We all get them, the phone rings with a withheld number.  You consider not answering but it gets the better of you.  You answer and its ‘Good Afternoon, I’m calling from Acme Wall Cladding……’  GRRRRRRRRR

Well my friend’s come up with a good way to deal with them that I haven’t heard before.  It goes like this.

He claims he doesn’t have what you need to have to buy what they are selling.  Let me explain.  Take the Wall Cladding sales call.  He would answer, all very polite and happy, ‘That’s wonderful, but my house doesn’t actually have any exterior walls.  I know it’s unusual, but it’s the way they built the house’.  This takes the wind right out of their sails (and their sale!)

It works for wall cladding, mobile phones etc.

The other day a Window and Door replacement company phoned.  ‘Hello Sir, can I interest you in any replacement windows’, ‘That would be fine, but my house doesn’t actually have any windows.  I know its strange’  The poor girl struggled a bit with this concept, but recovered enough to ask about doors.  However being told the house had no doors either was too much and she put the phone down. 

The technique works!!  Or does it?