A Thoroughly Satisfying Phone Conversation with IBS Telemarketer!

This is so much joy hahaha....

Phone rings, Jen picks up

Jen: Hello?

IBS TM: Hello good morning, madam, may I speak to J?

Jen: Yes speaking.

IBS TM: Hi, I'm A calling from B company representing IBS Bank. Today, we want to offer you our credit card that comes with free subscription for life. And also our credit line services.

Jen: What makes you think that I need a credit line?

IBS TM: Oh mdm, you can enjoy our credit card that is has no subscription charges for life time then. (And she went on for 1min telling me how good this credit card is....)

I listened and really got interested in this all round wonderful card that she described it to be. She even got to the part where she'll send a courier down for me to sign on the forms... this is where it got interesting hehe

Jen: Oh, I really like to sign up for the card, now that you mentioned all these privileges! What do I need to give to the courier?

IBS TM: Oh mdm, it is really easy, I can fill up the application forms for you, you just need to sign on it. By the way mdm, how long have you been working in your current job?

Jen: I'm not working currently.

IBS TM: Oh sorry mdm, the first criteria of owning this card is that you must be working.

Jen: No, you did not ask me if I was working before offering me this card. You told me that you wanted to give me this card with all this special interest rates, privileges and now you asked me about my job? Why dun you ask me if I'm working first before offering me the card? I'm so disappointed you know? I really WANT the card now!

IBS TM: I'm sorry mdm, you need to be working, maybe you can ask your husband to apply for it?

Jen: Why ask someone else to apply for it? You called me right? Don't you want me anymore?

ISB TM: Yes I called. Maybe your husband can get the card instead?

Jen: What makes you think I'm married? Can't I be single?

ISB TM: Oh sorry mdm.

Jen: Or worse, what if I'm going through a divorce? Won't your constant reminder of my "husband" make me really upset?

ISB TM: hangs up!

hahahahhaa..... I love it!

I think the next one... I'll sob at the mention of a job....

Your Friend S-H-A-R-O-N

Got one of the thousands tele-marketing calls again. This time they were a little bit more creative, they found me a friend named Sharon. Here's the conversation:

Telemarketer (TM):"Hello, good afternoon, may I speak to Ms J please?"

J: Yes speaking?

TM: Ms J, your friend referred you to us, we are from True Yoga, we are very happy to offer you 1 week FREE trial at True Yoga.

J: (tempted to say YES immediately, FREE leh, my kinda of cool. But this is also like the 1001th Free trial i've been offered, so abit more cautious)
What is the name of my friend who gave you my name?

TM: Oh let me check, (flips paper in the background for 0.01sec). Its your friend Sharon.

J: Sharon? Sharon what? What's her surname?

TM: Oh surname ah, (flips MORE paper in the background) we do not have that data with us. Its just Sharon.

Wont it be strange that for a member to register, they have to pay quite abit of registration fees, subscription fees etc and they wont have their member's surname? Even donkey forms in most places would require you to give them your NRIC. They don't have the member's surname?

If its an authentic phone call with an authentic recommendation, there should be more details. What's there to hide anyway?

J: I don't have a friend by that name.

TM: (in shock) You don't have a friend called Sharon? Its S-H-A-R-O-N! (yes, she spelt it out for me)

J: Nope, not one that will give you my particulars and do not dare to admit it anyway.

TM: Oh okay, thank you very much then.
*hangs up quickly*

How fake can this be?

They gave me a pseudo friend ha ha ha

And she was not the first one to do so. The last one gave me a friend with a local dialect name which I really dun have a friend by that name ha ha ha Like di-gum for them eh?

So for all those reading here, please do kindly drop a note to me if you were pressurized to give my name to any organization, for any purpose, for any free trials, freebies etc. Its only courteous to do so if its a friend that you are pushing to these telemarketers.

But I know for much certainty that my friends are sensible enough not to put my name down on these forms. Because they are nothing but a nuisance!