Bad bad Agents

I alighted from the bus and saw 2 guys clad in the same attire hastily walking towards me at full speed. One caught me before the other. He had a thin stack of half-A4 sized papers on small clip board and approached me.

Bad Sales Tatic 1
Pretending to know the potential customers you approach. Or trying to hit on one.

"Hey do you remember me?"
"Hmm..." *You mean I know you??*
"Eh you don't remember me ah?"
"Huh..." *Who the hell are you!*
"Where are you studying now?"
"Erm.... I'm studying... yah..."
"Where?"
"NUS....That stack of papers... You wanna do survey isit?? "
"What year?"
"Third... Is that for survey?"
"Oh 85?"
"No. 83"
"Same as me!"
"Yes u doing survey huh?? I'm rushing for time."
"I'm also rushing for time."
"Ok then I need to go."
"Do you think $70 bucks per month is alot?"
"Hmm... dunno"
"What dunno...As in to save consistently per month. Is it alot?"
"Err.. consistently....Yah should be..." *Sways head from side to side*
"Eh you very cute leh"
*-_-"*
"But seriously do you save?"
"Depends."
"$70 isn't that much to ask for. Putting aside $70 bucks every month..."
"Errr...."
"What about the savings you have. Enough to cover what."
"......"
"Do you have like $1000 in your bank?"
"....Yah....but..."
"Then it's enough for deduction"

Bad Sales Tatic 2
Sways board in hand while talking and hits the potential customer on her elbow. (That is me lah!)
Without apologizing.

Bad Sales Tatic 3
Trying to show how capable you are in front of your potential customer.

"So you are trying to sell some policy?"
"Yah. Prudential. It's basically..."
"Don't bother. I have a friend doing that and he's been bugging me." *This isn't just an excuse. I really have a senior whom I wasn't familiar with and never contacted but suay suay met outside Chinatown mrt one day. He was doing "this survey" and ended up contacting me trying to sell me policies. Luckily for me, the nightmare has ended.
"Oh then he can't be a friend. Do you think they are still called friends if they bug you to sign policies with them?"
"Ermz... yeah..."
"Seriously, none of my customers are my friends. ZERO."
"Yah... Ok.."
"I nver approach my friends for policies. Cannot let these things affect friendship."
"Yup...So..."
"What's your friend's name?"
"AXXXN" *Tell me you know him!!! Then can stop this rubbish!*
"There are so many agents with prudential, 3500 of them. You know what's the difference between agents and....."
*wasn't listening to what he said, so can't remember*
"Not that I'm trying to haolian, but we have 3500 agents at prudential and I'm one of the top 5"
*Siao ah, smoke me! Top 5 then how come you are here along the streets trying to hardsell your policy??*
"Come with me lah, take a look." Walking over to the seats.
"Err for what?!"
"Help me sign one lah"
"No, no, no, no, no...." *I really repeated many many NOs, I don't know how many*
"Sign lah..."
"Eh no lah, sorry."

He stood there with a cant-do-anything and it's okay expression, gestured to show it's fine. And finally I was able to go off.... Why the hell did I say sorry for? Actually it took up only about 10 minutes of my time. But it seemed so much longer writtened out. Can't stand his attitude with the super smug expression wirttened all over his face! Why did I choose to not to leave? i thought it'll be extremely rude that's why I always kena stuck in such situations.... I know I am stupid... But I am just like that.... Hmm then I cannot complain, right?

=Agent ZERO=