Do Salesmen Really Not Trust Their Products?

Filed under: Consumer Market, Information Technology, Telecommunication Infos — admin at 8:18 am on Friday, December 26, 2008

Is it just me or do sales people in the UK just not trust their product? I was called by a telesales rep today about some deals on broadband and mobile Internet for a company (who shall remain nameless). The deal he was pitching sounded great but I told him that I wouldn’t proceed without doing a broadband comparison.

He then hit me with the hard pitch, a bunch of sales speak and some rubbish about the deal he was calling about only being available now. As it happens, I have been thinking about moving broadband provider and have been very tempted by the idea of getting mobile Internet, so I am really the ideal customer for him.

But he was determined not to let me go make my broadband comparison, worried, presumably, that I would realise that the deal he was offering wasn’t that good (actually it was a very good deal). Why is it these sales people have no faith in their products? If they are going to be pitching these goods and deals over the phone surely they have to believe they are good deals for me, if not they would simply be rip off merchants.

Either way the hard sell turned me off and I hung up on him, but I am looking at these broadband and mobile Internet offers trying to decide which to get. Broadband genie.co.uk has a great page that gave me all the info I needed.

His lack of faith has probably lost him a sale.

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