Being dumped before your first date or how not to sell to me

Date Posted - 21 Jan 2009 | Posted By - Jacqui Sanwell | Comments 2

I took a call the day before yesterday from a man called John who told me he worked for Xerox, as we have a Xerox printer in our studio he had my attention.  He went on to tell me that Xerox wanted to replace all the units in the field of our particular model – free of charge.  I’m a bit of a cynic and when a deal seems to good to be true I like to see hard evidence rather than listen to the chat.  I asked him to send me through the details via email which he agreed to send to me yesterday and he did.  The first thing I noticed when I read this was his email address.  It was clearly not a Xerox address, alarm bells started ringing and this prompted me to go to his site, You said you worked for Xerox John and you clearly don’t, OK I see you are the Xerox authorised concessionaire for the South of England but you started this whole thing with a lie and guess what I don’t trust you now.

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  1. I am loving the guys home page. How many towns can I mention in the footer?

    It’s amazing that people still work like this Jax. I had cheery news about 4Com on the same note (see the last comment)… http://tinyurl.com/673hr3

    Comment by - Craig Killick Date Posted - January 21, 2009

  2. Kudos! What a neat way of tnhiking about it.

    Comment by - Raynoch Date Posted - June 16, 2011

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