No, our competitor can NOT set you up with our service!

[Mytical]

Hey Redbeard, just got transferred over to you by your competition XYZ services..they swore that you would set me up with a year free internet/cable/phone. You are going to honor that right? *ducks and runs*

Sorry...couldn't resist..devil made me do it.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Other than blasting them into space?

Oh great. Just what we need. More space debris.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That's the problem with buying out the competition. There's no one left to send the high maintenance SCs to.

So what's the only viable option left in dealing with the high maintenance SC's? Other than blasting them into space?

[Ironclad Alibi]

After we merged with our biggest competitor we found out that they'd been regularly sending high maintenance SCs our way.

Couldn't really complain. We'd been doing the same thing.

That's the problem with buying out the competition. There's no one left to send the high maintenance SCs to.

[Dips]

After we merged with our biggest competitor we found out that they'd been regularly sending high maintenance SCs our way.

Couldn't really complain. We'd been doing the same thing.

[taxguykarl]

I have been known to send Royal Pain In The Ass customers to our direct competitors.

When explaining my tax chain's process, I add that if you [the customer] want shenanigans, patriotic sounding rival is across diagonal and Green Sqaure is in the strip mall two signals away. Let them deal with the scammers, or scammer wannabees.

[PepperElf]

Mr. Spock has gone off to get drunk.

What kind of person thinks a company will help out its competitor??

someone who's sick of dealing with a customer and wants to pawn the onto someone else entirely?




and I see from Grumpy's reply... I'm not the only one who's thought of that.

[EricKei]

We've been tempted on occasion, believe me >_> Thing is, Corporate is sufficiently spineless that this may result in them getting a pack of free cards if we did.

I also really loved when people in another (DaddyJim's) store's delivery zone would call us and get PISSED that we don't deliver to them. The accusations of WHYYYYYYYYY would then fly, but let's not go into that here, OK? ^_^;> They don't seem to comprehend that those zones -- at least, with us -- are defined by contract. Delivering to another store's customers could get us fined at the very least, and get our franchise license pulled if it becomes a repeated issue.

[Ironclad Alibi]

But then others would ask us for the number to Pizza Slut or Rectangle's...Even if we knew (hey, even we couldn't eat our own stuff all the time!), we played ignorant.

Since you're in Da Big Easy, maybe you can give them the competition's phone number to a location in Chicago or Boston.

(Inspired by another post in this forum where someone in Boston somehow ordered pizza for delivery from a store in Chicago.)

[Kristev]

They eventually get distracted by something shiny. Unfortunately, it's not in the street with plenty of motorcars going by.

[emax4]

You gotta wonder what happens after the call, when they call the competition back and either admit defeat or try using the same technique on them, sending them into an endless loop.

[EricKei]

What kind of person thinks a company will help out its competitor??

Happened at DaddyJim's all the time. People would ask us for the phone number for other DaddyJim's stores -- no problem, even if it was a different owner. But then others would ask us for the number to Pizza Slut or Rectangle's...Even if we knew (hey, even we couldn't eat our own stuff all the time!), we played ignorant.

[Grumpy]

Mr. Spock has gone off to get drunk.

What kind of person thinks a company will help out its competitor??

I have been known to send Royal Pain In The Ass customers to our direct competitors.

[Redbeard]

By "your" service, maybe she just meant cable/internet/whatever in general?

Whoops, forgot where I was again.

Nope, she was giving our company by name. I tried to tell her that the whole thing was screwy, but you know how SC's tend to ignore reality

[bainsidhe]

By "your" service, maybe she just meant cable/internet/whatever in general?

Whoops, forgot where I was again.