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  • #1

    Uhm... No? We sell cars.

    Got an outside call today. It was just odd.

    Phone rings as I'm in the middle of the oil change from hell. Looking for any excuse to step away for a moment I answer it.

    Me: Thank you for calling 'Car Dealership' Service Department, my name is Joe, how can I help you?
    Weird Caller: I just have one question. I was wondering if you have any Wii's in stock today.
    Me: ...I'm sorry sir, we don't sell electronics. This is 'Car Dealership.'
    WC: Are you sure this isn't 'Local Video Game Store?'
    Me: ...Yes sir, I'm sure we're not 'Local Video Game Store.'
    WC: But I really need a Wii!
    Me: I know the feeling sir, I've been wanting to get one myself for a while.
    WC: Heh, yeah... So, do you know the number for 'Local Video Game Store?'
    Me: No sir, I don't. But I do know that it's listed online and in the phone book.
    WC: Oh, okay. Thank you! Buh Bye!

    Glad for the break, but uhm... WTF?
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  • #2
    Well, at least the person was nice about it

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    • #3
      How was he sucky? He probably mis-dialed.
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      • #4
        Quoth powerboy View Post
        How was he sucky? He probably mis-dialed.
        Where in his post did he say the man was sucky? In fact he specifically mentioned that it was just odd.

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        • #5
          Quoth powerboy View Post
          How was he sucky? He probably mis-dialed.
          For me the suck is here

          Not listening to opening spiel informing him he called the wrong place
          Asking again if he called the wrong place insinuating the TC did not know where he worked.
          Whining that he needs something the wrong place cannot get them.

          If you don't listen, ask me to double check something duh, and then whine, you SUCK.

          He may have been nice about it, but there was still suck involved.
          "It's times like these that make me wanna go straight."
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          • #6
            The part where he asked, "Are you sure?" would have annoyed me. If my place of employment was a game store, and not a car dealer, I think I'd know about it.
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            • #7
              Yeah. The part where he said, "Are you sure?" That's extremely irritating.

              Maybe they were trying to call my store. Where, when I say, "No, we don't have any Wiis," they can reply..."Are you sure?"
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              • #8
                And assuming the person on the end of a wrong number will know the correct number is pretty sucky too.
                "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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                • #9
                  Quoth cinema guy View Post
                  And assuming the person on the end of a wrong number will know the correct number is pretty sucky too.
                  True, although sometimes they get enough wrong-number calls for the other place that they get curious enough to check it and look it up.

                  Years ago, I looked up the number for a car dealer in the phone book, only to find that it was the wrong number when I tried to call it. It's extremely rare, but even the phone book gets a wrong number entered into it sometimes.

                  The number that was printed was apparently for a residence. The guy who answered it told me I had the wrong number, but was nice enough to tell me what the correct number was. I wouldn't have asked, but he offered it.
                  Sometimes life is altered.
                  Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
                  Uneasy with confrontation.
                  Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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                  • #10
                    We used to get those wrong numbers at a doctor's office I once worked at. The first three or OUR #'s were 937-xxxx and the POST OFFICE was 934-xxxx, so we knew what the problem was and would tell people about it.

                    One day, however, I answered the phone, "Hello, Dr. K's office" and the person said, "Could I have a large steak and cheese sub?"
                    I was not hired to respond to those voices.

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                    • #11
                      One of the numbers that comes in to my travel-call center is a mis-print for one of the Canadian branches of Greyhound.

                      Most of the people are pretty nice when I tell them it's a misprint and offer the correct number. Of course, there's always a few SC's that ask me if I'm sure (that I don't work for Canadian Greyhound???) and INSIST they dialed the number that I recite to them.
                      "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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                      • #12
                        Quoth MadMike View Post
                        True, although sometimes they get enough wrong-number calls for the other place that they get curious enough to check it and look it up.
                        The first time I called my friend Sean, the guy on the other end told me it was a wrong number and gave me Sean's new number. The odd part? The guy had gotten this number four years earlier, and still got a call for Sean about once or twice a week. The dumb part? I got the number from Sean's sister about a month earlier. The science fiction part? The guy on the other end was very nice about it, even though he'd been getting numbers for Sean once or twice a week for four years. 200-400 times he'd given the same spiel to complete strangers and he was still nice about it.
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                        • #13
                          We had a number years ago, that was still listed in the phone book as belonging to a lawyer. Yeah, those calls were fun! I got the "are you sure?" question a lot.

                          Yes, I'm sure that I'm standing in my living room and not a lawyer's office, thanks for asking!
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                          • #14
                            Quoth coldcupofjoe View Post
                            Weird Caller: I just have one question. I was wondering if you have any Wii's in stock today.
                            What if you would have replied ..... "yes, why yes we do....."
                            This area is left blank for a reason.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth karma_gypsy View Post
                              What if you would have replied ..... "yes, why yes we do....."
                              I thought about that. But then I thought about the people who work at the video game store. They're cool. I wouldn't wanna do that to them.

                              I also thought about transerferring him to one of our parts guys. Partly because one of them would have led him around and had a good story to tell afterwards and partly because the other guy would have just tranferred him over to the first guy.

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