It happened yesterday and I feel for it hook line and sinker. I was on my office phone when my cell phone rang. My assistant Tracey picked up my cell phone and answered it for me. She told the caller that I was on another line and could she take a message? The caller said no that they would hold.
So, I get off the office phone and answer my cell phone. The caller had an accent that I could not make out, but struggled a bit to understand what was being said. So the first thing that was said to me was that "your assistant is rude, are you as rude as your assistant?" I was a bit thrown off by the comment and knew my assistant was not rude.
Then the voice said "I want to see your listing." I asked which one? "They said how many do you have?" I said 6, they said all of them. Can we go this afternoon?" Next I started the qualifying question. Like WHAT IS YOUR NAME? "I am not telling you my name". ARE YOU WORKING WITH AN AGENT? - thinking please say yes!! " No, I just want to deal with the listing agent." HAVE YOU TALKED TO A LENDER? "Yes, I can buy whatever I want."
Now I am starting to get annoyed but want to be polite about getting off the phone. So I ask one more time what is your name? And the little high pitched accent voice says Chris Kelley. Chris is an agent in my office who is the biggest prankster. I have caught him before, but this was the best he has pulled on me.
He was good too, his answers and demands were all of the pet peeves that we all scoff at in our industry. It was funny, I was totally punked.
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