This is the wierdest call I have ever received. He asked for a guy who used to work at the company that he thought was the owner and then when I told him he wasn't ever the owner he got upset with me and asked who the current owner was, after I told him he asked me to speak with him and he happened to be out with a client and then he proceeded to pretend cry on the otherside of the phone. Wow....
Strange guy. I answer my cell, he says, "Hey there, J, how's (names my town) treatin' you?" Hmmmm... I decide to be nice-- I think it's a sales call and I try to apply the golden rule. I say, "Fine, thank you. May I ask who's calling?" He says, "Jim Bishop, hey if you ever want to come out here to San Diego, I'll take you bungee jumping HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH!" I'm stunned into silence, I'm just not quick with the comeback remark. So the phone is silent for a beat or two then he says, "That's mean," and hangs up. Because he gave me a name I kept thinking maybe I knew this guy from way back...I couldn't come up with anything, so here I am.
When he gave me his name, he did it it a quick and quiet way-- not like he had to make one up, but almost like it was irrelevant. I don't know what that means, if anything, and I imagine I'm reading something into it, but it makes me feel like either it is his name, or its his buddy's name.
I'm on the east coast, if he called from San Diego, it was about 7:30 am. weird.
Got the same call as above. He knew my first name and city. Invited me to bungee jump in San Diego. I didn't laugh at his joke and after a few beats of silence he said goodbye and repeated my first name. WEIRD!
I got this call and he asked for the owner, which is me, by their first name. I said "who is this" and they again asked for the owner. I again asked "who is this" and they said "Manny from VPI" and I said, "what is VPI?" and they again asked for the owner and I hung up. Rude, stupid attempt at telemarketing.