I am completely amazed that people actually listen to these idiots that call 12 times a day to get me to buy a dumb auto warranty.
I still have a landline phone. Yeah, I know- I know. It's very cheap but I barely use it. I mainly have it so family can get ahold of me in the middle of the night in an emergency when my cell phone is on Do not Disturb.
I have voice mail set up on it and I never answer the phone when it rings. Anyone that needs me texts or calls my cell. My voice mail converts any messages to a text and sends it to my cell phone.
But I've noticed that I never get an auto warranty call from the same number twice. Of course they are always disguising their numbers so it appears to come from Clover, SC or AIken, SC or somewhere like that. The numbers are never the same, but it's obviously from the same folks.
So last week I answered and sure enough it was the same folks from yet another number. I played along and told them I had a 1977 Ford with 149,000 miles on it. I barely could understand the rep because of her broken English but she said they wouldn't cover a car that old and asked me if I had any other cars. She wanted a credit card number pretty quickly. That made the call even more ludicrous.
I told her that I didn't understand because she had started the phone call telling me that that my warranty was about to expire. So I told her that she clearly knew what type cars I had so I asked which car she was talking about. She then said she preferred I tell her, then I lied and said I didn't have any other cars. I told her I was really worried about my 1977 Ford's warranty. She hung up on me.
It's incredible this stupid, dumb pitch works on human beings.
I still have a landline phone. Yeah, I know- I know. It's very cheap but I barely use it. I mainly have it so family can get ahold of me in the middle of the night in an emergency when my cell phone is on Do not Disturb.
I have voice mail set up on it and I never answer the phone when it rings. Anyone that needs me texts or calls my cell. My voice mail converts any messages to a text and sends it to my cell phone.
But I've noticed that I never get an auto warranty call from the same number twice. Of course they are always disguising their numbers so it appears to come from Clover, SC or AIken, SC or somewhere like that. The numbers are never the same, but it's obviously from the same folks.
So last week I answered and sure enough it was the same folks from yet another number. I played along and told them I had a 1977 Ford with 149,000 miles on it. I barely could understand the rep because of her broken English but she said they wouldn't cover a car that old and asked me if I had any other cars. She wanted a credit card number pretty quickly. That made the call even more ludicrous.
I told her that I didn't understand because she had started the phone call telling me that that my warranty was about to expire. So I told her that she clearly knew what type cars I had so I asked which car she was talking about. She then said she preferred I tell her, then I lied and said I didn't have any other cars. I told her I was really worried about my 1977 Ford's warranty. She hung up on me.
It's incredible this stupid, dumb pitch works on human beings.