Who likes telemarketers? Raise your hands out there all you lovers of people who try to sell you things you don’t need or want. Things that you have done fine without for all of your life until right now.

How about those timeshare salespeople? When I see them coming, I want to run away. Fast. Okay, so timeshares work great for a lot of people, and I may even consider one someday, but the hard sell thing drives me crazy.

There is a person I’ve known who comes to St. Croix a few times a year and has been running a business here for a number of years. We’ve had a comfortable mutually beneficial business relationship for a long time. Now she has started an internet advertising business and wants me to give her money for doing something she’s been doing for years….getting me a little business.

At first, I was pretty disappointed because we’ve had a nice easy relationship going on, but now she wants money for doing stuff that, in one breath she says she’s been doing for years, but in another that it is somehow different now. And I understand that this is the way of the world. Everybody wants more money, and I wish her luck with it. But she can really stop trying to sell it to me. I am very happy with my internet advertising, thank you very much….

She has sent us loooong e-mails about how many hits and blah blah blah as compared to the other websites and blah blah blah. And we’ve responded that we are not interested in advertising on her sites. But she keeps at it, trying to explain it in just the right way so we’ll give her money. She’s probably a very good salesperson, but that type of pushy behavior just turns me right off.

Yesterday, I responded to one of her loooong e-mails and said, basically, that all the technical stuff (which looks like blah blah blah to me), really means nothing to me, and that I am happy with the business we get from what we do and that I was disappointed that our long-time association comes down to a few bucks, now.

Then she called. She got Michael first and talked his ear off. He agreed to do some research on the numbers she gave him. Then she talked to me. And she talked and talked some more until I was forced to lie to her and tell her I had an appointment to get to. She kept saying the same stuff over and over. And, although I don’t understand all the intricacies of everything she said, I got the jist of it, but she just went on and on and on (blah blah blah). Finally I hung up. Then I went to the computer and there was another e-mail from her! I couldn’t believe it!

This time, I couldn’t stop myself. I apologized for not being into the hard-sell thing and told her how I react to annoying telemarketers and timeshare sales people. I thought that would be the end. But lo and behold, this morning there was another short (thank goodness!) e-mail refuting some of the wording in my e-mail about her “new” venture. But she promised she would stop bothering me. Well, she got the last word, and I hope it truly is.

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