Reveiws

[old foolParticipant @old-fool]

Hi all. I wonder if I’m the only one who gets fed up with repeated requests for reviews. Last summer I ordered some

5/16 BSF nuts. They dropped on the shagpile. In the envelope were the nuts as requested, I examined them through the bag and finding all in order put the bag on the kitchen table as I wasn’t going in the ‘shop that day.

Later that day I found a request for a review. What can you say about a bag of nuts? My answer:- just received a bag of holes, all metalclad.  I got a prompt reply thanking me for my review. I’ve had various engineering bits from various suppliers since and never been asked to review. Seems the answer is “Talk drivel and they don’t bother you again!

Seems to work on phone scams too.

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

Works very well on phone scams. I talk total BULL S,,,T for a few minuets until they get fed up and just hang up.

Some people say I,m very good at this .

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

This is just a thing now but if I walk into a shop do they ask for a review. So why does an online shop do it

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Yes…

Toolstation is one culprit: “Have you had chance to use your….. yet?”

I’ve stopped replying. What’s so special about a bag of nuts and a can of WD-40?

 

So is my bank… after I have used its real building.

“How would you recommend us to family and friends?” followed by a 1 – 10 scale bar.

I give 10 and type into the reason-block something like,

“Because you still have a real branch staffed by real people, in my local town centre!”

 

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Not had a any phone calls lately, apart from those strange silent ones. Now I seem to obtain only e-posts that are usually, obviously criminal at first glance.

I was toying with a couple of telephone games.

One is to pretend English is my poorly-learnt second-language and having written a long list of Welsh village names for this, recite some as if speaking my “native” language. I don’t speak Welsh either, but have a rough grasp of pronounciation – though have lost so many teeth the “ll” is a bit difficult!

Another, politely suggesting their details for me are wrong and helpfully “correcting” them to something totally bogus, such as a name and address formed from geographical feature names… in Welsh or Norwegian perhaps. (So as not to unwittingly give someone’s real identity.)

Or something like “Oh, I don’t use Microsoft any more. I use xxxx version-two “, with some invented name to pique the caller’s interest. Then if he rises to the bait, give a load of utter rhubarb whose gems include this magic OS having a full, real-time, message source and route identifier. (Any vacancies in Cheltenham…?)

I told a few callers I used to work in “IT Security”. That frightened them into hanging up immediately. Well, I did. Sort of. I simply had special access to the works’ secure server-room / computer workshop to collect used packing materials for disposal.

 

 

 

[cedric 1Participant @cedric]

It’s the 21st century replacement for customer service — and most annoying.

I just got a “How Did We Do?” survey email from my bank after I made a small transfer online from my everyday account to my   savings account.  Two clicks of a mouse on a website. They didn’t “do” anything. As I pointed out to them in my 1 star review.

[old foolParticipant @old-fool]

Glad I’m not alone. Someone once offered to design a new kitchen for me. To which I replied I haven’t got room. “Oh we’ll remove the old one” “Wont my bedroom fall into the yard?” I asked. “No I mean the units and cooker etc” “Oh we’ve gone from a new room to a few cupboards in the old one” There was a click! never called again!

The current one seems to be miss-sold PPI Which I said “Isn’t that to do with facemasks and wellies for NHS staff?” they usually give up soon after. (Actually that’s PPE)

 

Bob

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