I feel terrible for people that are working for commission. If you do and you like it that’s fine, it’s just that I get all these calls from overseas that are “Sydney based companies” offering me a mobile phone for free with $30 credit, a free DVD player, a cheaper phone plan. I don’t know what the catches are for all of them, maybe the only catch is that they want your business and if you’re satisfied with them you’ll stay with them. I feel sorry for the callers because they work mostly on commission and they’re just not going to get my business.
I got the cheaper phone bill call just now. It was so hard to understand what he was saying (his accent wasn’t incomprehensible but add in the phone and overseas factors and it’s damn hard to listen) and I don’t know if I got the name of the company correct. I couldn’t find the company on the intarweb so I can’t say I was too impressed, not only is online support a factor but if they’re not big enough to have any reference to themselves on the net then I don’t know that it’s not a scam.
The main problem I have with these calls is that you have to sign up with whatever they want on the spot. I would never sign up to something without seeing the paperwork. He mentioned some kind of 10 day cooling off period in which they send out paperwork and you can cancel if you want, but seriously… pretty much the only reason we have a home phone is because we use ADSL (and hubby doesn’t have a mobile but enough people call my mobile for him anyway). So what if I said yes to that guy on the phone (who I could barely understand) and they switched our contract over and our internet died because they were a fake or dodgy company and we lost our Telstra account. That would be seriously annoying and not worth the $5 we’d save every month.
There’s always fine print and you can’t know what that is when you can barely hear the large print over the phone!
