aren vs. the telemarketer
Aren got a call the other day telling him, Good news! he had won a prize. I automatically said 'Scam! Hang up!'. Aren is more patient than me and listened to the whole spiel...
...but wasn't taken in by the scheme in the end. A little online research revealed that the 'prize' required Aren and his female partner (no same sex partners or single males allowed) to travel to deep surburbia to listen an hour and a half talk about timeshares before he could could claim the prize of a two night stay somewhere in North America, airfare not included. One assumes in you would have to stay in their crappy timeshares. Who are the fools keeping these idiots in business?
posted by revaren at 5.4.08
3 Comments:
Ron and I got talked into something like that many years ago - the prize wasn't a trip anywhere, but a dinner at a fancy downtown hotel. I guess it was in the impoverished years of parenting small children and even that sounded good. it was an awful evening ... the dinner was in a small windowless conference room, and each couple was at a separate little table with their own timeshare-seller, who talked up the timeshare idea throughout the dinner, followed by a slideshow. We snuck out before it was over, and nothing could ever entice me to listen to such a spiel again!
singne
You should get Nate's dad to tell you the story about when he and Arlene went to one of those condo weekends. It was in the Okanagan or something, and they had to sit through a 2-hour presentation in order to stay in a nice condo for the weekend. Apparently Allan was heckling the presenter or something. And then when we was accused of not giving the presentation proper attention in good faith, he started some kind of scene and tried to stomp out. But they somehow tried to keep him from leaving, and then he really lost it. Allan was accused of scaring the other condo people, to which he replied something like, "I'll take this whole f&#@-in room out!". You kind of have to hear him tell the story, it's pretty hilarious.
Well well life is always entertaining...I am a wary but polite listener...and usually firmly indicate my disinterest.
Apparently if you cave and actually attend as per Singne--you are in for a tense and persistent
hard sales pitch...
as for the comment about the why and how of it--they are always those folks too polite to hang up and get suckered into it or some of us who would like a special outing/event...for nothing...
bonnie/m
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