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How not to sell a house
So Cam and I are looking into buying a house. We first met a guy from Mortgage Choice. He was kind of weird.
We then met a woman from Aussie Home Loans, who was much nicer and suggested a much better sounding loan.
Just now Mortgage Choice guy rang up and asked for Cam. The entire point of his call? To figure out how to format a broken memory card.
I'm pretty sure one of the rules of salemanship is not randomly ringing up potential customers and asking them to do you a favour.
According to Cam it's one of the hazards of telling people you're a computer programmer. Which is unfortunate, since he hates helping people(*). Luckily while having a pure maths major got me lots of random "Omigodgrouptheortyishardandmyassignmentisduetommorrow" emails at uni it's not so bad now :) (That and I learned to say "Sure I'll help you, I charge $30 an hour")
(*)Well, helping them with their computers :)
We then met a woman from Aussie Home Loans, who was much nicer and suggested a much better sounding loan.
Just now Mortgage Choice guy rang up and asked for Cam. The entire point of his call? To figure out how to format a broken memory card.
I'm pretty sure one of the rules of salemanship is not randomly ringing up potential customers and asking them to do you a favour.
According to Cam it's one of the hazards of telling people you're a computer programmer. Which is unfortunate, since he hates helping people(*). Luckily while having a pure maths major got me lots of random "Omigodgrouptheortyishardandmyassignmentisduetommorrow" emails at uni it's not so bad now :) (That and I learned to say "Sure I'll help you, I charge $30 an hour")
(*)Well, helping them with their computers :)
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I think it depends on whether or not it's with right thinking fellow comrades.
It's not just IT: A friend of mine is a doctor, and she gets a lot of requests for free medical advice :)