red mum

A COUPLE of weeks ago some salesperson from Sky cable called to my house, three times in one evening, trying to sell me a Sky package. During their first call to the house I asked them to call back as it wasn’t a good time, I did not expect them back two more times that evening, so finally I told them that I wasn’t interested. This was probably more to do with the three calls in one evening more than anything else.

Then on Friday night past, during Coronation Street, another salesperson called to our door asking did I want Sky and once again, as I was in the middle of a heap of things, I asked them to come back again. He did an hour later…

As Ellybabes and Rabble Muse were expected any minute I told the Sky Guy that I wasn’t interested. And ooohhhh he was not impressed in the slightest and told me that it was a pity as he could have saved me a load of money.

Might I suggest a couple of things to Sky:

Firstly my home time is incredibly precious to me and I am not happy answering the door in my pjs on a Friday evening after a busy week in work to pushy salespeople no matter how wonderful your deal is.

Secondly have some literature which details how you can save me money, recognise when someone cannot talk to you (or indeed does not want to talk to you) and give them the details. I will look at it. Calling repeatedly back to my house will see me say an outright NO. I am not trying to waste your time, I am trying to preserve my own. Oh yeah and don’t be narky with them when they say no, thats our choice as consumers. Being narky with me, a potential customer, does not endear me to your company in the slightest.

Thirdly I am not at all comfortable answering my front door at night to strange men. I imagine I am far from being alone in this and I do find it mad, that a company such as Sky, would adopt such a sales method.

Fourthly drop the aggressive salespitch, that will turn me off straight away and I will say NO.

Finally if you cover an area one time, its probably best to wait a decent amount of time before hitting it again, ie a lot longer than a matter of weeks.

I HADN’T intended to watch the rugby today but having checked into Twitter at one stage this afternoon I couldn’t help but tune in given the excitement in the tweets. AND my god what an ending, heart-stoppingly brilliant. I’m not going to say more and show my complete ignorance of rugby but well done to the team for their first Grand Slam since 1948 and I hope everyone is having a great time today. Oh yeah and well done to the twitterers too.

So these are for my 365 today (I have more on Pixie), and while not actual photographs, they are screengrabs of the coverage on RTE and given the day in it they are not cheating in my book

I SPOTTED this man outside the Dail with his sign. We chatted briefly and he allowed me to take his pic. His sign reads ‘God has caused the economy to fail to get your attention’.

(March 19th – 365)

(March 18th – 365)

This was taken from the second floor of the Guinness Storehouse at the Pixie Party which was great craic altogether from the parade to the evening do. You can check out the rest of my pics on Pixie and everyone else’s also on Pixie. I also wrote a bit more about St Patrick’s Day on Dublin Blog.