Internet sales person hangs up on me

Posted Oct 28, 2008 @ 4:52 pm, Viewed by 853 Visitors, Read 899 Times.

Ok this was a first. I actually had a internet salesperson hang up on me today, usually it is me hanging up on them. We received an email from this Sales Manager from epagelisting so my wife calls after I told her it probaly is a lead company trying to sell their leads but call just to make sure, she turns the phone over to me after a few minutes. He starts going on how they have qualified buyers in Brandon that they can guarantee 3-5 buyers and guarantees they are real qualified buyers, no lookie lous and such. For the low cost of $500 per month plus 15% of the commision. Now usually I hang up on them at this point but this time I let him rattle on.

I then ask the gentleman don't you think I could spend $500 per month of my hard earned dollars on google ppc and get a better return than from someone that calls me out of the blue to guarantee me qualified buyers.  His reply is yes but they are garbage leads. I said garbage leads from google, are you kidding me? He then goes on to say they are on three search engines and I wisely point out to him that google is the number one search engine. Now I know at this point he knows absoluety nothing about web marketing, google, and internet leads.

Now here is the kicker he gives me the we rank #1 on search engines, Oh no not the we are #1 on search engines line. I can't take this anymore, I then ask him are you number one for the term brandon real estate he then goes on a rant on how he is not going to get in a sparring match with me and that they have serious brokers willing to work with them( that's why you are cold calling me) and proceeds to hangup. I guess he wasn't from the school of don't take no for an answer. I felt like I just knocked out Mike Tyson.

I bet you do rank for #1 for The world's most annoying lead generating company who has no idea what they're talking about.

here is the email they sent me by the way

To: Daniel Nappi

My Name is Julie. I am from Epage Homes in CA.  
    
I have clients who are looking to sell and purchase a home in your area (Brandon), unfortunately I cannot help them.

Can I refer these clients to you?

Regards,

Julie Sugar
Sales Manager, Epage Homes 
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
(818) 444-7311 Ext. 4001

Team Nappi works with buyers interested in Tampa Real Estate and also is a full service Tampa Property Management team.

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6 Responses to “Internet sales person hangs up on me”

Yes it's annoying when they call you up and don't know what they're talking about.  If they DID know what they were talking about they'd pull in a lot more suckers - but not us.

Posted 1 year ago
photo Marsha Foden

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for posting this on the web!!! I just received this exact same email, and thought to myself I'm going to go GOOGLE the name.  The reason for my search was that I had doubts about the email in the first place.  Whenever I read your email I realized that you just saved myself time, and perhaps alot of headaches. 

Thanks for the FYI..........

Marsha

Posted 1 year ago

I get those same e-mails all the time. That is funny that they hung up on you. I have had that happen to me one time too. We "rank #1 on Google" is definitely the lamest line.

Posted 1 year ago
photo Candace Robinson

I'm so getting burned out with the time these companies are taking from my day time. I guess it's part of the web presence we all seek. However, this stuff get's so old...even more so when I can't get to the phone and they leave a voice message for me. Often times it's worded in such a way, I can't tell if they are a sincere referral or total sales scam!! 

Posted 1 year ago
photo Vince Obar

Daniel,

I just received this same email today from Julie Sugar for the Round Rock, Texas market, and decided to see what's out there regarding  E Page Homes.  Thanks very much for your info and saving my time.

Vince Obar

Keller Williams Realty

Round Rock, Tx

Posted 12 months ago
photo velda

I received the exact same email today.  I usually just delete them but if they look the least bit authentic, I search the internet for the company.  I found this page today.  Typically I don't respond to them but today I did.  Here is what I replied: 

"No, you don’t have real, honest-to goodness, live buyers. You are a company that sells leads and I can generate leads one heck of a lot more efficiently with less money.  Please do not email me again."

 What a waste of time and bandwidth.  Wonder if they will respond...

Posted 12 months ago
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