Most creative rejection/insult on a cold call
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when i was interning as a cold caller before i got licensed i was qualifying a prospect while setting an appointment. I asked him about assets and he hung up on me. I was pretty shocked because he was a really nice guy, so i called back and got his vm. I decided to send him an email with the information that we had discussed, and in a response he told me he hung up on me because if he needed so many assets to have “a cup of coffee and a donut” with the advisor i set it up for, (in bold capital letters) screw me. he said to never call or email him again and he hopes i had to keep my suckd*** job until my wife collected the life insurance. This was when i was a senior in college.
I was cold calling one evening and got and man in 50s who just moved into town and he started asking me questions. I’m thinking he’s got a 401k to rollover but it turned out he was a Merrill Lynch manager brought in to clean up a local office. The best part of our conversation, and I swear this is the truth, is he had a porno film going in the background and never bothered to mute it…not even when…well, you get the idea. I heard every last word and every sound from whatever film he was watching.
That’s funny…but he was way too calm for that to be happening live, in front of him. That was 10 years ago and I still laugh about it.