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First: the weirdest marketing call I've gotten so far.
Phone rings; I answer.
Male voice, about my brother's age I'd guess, monotone: This is Rich calling from Ocean Glass. *pause almost long enough for me to interject, "Yes, and?"* We're calling to see if you own a car with a crack in the windshield.
No, we do not.
Thank you. *silence*
I hang up, bewildered.
Second: I get email from the beer and wine hobby shop. They do a Christmas-in-July sale. I fall over laughing; for once a Christmas in July sale that makes sense.
Third: Not marketing so much as the car dealership calling up to ask whether there were any comments on the servicing. I actually knew what he had to say about it, and so I explained where the service had been deemed inadequate. She ended the conversation fairly abruptly for some reason.
Phone rings; I answer.
Male voice, about my brother's age I'd guess, monotone: This is Rich calling from Ocean Glass. *pause almost long enough for me to interject, "Yes, and?"* We're calling to see if you own a car with a crack in the windshield.
No, we do not.
Thank you. *silence*
I hang up, bewildered.
Second: I get email from the beer and wine hobby shop. They do a Christmas-in-July sale. I fall over laughing; for once a Christmas in July sale that makes sense.
Third: Not marketing so much as the car dealership calling up to ask whether there were any comments on the servicing. I actually knew what he had to say about it, and so I explained where the service had been deemed inadequate. She ended the conversation fairly abruptly for some reason.
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The funny part was that the call was so scripted that, although my '64 Falcon's windshield is so badly scratched and fogged that it probably ought to be replaced, and I'd like to have a sense of how much a replacement would cost, the salesperson was so focused on cracked windshields that he didn't leave any room for me to figure out how to point that out until after he'd hung up!
- Brooks