Con artist?

06 Aug 2009 12 Comments (Including 4 Discussion Threads)

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It was 4th August 2009, 5.20pm and I was about to reach Mr. Chin’s house a 3rd/4th stage colon can­cer sur­vival hero 4 years ago! Today, He is well and healthy! This man is quite a story!

Just as I turn­ing left and park­ing my car my phone rang! +8613678941853 dis­play on the screen.

I have to men­tion that my inter­est and atten­tion is to the see Mr. Chin and to hear his story to help some one dear to us. There­fore, I am not pre­pared to pick up a call that may some how too good to be true!

A very friendly yet seri­ous in his own way, He call me by my sur­name. “Mr. Jong, I’m call­ing from Bei­jing and I like to see if you could help or inter­ested in my busi­ness! Are you con­ve­nience to talk?”

I told him I’m dri­ving and not con­ve­nience. He still very friendly and prob­a­bly with busi­ness inten­tion emo­tion and a smile, he said “I see, why don’t you give me a call back once you are free”

Very spon­ta­neous and a child­ish act­ing, feel­ing dis­please and uncom­fort­able yet curi­ous I told him “didn’t you call from Bei­jing and for me to call you back it would cost a bomb!”

Right there he shoots me deep and hard! Today, I can still feel the pain and I am writ­ing this piece of shit to ease the pain!

He said, “Cost a bomb? I have a big busi­ness to runs and I think you are not a RELIABLE BUSINESS MAN TO HELP MY INSURANCE NEEDS!”

I was shocked and again with my child­ish act­ing try­ing to look for the excuses to cover my hole and that’s where I notice I talk to a noise­less phone and myself! HE BLOODY CUT ME OFF!

Most of you should know that I am an insur­ance agent by now!

Here’s a few seri­ous questions

  1. Does this guy gen­uine? Did he being sincere?
  2. How did he know my name? My busi­ness? (I only met one Bei­jing lady friend last 2 weeks. The irony – she is from Bei­jing and I never gave her my con­tact but she does know my busi­ness but this can­not be too coincident!)
  3. Should I sus­pect that this is a gen­uine call and I have just lost a busi­ness pro­posal, prob­a­bly cost millions?
  4. If he is gen­uine why did he com­mand me to call back? I have been doing sales all my life, I have never asked my cus­tomer or my poten­tial client or any big bosses to call me back with the inter­est I have on them! My expec­ta­tion maybe wrong – you can’t always hope peo­ple will treat you back the same way you treat other! Did he means well by ask­ing me to call back or he is using his psy­cho to trick me to call back into believ­ing and agree­ing on some­thing I may not intend to com­mit when I did call back?

I do not like being a loser, los­ing a busi­ness pro­posal caught with my pants down on a wrong tim­ing! I can hon­estly tell you, what he point out partly true and I just can’t help myself to ignore the remark.

For bet­ter or worse, I should have use a proper and pro­fes­sional man­ner in show­ing no inter­est to his unspe­cific inten­tion or interest.

Morale of the story, always be pre­pared for your worse sit­u­a­tion every sec­ond to secure the golden opportunity.

I learn a great deal of lesson!

(I would really appre­ci­ate if you could take some­time to leave your con­cern on the com­ments col­umn below)

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  1. Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"
    Aug 08, 2009 @ 01:29:30

    Seems that what you can expect from life is that you can never expect any­thing! You know, I do the same good job every day with­out fail. You would think that reac­tions from cus­tomers and man­age­ment would be the same, right? Wrong …
    I could do the same great ser­vive Mon­day and Tues­day, yet then get praise form one cus­tomer, and grief from the Tues­day cus­tomer. I have learned the SOME peo­ple are never sat­i­fied … with any­thing. This is inter­est­ing because I see my cus­tomers in their home set­tings deal­ing with oth­ers and fam­ily as well. Guess what … they are a pain in the &^%$#!! to everyone.

    Moral to this story?

    You can do your best in life, and that’s where it ends. Pleas­ing the masses is just quite impos­si­ble to do all the time. Over my many years it has behooved me to real­ize this, and accept what comes at any given time. Life lessons dic­tate that one must be pre­pared for suc­cess and failure.

    We do our best, and learn from each day ;-)

    Best wishes from the other side of the planet!
    Speedy­Cat

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    • Netster
      Aug 11, 2009 @ 00:36:20

      Hi Speedy­cat!

      My sin­cere apol­ogy for the delay in reply­ing your com­ment. (To Daisy as well)

      I guess our sto­ries does share some sim­i­lar­ity although we are 8 — 12 (maybe 24) hours apart!

      I totally agreed with you on your com­ments. In fact I work so hard but earn as less these day and so that’s where the frus­tra­tion came from. But when things hap­pen, with unpre­pared sit­u­a­tion — I blame myself for not work­ing hard enough and that I think I am being foolish!

      You know, I always believe in what I believe — I believe if I work hard, my wish will come true! Maybe it will hap­pen in a dif­fer­ent way but I’ll still achieve my goal no mat­ter how or what route I take.

      That one sin­gle phone call! — Could be that alter­na­tive route to my goal! (You just never know, you know)

      It leaves me high and dry now. Feel­ing so bloody empty.

      So I hope it was just a con artist calls and there’s no Cin­derella story or I’ll be regret­ting it for the rest of my life.

      I don’t care if I fail but I really care and mind for not even got the chance to fail!

      But I’ll take your advice “We do our best, and learn from each day”

      That’s the best advice I ever need!

      Thank you xoxo
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  2. Daisy
    Aug 09, 2009 @ 07:07:33

    Hi Net­ster! I think that the best thing to do in this case is just put this behind you and look ahead. Whether or not he really would have been a big account for you, you did what you thought was best at the time. It would have cost you to call him back, and it would have been a risk on your part to call him back because you didn’t know whether or not he really would have become a cus­tomer for you or not. Like Speedy said, you can’t please every­one all the time no mat­ter what you do. All you can do is what you think is right at any par­tic­u­lar time. When peo­ple are rude to me at the library, I try not to take it per­son­ally. Some­times I think maybe they are just hav­ing a bad day, and I hap­pen to be the one they take that frus­tra­tion out on. If after think­ing it over, you feel that he was right, you can always react dif­fer­ently the next time. Hope you are hav­ing a good week­end. :)
    Daisy´s last blog ..Corn, Lace, a Cas­tle In the Coun­try, and More My ComLuv Profile

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    • Netster
      Aug 11, 2009 @ 00:44:05

      Hello Daisy!

      Thank you for tak­ing your time to comment!

      Thank you for mak­ing me feel­ing bet­ter, I think you are right when you said “All you can do is what you think is right at any par­tic­u­lar time”

      I am always suck at tim­ing! I still fail to pri­or­i­tize my work or rou­tine. I am like super­men! will do every­thing If I can!

      I learn my les­son well! Thank you for shar­ing and I really appre­ci­ate you and Speedy for tak­ing your time to fix me!

      God bless xoxo
      Netster´s last blog ..Con artist? My ComLuv Profile

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  3. laketrees
    Aug 13, 2009 @ 09:35:26

    ahhh Net­ster
    some­times peo­ple can be so rude!!!
    I wouldn’t have phoned back!!
    I think it is exceed­ingly rude of your client to expect you to phone back…
    I get irri­tated when peo­ple call and then put me on hold…
    take some deep breaths and stay happy :)
    you deserve to Mr Jong ;)
    ps Char­lie says thank you for your lovely Birth­day Greet­ing :)
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    • Netster
      Aug 13, 2009 @ 10:12:59

      MOm­m­m­m­mmm!!!!

      hahah­haha really happy to see you here! I read that you are super busy and still and yet you are here com­ment­ing! I love you!!! hug hug

      I will take the deep breaths and put the smile on my face :) I’ll remem­ber what you said “I deserved it!” Yes, I deserved it!

      Ohhh I love Char­lie! I am sure she will have a great birth­day party this week­end! please don’t for­get to take pho­tos and share it with us! woohooo!!!! muck muck!

      Thank you for your kind encour­age­ments and sup­ports muck muck muck!!!

      XXOO xoxo
      Netster´s last blog ..Con artist? My ComLuv Profile

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  4. Kilauea Poetry
    Aug 16, 2009 @ 01:36:50

    I’d put it behind you cause maybe it wasn’t meant to be? Ini­tially, I thought if you could find a bit of info on him..but don’t be too hard on your­self– looks like oth­ers share the same sen­ti­ment. Also, your first reaction..what if it came out of a gut feel­ing? Seems we always have to make per­sonal adjust­ments along the way but it looks like your watch­ing your­self too– pos­i­tive. Later, this guy could really prove to be a pain! All your hard work won’t be in vain! Have a won­der­ful week­end over there Nester!
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    • Netster
      Aug 17, 2009 @ 15:14:16

      Hi Gina :)

      Thank you so much for your visit. You really made my day!

      You know, So long I have friends like Speedy, Kim, Daisy and you; giv­ing me the opin­ions and advises I think I will never go wrong!

      Yes, I guess it just not meant to be :) I think it’s prob­a­bly for a rea­son and it for a good rea­son — for what­ever rea­son :) xoxo

      I really enjoy my week­end, thank you! got some sales over the week­end and a good friend of mine ask me to visit his church. :)

      You have a great week­end too, Gina!

      XOXO
      Netster´s last blog ..Con artist? My ComLuv Profile

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  5. laketrees
    Aug 23, 2009 @ 18:11:18

    haha Net­ster…
    will post pics this Mon­day :)
    hope you are hav­ing a great week­end
    xxx Kim aka Mom :)
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  6. Netster
    Aug 23, 2009 @ 18:21:39

    MOm­m­mmm xoxoxoxox!!!!

    Pics? wow okay I’ll be wait­ing hehe­he­he­heh :)

    I hope you had a great week­end too!

    So happy to see you xox­oxo!!!
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  7. Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"
    Aug 23, 2009 @ 20:49:29

    Rid­ing through here on my blog­ging bike .… BEEP BEEP !!!!
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  8. Netster
    Aug 23, 2009 @ 22:08:41

    Weeeeeeeee I want to take the ride with you!!!!!! BEEP BEEP!!!!!!

    Wooooooooooooooo
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