Don't you just love it when someone calls and leaves a messages about you being referred by a happy client and the caller wants you to do their survey..then after a lengthy message, they slur the phone number...Not all of the number, just 3 out of 10.
Then you have to listen to the message again, and again and again, and have to wade through the lengthy message and still cannot make out the three mystery numbers.
Happens to me all the time..my hearing's not what it used to be. I just check my phone log (cell) or the caller I.D., their number is usually there..
All you can do is give it your best shot, if they really want to talk to you they will call back, if not, forget about it. Happens to us all and the world keeps right on turning.
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And I also love it when they say the number so fast its like a machine gun burst - 10 digits in 10 naon-seconds!
That is annoying, but have you tried Zaba Search? I have used it to find land line numbers before. You have to know the name and State, and it helps to narrow it down by town.
http://www.zabasearch.com/advanced.php
> That is annoying, but have you tried Zaba Search? I have used it to find land line numbers before. You have to know the name and State, and it helps to narrow it down by town.
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>> http://www.zabasearch.com/advanced.phpbr >
I second that. I use it all the time for searching for information.
I have that problem regularly. I gave up trying to guess their names a long time ago. The caller says, "This is Expresso Himelwight." You call back and talk with Frank Smith. Don't ask me why it works that way, but it does.
My grandmother, an english teacher, used to say EEE-NUN-CIATE.
I always work a proper slur back when I miss the name. If they say something that sounds like "Ray" or "Frank" I return the call and say something like "fRAYnthis is Bryan Taylor returning your call about a survey you need for your property?"
Somehow later I work in how to spell the name if I feel they are serious enough to get a proposal going.
Thanks for the link to the search engine.
I will have more than one use for that.
The OLD way was to look their name up in the telephone directory.
🙂
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