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Congrats, You've Won!
Yesterday afternoon while sleeping I received a call from an Indian lady that went like this:
"Strongly-accented" Indian Lady (SAIL): Good afternoon, is this Ms xxxxx?
Me: Yeah?
SAIL: Hi, I'm So-and-so, do you remember you filled out a lucky draw coupon some time ago?
Me:*thinks* Oh man, not one of those "You've won!" calls again! *rolls eyes*
Me: No, I don't remember.
SAIL (sounding flustered): Oh, erm, it's a few months back, it's okay if you don't remember, I'll just like to verify your details. Your name is xxxxxxxx? Your IC number is xxxxxxx? And you're currently residing in xxxxxxxxx? Are the details correct?
Me: Yeah, so?
SAIL: Oh, that's great, Ms xxxxx. Now I'll just like to check with you, do you own any credit cards?
Me: *thinks* Ahhhh, finally gotten to the point of the whole phone call.
Me: *curtly* No.
SAIL: *slight pause* Oh. Erm, I'm just trying to help your complete your coupon cos you have left it incomplete. Erm, yeah, so the grand draw will be held in February and I hope you'll win. Thanks, Ms xxxxx, bye!
Me: *hang up and thinks* Yeah, right. I didn't complete the sh!t coupon. Like any normal lucky draw coupon will ask the question "Do you own any credit cards?" -___-||| What, no credit cards, so it means a person is not eligible for the lucky draw?
Now I really, really hate this kind of lucky draws/contests phone calls. They invariably start out telling me about the whatever coupon I had filled out eons ago (And I seldom do so because I'm LAZY), start verifying my details so as to try to reassure me that I'd really filled out the coupon before. THEN, the main purpose of the call is broached. It's either:
1) "Do you own any credit cards?" (Hello, Why the hell does my owning or not owning of credit cards concern them in the first place?)
2) "Congratulations, you've won!" (Won what? Funny how they never state clearly and always try to bluff their way through when questioned.) "You'll need to come down to our office for details on collecting the price!" (Greeeeeat, and they're always some obscure company that I've never heard of before in my life.)
So what's the solution for getting them off the phone?
For situation 1, it's very simple. Just say "No, I don't own any credit cards." and they'll end the call so fast that you'd think the phone receiver had suddenly started smoking in their hand.
Situation 2 is a bit more difficult. Usually those callers are those super, duper, ultra thick-skinned people who refuses to put down the phone despite your increasingly exasperated repeats of the sentence "Sorry, not interested!" For those callers who really don't get the meaning of "sorry, not interested", my friend recommended just putting down the phone in the midst of their sales pitch. And switch off the handphone for a few hours to prevent them from calling back.
This kind of calls are a waste of time, don't you think so? I'll really rather spend it on something more worthwhile like, er, I don't know, maybe slacking or daydreaming? ;p
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