Don’t Fall For A Telephone Sales Pitch
The telephone is still being used as a means of solicitation on a regular basis. Slick sales calls or pitches may catch unsuspecting victims off guard and may be similar to car sales persons who have a bad reputation for high pressure tactics. Someone who is looking for a home based business may fall for a telephone sales call and purchase a product which he would never have considered if he had checked it out first. There would have been no problem if there had been the opportunity to make a thorough investigation of it before signing up.There are lots of home based business opportunities being touted over the internet, and some are using the telephone to entice people who are looking for a way to earn money.If you have ever given your name and contact information to receive material on a home business opportunity, it is a pretty good bet that you are now receiving all kinds of emails trying to pitch this product or that. Telephone calls are also used as a means to get you to buy something. They start out by saying that you signed up for a money making opportunity and might ask if you are still looking for a way to earn money. The best thing to do is to simply tell them you are not interested and hang up.Of course, there could be some legitimate phone solicitations just as there are some good and reputable car sales people. However, it is best to avoid the telephone sales pitches mainly because it is impulse buying without a way to check them out thoroughly before signing up. They put on the pressure to do it now. Don’t fall for it.Alice had never intended to sign up for an opportunity on the phone, but she found herself listening to the sales pitch and giving out her credit card number. It just so happened that she was interested in getting a website and doing some marketing. Here was an opportunity presented to her on the telephone by someone who seemed so nice and understanding. He was from a company called EWeb Resources (the name has been changed), and he explained that they would give her a website with products to sell. She would get all the help she needed to promote her website and get customers. He told her that she could check out the company’s own website and call the Better Business Bureau in his city. Of course, she had to sign up first for $500. Since that amount seemed too high for her, she was told that they did have a program which she could get into for $195 with an iron clad money back guarantee if it did not work out for her. The promises and the potential seemed good enough to entice Alice to sign up. Later she checked out the company on the web and found that there were complaints against the company. After she decided that it was not for her, she requested a refund which was promised but never received even after months of repeated contacts by phone and email. She finally gave up and considered it as a bad business investment.Checking out a program before signing up is a good idea, and it cannot be done effectively with an urgent telephone sales call. A reputable company would not be so high pressured. The pitch may sound good, but don’t fall for it.
