"Sales" Tactics

Great topic Michelle!
Since the advent of the do not call list in the US that has helped tremendously with the volume of phone calls I get, but still I get one occasionally. Usually I cut them off very quickly by interrupting their spill and saying I’m not interested in whatever you are selling and remove me from your call list. It’s not unusual to get hung up on. :roflmao: If they keep on talking, I just hang up.
Occasionally I will make a call myself to inquire about some product or service and there is nothing that is more of a turn off that some arrogant pushy salesperson.
Actually I don’t want to be approached unless I’m the one who initiates the contact.
NO I absolutely would not work for any company that promoted themselves by trickery or taking advantage of someone.

Here is my own quick little story. I used to work as a administrative assistant for a small business. The owner would sometimes purchase certain supplies from a company in California. Most of the time the salesperson was the one who would contact the owner by phone. Of course I was the one who answered the phone 95% of the time when he called. He would phone and ask for the owner by name and if he wasn’t available I would of course say, “I’m sorry but he isn’t available right now, may I take a message. This salesman…..(which is not the name I had for him) :sarcasm: would hang up on me just as soon as I said the owner wasn’t available and before I could get the rest of the sentence completed. Time after time he did this and of course after a few times I started being able to recognize his voice. So one day he phones………instead of my usual. I say to him, do you have a minute? He is taken aback and mumbles, I guess. I ask him, how long have you been doing sales by phone. He tells me several years. I said to him……..well it looks like by now that you would have learned some manners and have you ever considered that it might be to your benefit to not hang up on me. After all I AM the gate keeper and if you are nice to me, I’ll make it a lot easier for you to speak with the owner. Please remember this next time you call or perhaps the owner might not ever have time to speak with you again. lol He did not hang up on me again and and he said please and thank you from then on. :hattip:

Hi all (Gam)

so I take it you never got your money back on the six month guarantee?

How did they manage to explain that one away? Or did they just disappear?

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I totally agree with the bonus schemes being something that will at best be seen for what they have become, a way to purchase time to play casino games for real money.

That’s about all they are any more what with the play-through requirements and choice of games being restricted. I understand the need for all this and its not a terribly bad idea when used properly but most casinos, even some of the more reputable ones, have T&Cs which are very tough to realistically meet and I fear one day that’ll be used as ammo against current casinos by … oh I don’t know … Vegas?

Nah. They wouldn’t do that. Not some place that would run commercials like “it all stays here in Vegas”.

Everything is remembered on the net. That’s the first rule I learned. That’s why its so important to think out any questionable actions before you take them.

Some RTGs I noticed have T&Cs which state they can only pay the player a maximum of .. I think it was $2k .. either per week or per month. *that might be tied up in a bonus scheme and i think in fact that it is.

That’s not going to go over well either if looked back upon by those who will at that time have VERY credible names offering online games, from which to choose. Names that CAN and WILL pay all winners in such a timely fashion it’ll make the best ones nowadays look mediocre.

I sincerely doubt you’ll ever see Vegas telling you the most they can pay per week or month is a lousy 2 grand. Bonus scheme or not.

@MichelleCanaffco 169262 wrote:

1. What “sales” tactics annoy you the most?
2. How would you like to be approached?
3. Would you ever consider working with a company that represented themselves in this manner?

Re. (1) above, I hate “hard sell” with a passion. All that crap about “getting rich”, “higher placement” and “sending us lots of players”….click, click, delete.

Re (2) above, and perhaps strangely, unless it’s an affiliate manager I know well from conferences, dinner (whatever) I generally prefer communications from affiliate programs that are “bulk” emails about stuff happening, news, promos, ideas etc. That way there’s no pressure, personal replies aren’t required to every email etc etc.

As for (3), no way! No-one denies money is a useful commodity, but when they are that desperate you just know where you lie in the food chain. The current situation with 888 sums it up nicely.

PS. Not quite OT but I agree strongly with GamTrak. Bonuses are the scourge of this industry, although the industry only has itself to blame.

The second I realize someone is trying to sell something over the phone I say: “Not interested” and hang up.

I don’t care who and what it is, if I didn’t ask you to call me, just don’t bug me.

6’4″ and 250 pounds

well there goes any ideas I had of mis-behaving when/if we ever meet. I figure I got a hug coming from everybody here … and I might take advantage of that …

but I think you’re officially safe. … unless of course he’d be a sport and give me a head start running.

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Speaking of cold calling, does anybody know what the precedure is for getting on that no-call list in the states? and if it works the same for every state?

I might go research this later .. so nobody has an answer you might come back and check later and I’ll post what I found