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From: [e-mail] (John Higdon)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Revenge on a telemarketer!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:16:50 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Captain Harris) writes:

>Last night, I was called by a salesman from MCI (second most obnoxious
>salespeople in the known universe, behind Time-Life Books).  I had
>absolutely no interest in switching to MCI, but I let him ramble.  MCI is
>famous for pitching their logic, and easily deflected my counter arguments.

Recently I found a counter argument that no MCI salesman can deflect.
An MCI droid called with an opening line that went something like, "We
are calling people in your area to let them know about some of the
great money-saving plans that MCI has."

I replied that I made many, many calls to southern California which
tweaked his interest immensely. But then I added, "Let me tell you what
I am paying now and you tell me if you can beat it." "Fair enough", he
replied. "It is $5.45 per hour", I told him, "can you beat that?"

He paused, hemmed and hawed a bit, and then said, "No, I can't beat
that rate." "Fine. Then we have nothing more to talk about, do we? You
have a nice evening." Click.
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