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Didn't say they weren't good mind.
I for a favour, let a vacuum cleaner salesman come to my house. I think a friend hadn't bought a cleaner and to let him down less heavily she recommended me as a possible purchaser. I agreed, and arranged to see the guy.

He came round one Saturday afternoon about 3pm, I was nearly crying by 6pm. He had taken residence on my sofa, and wasn't leaving till I purchased a cleaner and he wanted a list of five friends names too. Hhe went on and on and on, trying every bloody trick in the book.



He never got the sale.



But from the horror of that afternoon, I will never let anyone ever begin to sell me something.
 
I for a favour, let a vacuum cleaner salesman come to my house. I think a friend hadn't bought a cleaner and to let him down less heavily she recommended me as a possible purchaser. I agreed, and arranged to see the guy.

He came round one Saturday afternoon about 3pm, I was nearly crying by 6pm. He had taken residence on my sofa, and wasn't leaving till I purchased a cleaner and he wanted a list of five friends names too. Hhe went on and on and on, trying every bloody trick in the book.



But from the horror of that afternoon, I will never let anyone ever begin to sell me something.

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What did he say like?

Five friends also :lol: bit extreme like :lol:
 
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What did he say like?

Five friends also :lol: bit extreme like :lol:

Most of his tricks stemmed along the lines of - do you want it in red or black? ie if I answer it is a "yes" I want the cleaner. Do I want to pay by debit card or credit card etc etc. This was many moons ago and I was very young, but I did find it intimidating to have this man sitting on my sofa, who I had told I had no intention of buying anything off him, I told him I had no money, anything and still he sat there.
 
Most of his tricks stemmed along the lines of - do you want it in red or black? ie if I answer it is a "yes" I want the cleaner. Do I want to pay by debit card or credit card etc etc. This was many moons ago and I was very young, but I did find it intimidating to have this man sitting on my sofa, who I had told I had no intention of buying anything off him, I told him I had no money, anything and still he sat there.

Shit that like mate but that's how they get most sales, just grind you down toll you finally can't take it anymore and buy :lol:
 
Never let a salesman in my house since though.

I don't even let them on my phone. I know everyone has to try to make a living but there are some jobs that are so pointless I find them an affront to humanity. Telesales and bog trolls are problies my worst. Lots of coppers and most traffic wardens are next. Lately here there has been a trend for paying people to stand in front of a shop at a crossroads carrying a huge sign about 'cash for gold' or summat to try and entice you into the shop. A modern day version of sandwich board advertisers I suppose. Kill them all.
 
I've been in Sales and sales management for 30 years and can do all three. As can all of the people who work for me.

Believe me, there are thousands of very good, and very dedicated sales professionals around.

A good sales person is none of the above.

You're wasting your time, he's probably met a very poor sales rep, or maybe even a few who are not good at what they do or have no moral scruples. The low morality almost certainly has nothing to do with the job, it's just how they are. It's enough to tar all sales people with the same brush though.

Myself and 4 others others doing the same job manage to keep 100 people in the north east fully employed, guess what we do, we sell. We compete in a very agressive market and we are better as individuals and as a whole company so we win, and by selling well we've become the bigest company in our market by a large margin.

If no-one sold anything, no-one would have a job, simple as that. Even service providers and civil servants are funded by money generated by people going out and persuading someone to spend some money on something. The OP should perhaps try not to generalise so much.
 
You're wasting your time, he's probably met a very poor sales rep, or maybe even a few who are not good at what they do or have no moral scruples. The low morality almost certainly has nothing to do with the job, it's just how they are. It's enough to tar all sales people with the same brush though.

Myself and 4 others others doing the same job manage to keep 100 people in the north east fully employed, guess what we do, we sell. We compete in a very agressive market and we are better as individuals and as a whole company so we win, and by selling well we've become the bigest company in our market by a large margin.

If no-one sold anything, no-one would have a job, simple as that. Even service providers and civil servants are funded by money generated by people going out and persuading someone to spend some money on something. The OP should perhaps try not to generalise so much.

Spot on.

What are you selling nowadays? It used to be enclosures IIRC.
 
I had a salesman from the High Street's most famous bathroom company around a few years ago to give us a quote - he sat there for a few hours asking loads of crappy questions and then he told me it would be £9K+............I threw him out
 
Spot on.

What are you selling nowadays? It used to be enclosures IIRC.

Blimey, good memory there AB22, we've both aged a bit since then. That was in the late 80's.

Emergency control equipment now, Fire/Gas/Emergency Lighting/DDA panels etc. I got into the Fire Protection industry 20 odd years ago, and moved into product sales to the industry rather than installing systems, it's easier and pays a lot more.

By the way, my mum knows your mum quite well from church, your mum's always saying how well you're doing and how proud she is. Being so far away I thought you'd like that.
 
Blimey, good memory there AB22, we've both aged a bit since then. That was in the late 80's.

Emergency control equipment now, Fire/Gas/Emergency Lighting/DDA panels etc. I got into the Fire Protection industry 20 odd years ago, and moved into product sales to the industry rather than installing systems, it's easier and pays a lot more.

By the way, my mum knows your mum quite well from church, your mum's always saying how well you're doing and how proud she is. Being so far away I thought you'd like that.

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Aye, a long time ago Neil.

I remember at school you used to knock about with a lad called Tony Woods. I worked with him for a while at British Steel, he was crap and knew it so he left to join the army. Last thing I heard he was a tree surgeon.

Good lad Tony.
 
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