Monday, January 5, 2009

Unwanted Calls

I had received lots of unwanted calls before in my life. But nothing is like this one.

Today, while I was in school, I got a call from "no number". I thought it was from my family members in Malaysia. Since overseas numbers appear as "no number" on my phone. But my dad just called me like 5 mintues ago.........who the heck is this??

Pick up? Not to pick? Pick up? Not to pick?

Pick up la..............................

Unknown person: Hello, this is calling from XX Relax Travel Agency (in a slang that I can't understand)
Me: (oh oh....not again)
Unknown person: We are giving out a promotion to 50 people who are chosen from our list. There will not be any obligation, no string tied, no fees. You will receive a membership card with a free vacation to Danga Bay, Johor - 1 night stay in a 3-room apartment. You will also receive discount for restaurants and hotels in Singapore once you show this membership card. And you will.......(I can't hear the rest, since it's too slangish and I am not really paying attention)

She kept babbling away for another 10 minutes in a "you owe me" kind of tone, while I just kept walking without hearing to every single word she said until she say....

Unknown (annoying) person: Can I have your block number so that I can deliver the package to you through courier?

Me: Actually I don't simply give out my house address to people I don't know.

Unknown person: Oh..as I said, I am Jennifer XX from the XX Relax Travel Agency (you never told me your name in the first place).

Me: So how did you manage to get my number? How did you all choose the 50 person to receive the promotion package?

Unknown person: Oh...we choose it from a list of people who travelled out of Singapore in the last 5 years (Crazy man...you mean you know all the people who travelled out of Singapore in the last 5 years?? I travel every weekend back to Malaysia.....)
Then we choose 50 people from that list, and you are the 50th person!!! Congratulation!!! (Wah...what a coincidence...I am the 50th person?? Must be my lucky goddess....) We had already despatched 35 promotion packages and had received good feedbacks. We had only 3 time slots to despatch the packages, so please choose from the following time. bla bla bla...

Me: Ok, tonight 8 pm.

Unknown person: OK. I will send the package over and you just need to pay $59.90 for the membership......................
Please prepare the cash when the courier man arrives (in a matter-of-fact tone again...)

What the...........you never told me anything about paying in the first place. And I don't owe you anything, so why keep talking as if I must pay for this membership package?? Anyway, I don't want to Danga Bay and stay for 1 night in a 3-room apartment with ghosts.....and I don't need discounts for hotels and restaurants in Singapore, even if it's real.

Me: I am not free to talk now.

Unknown person: Please talk to my promotion manager.

Promotion manager: Hello, do you need any clarification?

Me: I am not free tonight for the package to be sent over.

Promotion manager: What about day after tomorrow?

Me: I thought there were special time slots for despatching the item?

Promotion manager: Oh...you can also apply online and send you payment by Mastercard

Me: I don't have Mastercard

Promotion manager: Never mind, i will talk to XX manager about this and call you back.

What the.......................DON'T EVER CALL ME BACK!!!

I check on the internet for whatever relax travel agency and the one I found wasn't at the address they stated.

Please stop wasting my time, people. If you want to promote your services or products, please do it during a road show or in places where people can see you, and not cheat people in this kind of way.