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Old 18-04-2007, 23:15
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Hmmm... how annoyed would you be if you had taken your kids to the zoo only to have people constantly pestering you to buy sweets and chocolate for them. No wonder the women who Alan fired wasn't comfortable with this type of selling.
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Old 18-04-2007, 23:18
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Kristina really took the biscuit giving the sweet to the child and then asking for the £2.50 form the parents. I know what I would have done to her and that father was brave to challange her. I hope he didn't give her the money. Nasty woman.
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Old 18-04-2007, 23:42
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That kind of selling technique is the equivalent of Spam Email.. It's worth annoying hundreds of people if just a few buy your product.
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Old 19-04-2007, 00:18
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Originally Posted by MetalMonkey
Kristina really took the biscuit giving the sweet to the child and then asking for the £2.50 form the parents. I know what I would have done to her and that father was brave to challange her. I hope he didn't give her the money. Nasty woman.
The guy from Woolworths on You're Fired wasn't too keen on that technique either.
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Old 19-04-2007, 00:50
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Haven't seen the programme yet, but from what I remember of the clip on 'You're Fired' Kristina asked the child 'Would you like a lolly?' and gave the lolly to the child without any mention of cost until the child was actually holding the lolly. I reckon that any court of law would say that she had effectively gifted the lolly to the child, especially as the child is a minor, so I do hope that the father refused to pay.
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Old 19-04-2007, 10:27
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If I had taken kids to a zoo or some other attraction, and people were constantly pestering me to buy sweets and chocolate I would complain to the management lol.
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Old 19-04-2007, 10:48
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I can only assume the zoo manager didn't see her do it - no way would they have approved of it!
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Old 19-04-2007, 10:54
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bit rich the guy from Woolworths complaining when they have sweets in exactly the perfect position for children to see them and want them. Kristina may not have adopted the most PC approach but this task was about making the most amount of money and not about selling the right way
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Old 19-04-2007, 11:03
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Well I certainly don't consider that the right way, and I would have made that clear to her and the Zoo management.
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Old 19-04-2007, 11:06
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I would not have been impressed if I had been pestered 4 or 5 times in one day to buy sweets.
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Old 19-04-2007, 12:18
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Originally Posted by speckledjim
bit rich the guy from Woolworths complaining when they have sweets in exactly the perfect position for children to see them and want them.
That's a bit different from actually giving the child the sweet then asking for money.
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Old 19-04-2007, 13:06
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Originally Posted by MetalMonkey
Kristina really took the biscuit giving the sweet to the child and then asking for the £2.50 form the parents. I know what I would have done to her and that father was brave to challange her. I hope he didn't give her the money. Nasty woman.
If that was my child i would have said
"thank the nice lady for the present" and walked off, she gave it to the child free of charge and i would love to have seen her trying to steal chocolate from a toddler"
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Old 19-04-2007, 13:09
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Originally Posted by Shrike
I can only assume the zoo manager didn't see her do it - no way would they have approved of it!

I thought that too and I kept wondering if that was going to come back to bite them. The father was clearly unhappy with the sales technique - he should have complained
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Old 19-04-2007, 13:12
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Originally Posted by Claret Zip
I thought that too and I kept wondering if that was going to come back to bite them. The father was clearly unhappy with the sales technique - he should have complained
I think they got away with it because it was filmed, the father did start coming over to confront her, but when the camera focused on him he faltered and said it was a very cheeky thing to do. I suspect that he has something stronger in mind to say before he was filmed directly!
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Old 19-04-2007, 13:12
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Originally Posted by yaruar
If that was my child i would have said
"thank the nice lady for the present" and walked off, she gave it to the child free of charge and i would love to have seen her trying to steal chocolate from a toddler"

Oh classic!
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Old 19-04-2007, 13:15
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Originally Posted by yaruar
If that was my child i would have said
"thank the nice lady for the present" and walked off, she gave it to the child free of charge and i would love to have seen her trying to steal chocolate from a toddler"
I said much the same, if they'd have done that to my children I would have told them to say thank you and then wandered off. If they'd have tried to take it off my youngest we'd be on every clip show going with a tantrum to end all tantrums. I then would have gone to the Zoo Management and complained about people harrassing my family. There is no way I would have paid for something that I had not asked for.
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Old 19-04-2007, 17:23
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Originally Posted by yaruar
If that was my child i would have said
"thank the nice lady for the present" and walked off, she gave it to the child free of charge and i would love to have seen her trying to steal chocolate from a toddler"

Or

say to the child "No. Don't talk to strangers; don't take sweets from strangers" and immediately tell the zoo management that they had a group of adults giving sweets to children, and filming them, without their parents' consent
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Old 20-04-2007, 13:41
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How many of the remaining cotestants have children? Very few I would guess from their general selling technique. If either of this weeks team leaders had been parents I bet they would have considered a 'healthy' sweet option and not advocated a hard sell technique. I'm surprised SAS didn't pick up on this last bit as it does seem to be some-what underhand and verging on the illegal. Then again he ignored Tre's blatant attempt to bargain with the lolly stick man by 'reducing VAT'!
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Old 20-04-2007, 13:45
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If someone had pulled a stunt like that on me I would have taken the lollie off the child and handed it back to her and listerned to the screaming - kids are always balling about something anyway you get used to the noise!

I think the management of London Zoo would have got a complaint as well.
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Old 20-04-2007, 15:55
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I have a big problem with Kristina - that's two tasks now where I think her ethics have been seriously suspect and yet amazingly, she has escaped any censure from anyone (the pound a kiss was her idea)
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Old 20-04-2007, 15:57
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Originally Posted by Assa2
How many of the remaining cotestants have children? Very few I would guess from their general selling technique. If either of this weeks team leaders had been parents I bet they would have considered a 'healthy' sweet option and not advocated a hard sell technique. I'm surprised SAS didn't pick up on this last bit as it does seem to be some-what underhand and verging on the illegal. Then again he ignored Tre's blatant attempt to bargain with the lolly stick man by 'reducing VAT'!
The "lady" in question, Kristina, is a mother which is one of the reasons I was really annoyed by what she had done. Both Katie and Jadine are also mothers. Don't know about the rest of them.
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Old 20-04-2007, 18:22
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Originally Posted by MetalMonkey
The "lady" in question, Kristina, is a mother which is one of the reasons I was really annoyed by what she had done. Both Katie and Jadine are also mothers. Don't know about the rest of them.
Natalie is one as well.
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