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Last week you spammed me from your (obviously purchased) marketing list.

Apparently the cool new strategy from the sales seminar you just attended is to Reply to the spam you sent with “Any thoughts?”

Like I’m going to be confused and say “gee, I must have been conversing with this guy and forgotten about it, I better continue that dialog…”?

Dumbass.

Right click → Block Sender Domain.

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That’s sneaky.

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Have to agree with you. It appears that some of these sales people have taken to using phishing techniques in their email messages with phrases like “circling back” or “in our previous conversation”

I had one the other day that kept emailing me repeatedly to which I never responded. Then I received an email with " I have to believe that the problem is me. Any sort of correspondence would be appreciated"

So I corresponded with…Most would take notice that they are being ghosted and just stop ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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It’s probably new sales tool software to automate all of the crap.

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This is the genius of the “constant contact” type of software. It keeps generating this crap until I block the entire domain. Then no one in the company EVER will get an email from you again. (Listening, all you sales people?)

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I do think that the content of a “Sales” Seminar, and a" How to p!$$ of potential customers" Seminar would have virtually the same content!

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But that’s no fun!

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I got this the other day

"I keep a count of how many times I followed up with someone, just to brag later with my peers about how persistent I had to be to win customers, even if I’m doing just the right thing for them.

You know what that means. I’ll keep trying :). I hope you don’t mind because it’s for reasons that are good for your revenue!"

I don’t mind, they can keep trying, I set upa rule so I don’t have to look at any of the emails. What I do wonder is who the hell these things work on?

Couldn’t agree more with ICH, is it just a case of annoying people until they buy something?

@ich

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I don’t know why they think tactics like that will work.

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I got one the other day that said he found my info on Linked In. Funny. I deleted that profile almost five years ago. Lie much? I thought about calling the sender on it but my conspiracy theorist mind says if I give them the satisfaction of replying, they go “we’ve got a live one here!” and I just get more crap.

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So… sales people are now doing the clingy girlfriend/boyfriend thing? Interesting choice…

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Whatever a sales person has, we do not. If they call for network gear, we only have one computer, and it is not connected to the internet. If they want to clean my air ducts, then I live in a vacuum. If this great new product is going to save me time and money, I am a billionaire, who enjoys the tinkering I do in my spare time. The smart ones realize they have barked up the wrong tree, and quickly surrender. The fun ones do not, and try to continue.

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Yeah, I’ve seen that passive/aggressive claptrap a time or two. Really pitiful.

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I’ve seen a lot of this lately, I don’t eve get the initial spam just the RE or FW. or ones that we talked briefly before want I said I wanted to set up a meeting. The tactic must be working on a suitable number of people.

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Persistent pestering won’t win any sales around here.

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I downloaded a trial of a product a while back and before I even had a chance to install it, they were blowing up my phone and my email.

I finally told the sales person to stop emailing me and the response was something like “Oh sorry, I’ll remove you from my list but did you know…” and went on for another 3 paragraphs about why I should choose their product. It was highly likely I was going to purchase their product but NOPE.

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there was a website dedicated to this, one of my favorite entries was a phone sales guy calls them they respond, “We don’t have any phones” while on the phone. Guy says okay and hangs up lol.

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Ah, but such is the TEST of a GOOD salesperson! You ever hear the story of the two shoe salespeople that went to Africa? One called back to their head office and said, “You might as well fly me home. Nobody here wears shoes…” The other called THEIR head office and said, “You need to ship me all the product you can, immediately! Nobody here wears shoes!!!”

Though this tactic is probably trying to elicit some sort of guilt from you, this statement IS part of sales training! If I try to sell you a product, and you say no with money in your pocket, then the SALESPERSON is the problem. If the salesperson was good, then why wouldn’t you buy their product? They literally deny that ANY reason can possibly exist otherwise. I’ve seen great salespeople FIRED from their jobs, just because the managers saw too many people telling them, ‘no’. Their numbers and such didn’t matter. There should be no such thing as failure to sell.

This total lack of common sense is why I didn’t pursue a career in that field.

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I somehow got on some VoIP list kept getting calls about how their product was so great and that they wanted to set up a demo. I was like, listen, I am not responsible for any part of the VoIP system in my current position. “So you are a influencer?” No, I have nothing to do with our VoIP system. “So you are the decision maker?” No, I have nothing to do with our VoIP system. “So would you say that your role is an influencer?” No, I have nothing to do with the VoIP system. "So that would make you… "No, I have nothing to do with our VoIP system, good day sir. click. We, my company and not me in any way, finished our new VoIP system rollout about a month before I kept getting all of those calls.

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I got that same one and just ignored it again.