now there everywhere. They come to shopping malls and even call me on my cell phone from time to time.
 
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