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Old 11th August 2012   #31
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I pretty much let calls go to voicemail after 9 pm. Once, I got a call at 3 am and I returned the call around 10 am. We set up a session but he was a no show and did not contact me to explain his absence.

A few days after the session date he called the owner to set up a new session. The owner then called me to call him and find out what we could do for him and we discussed what already happened. With the owner's consent the following took place.

I called and asked why he missed his session and his answer was a lack of funding. My reply was an explanation that an advance notice of session cancellation is courteous and that we were sorry but we were not interested in working with him. He then called the owner and tried to explain that I told him he could have a session the following day at 5:30 pm. I had already called to owner again to describe the conversation with the rejected individual so that didnt quite go as the individual expected.

Maybe, I should have been more blunt?



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To tell a potential client we were not interested. I keep the owner in the loop since he owns the business. Especially, since the potential client called him directly.

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maybe he thought he was going to get an answering machine, and you unfortuantely answered and he just assumed.. "hey cool!! this guys all coked up at 4am too!! well be perfect together!!!"
This seem very logical for someone jacked up and not wanting to forget, but instead of grabbing paper just makes the call...
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I don't believe Thomas ever said he wasn't...
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Crystal Meth?? "I,I just want to be famous", yes you and every 12-year old girl. Tell him to get into gay porn, I am sure he would rise fast..
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maybe he thought he was going to get an answering machine, and you unfortuantely answered and he just assumed.. "hey cool!! this guys all coked up at 4am too!! well be perfect together!!!"
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I get a lot of calls from people looking for recording studios which we are not and we have never advertised our studio as a recording studio but in some directory somewhere our studio got listed as a recording studio so now we are getting calls from lots of teeny boppers looking to make it big. You should hear some of their phone calls. This is typical..." Hey I wants to be famous so I was thinking I would come over and you could record me and then makes me a 1000 CDs and I could sell them and then pay you" or " I am the best thing since MJ and I know I can make it big so I was hoping you would back me and front me some money so I can become as famous as MJ" or "Gee my choir director in my church says I have the the vocal gift so I want you to record me and then I can become another star like <insert name of famous singer>." This is endless and would be really funny if it was not a big waste my time. Calls during the day are OK but calls at 4:17 am are over the limits of decency.
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But I get most of my best inspiration at 4:17am. ;-) From this thread, it seems to me there's a niche market for studios open at that hour. Gotta be some money in that somewhere.
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Let me guess.....he was a rapper?
Took everything in me not to burst out laughing in my quiet corporate office setting of a job.


Sadly, I know plenty of people who would do that just to be THAT guy and make all their friends laugh while they're out at the bar.

Charge him double. Convenience fee?
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