DIg Me, Influence Me

I was in Land mark when I found that there are some interesting things people do. They are the new guys in town armed with social engineering skills. I was just looking into Rocky part II cd back cover when this guy came and just started on conversation

" hey this is the best movie I have ever seen". I could just relate to the marketing tactics that is told in books to start on a conversation. I just turned to the guy and I know I am caught here. i am caught in the embarrassment of not having seen Rocky in my entire life time till now. Devil in me that always hate ignorance has to tell something. I just replied him I am a great movie collector and my decision is to whether to own the CD or not even though I have seen it n Number of times. I had to be like somebody to tell something that i possess. I told him that in spite of a seventy mm membership for watching movies I am in a decision making process. He asked me what I do and I had all the answers that he needs. What I do and what I am good for.

All was fine and he asked me to keep in touch and I have to give away my phone number. Five minutes passed and I had another guy looking at me with great surprise and tells me he has seen me. Unassumingly I have to repeat my entire past to see where I had met him. Towards the end I have to give him my number. I was gone flat in flattery. I told the same to my father and he had all the information that I have been trapped by some Indian intelligence. I was quite upset that my enthusiasm for the day which I got from talking to the strangers has to end like this. My fear got over when I finally got the call from these guys mentioning about the great business opportunity and that they are the Amway terrorists looking for mercenaries to do the direct marketing.

Formula One

I had read about various ways how people get rid of telemarketers. One way was quite interesting. It is like this; when some one calls you, try to sell some product to them. I got my fair chance when one lady representing Barclay Bank called me. Conversation goes like this

Exe: Hai Is this XYZ
XYZ: Ya it is me
Exe: Sir, we are interested in giving a Barclay card to you.
XYZ: Oh finally. I work for Ascendas Software. I was looking eagerly for a call.
Exe:Sir
XYZ: We are into CRM and we have excellent suits designed especially for you
Exe: I am not understanding
XYZ: See every day you call and get lots of curses. Our highly efficient software that especially uses natural language processing capabilities inside highly customized application suits gives info on customer behavior and spending patterns .

Exe: What?
XYZ: Please help me
Exe: How can I help you?
XYZ: Please give your supervisor no
Exe: I don't have that
XYZ: Give me you number
Exe: I do not have one
XYZ: Please. I am new to this job and you know how difficult it is to market a product. Please help me.
Exe: You know Hindi?( Sir tone is gone)
XYZ: yes
Exe: tell what is this in Hindi
Xyz: Mein Ascendas mein kaam karta hoom and Mera paas ek beshkimti product hai jo aapko badi kaam aa sakthy hain.
Exe: Ok I understood. I will ask my supervisor to call you .
XYZ: Please do that...

Supervisor called me after 5 mins and it is up to audience to imagine. I got an appointment next Wednesday to sell the product.

Looking forward for the same........