Winners Beware
Picture inspired - Telemarketing call27 total reviews
Comment from Jewell McChesney
You created such a well-written poetic dialogue here! I could easily feel the emotion and the frustration of the writer. Well done! Did you very good job telling them no!
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You created such a well-written poetic dialogue here! I could easily feel the emotion and the frustration of the writer. Well done! Did you very good job telling them no!
Comment Written 12-Aug-2013
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2013
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Thank you so much for the review and nice comments on this poem.
I appreciate you reading and commenting.
Beth
Comment from JeanneHP
Love your "Dr. Seuss" cadence type poem. Very well written and rhymed. You sure have gotten the whole thing right from first to last stanza. Do I have a story to tell you!! :-)
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Love your "Dr. Seuss" cadence type poem. Very well written and rhymed. You sure have gotten the whole thing right from first to last stanza. Do I have a story to tell you!! :-)
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you Jeanne, I really appreciate the review and comments.
I'm glad you liked this poem.
Beth
Comment from Black_Oxygen
Well Done ~ Beth
This is a fun read. The reader-friendly language makes
it easy to comprehend. The rhymes are not forced and
it flows smoothly. The attached photo is the perfect
accent to enhance the message. Thank You for your
creation.
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Well Done ~ Beth
This is a fun read. The reader-friendly language makes
it easy to comprehend. The rhymes are not forced and
it flows smoothly. The attached photo is the perfect
accent to enhance the message. Thank You for your
creation.
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you so much for the review and nice comments. I'm glad you thought this fun to read.
Beth
Comment from Spitfire
This is a fun read. It skips along so chipper with the telemarketers cheery but phony voice and then the mood changes with the attack of the vicitm. One tip. Don't close your quotatation marks even after a stanza if the same person is still speaking in the next. The last four stanza seem be one speaker hence one quotation mark at the beginning of "I said
and ending with stoke."
Hope that makes sense.
Those timeshares seemed a big con game to me. Who wants to go to the same place every year and who knows what creeps rent before you. Yuck.
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2013
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This is a fun read. It skips along so chipper with the telemarketers cheery but phony voice and then the mood changes with the attack of the vicitm. One tip. Don't close your quotatation marks even after a stanza if the same person is still speaking in the next. The last four stanza seem be one speaker hence one quotation mark at the beginning of "I said
and ending with stoke."
Hope that makes sense.
Those timeshares seemed a big con game to me. Who wants to go to the same place every year and who knows what creeps rent before you. Yuck.
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2013
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Thank you for the review and comments and the tip about the quotes. I wasn't sure about that but I've fixed it.
I can't see why some people like the timeshares. I think they just cave to high pressure and then have to make the best of it.
Beth
Comment from Cry the Vile Rebel
Well, you are right, the guy in the picture is not whispering sweet nothings into that phone ; )
I guess in the time-share business "free" does not men "obligation free" and your time invested into enduring hard-sales pitches should not be counted as cost.
My sister hands the phone to her two year old, that or just lays it on the counter and walks away. That image somehow brings a smile to my face.
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2013
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Well, you are right, the guy in the picture is not whispering sweet nothings into that phone ; )
I guess in the time-share business "free" does not men "obligation free" and your time invested into enduring hard-sales pitches should not be counted as cost.
My sister hands the phone to her two year old, that or just lays it on the counter and walks away. That image somehow brings a smile to my face.
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you so much for the review and funny comments. I like the idea of giving the phone to a two-year-old. I've laid it down before too.
Beth
Comment from Evelyn Fort Stewart
I agree with you 100%...this is a gimmick and a rip-off in every way. I love caller ID because it helps me avoid some of these jerks. God loves you and I do too.
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I agree with you 100%...this is a gimmick and a rip-off in every way. I love caller ID because it helps me avoid some of these jerks. God loves you and I do too.
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you Evelyn. I really appreciate the review and comments. I sure that caller ID too.
Beth
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I hate telemarketers. There's no way to get rid of them. I enjoyed reading your poem and I'm sure that man isn't using kind language. Good job.
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I hate telemarketers. There's no way to get rid of them. I enjoyed reading your poem and I'm sure that man isn't using kind language. Good job.
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you Barbara. There is a national Do Not Call Registry which helps so but they still see to get through. I appreciate the review and comments.
Beth
Comment from Sankey
love to give this a Six plus or The even right on! Fortunately we are on Do Not Call Register so we only get Charity calls.
I know what you mean about Time Share I nearly got caught with that too. I was wanting to put this in my Bookcase but dunno where it went oh well great reading Congrat7ulations Great Rant hehe!
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love to give this a Six plus or The even right on! Fortunately we are on Do Not Call Register so we only get Charity calls.
I know what you mean about Time Share I nearly got caught with that too. I was wanting to put this in my Bookcase but dunno where it went oh well great reading Congrat7ulations Great Rant hehe!
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you so much for the six star review. I really appreciate you reading this and your comments. I'm supposed to be on that Do Not Call Register too but for some reason it doesnt' seem to be working.
Beth
Comment from adewpearl
a week's vacation - add the apostrophe
solid rhyming couplets
I like the back and forth of the dialogue as the salesperson is insistent and the potential customer grows more and more annoyed
strong social commentary - I hate to think of how many people get suckered in by these scams
Brooke
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a week's vacation - add the apostrophe
solid rhyming couplets
I like the back and forth of the dialogue as the salesperson is insistent and the potential customer grows more and more annoyed
strong social commentary - I hate to think of how many people get suckered in by these scams
Brooke
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2013
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Thank you Brook. I really appreciate your review. You're right about many being suckered. I've been to some of there sales pitches but never bought. They can make you feel you're stupid for not buying. I gone with friends to try to put some perspective into what they are being told and to talk the down when they are tempted to buy. LOL
Beth
Comment from sweetwoodjax
this is very well written, beth, you did an excellent job wiritng this poem about the telemarketers who just won't give up. when my sister's boss was at the house praying with my mother, i got a phonecall saying we had a free medic alert system and they just needed out address. i kept saying "wait a minute, wait a minute and i was just screaming into the phone. my sister grabbed the phone and hung it up. it was a recording, i just busted out crying, embarassing myself
reply by the author on 12-Aug-2013
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this is very well written, beth, you did an excellent job wiritng this poem about the telemarketers who just won't give up. when my sister's boss was at the house praying with my mother, i got a phonecall saying we had a free medic alert system and they just needed out address. i kept saying "wait a minute, wait a minute and i was just screaming into the phone. my sister grabbed the phone and hung it up. it was a recording, i just busted out crying, embarassing myself
Comment Written 11-Aug-2013
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Thank you so much for the reviews. I get several of those Medical Alert calls a week. To me, it would make more sense to just keep your cell phone with you, than to pay to have them to monitor that thing twenty-four hours a day. The Alert is free but you have to sign up for a couple of years of monitoring service. I get calls all the time about free alarm servies too.
Beth
