513-564-9000

Sterling Buying Group asking for the CFO.  I told her since we don't sell to the public we don't accept credit cards

Asked for our Company's President by name.  When I told the caller who identified herself as Jennifer and declined to tell me who she was with, that our president wasn't available, she asked if she had voicemail.  I asked what the call was in regards to and she said she'd rather not say.  I told her I'd be happy to take a message and she wondered why she couldn't leave a voice mail (I was thinking because our President is too busy to listen to your babble on the phone) I offered again to take a message.  She asked for my name, which I gave to her and she hung up.

Same here. Answered all my questions with more questions. Someone calls me, won't identify themselves and won't answer my questions, I  hang up on them.

I looked up the company and they are cold calling wanting to sell their "B2B Merchant Services" to your CFO, I stupidly put her through to my CFO without thinking. He hates those Merchant Services cold calls so next time I'm going to make sure I have my coffee in the morning so I'm thinking clearly.

Left me two voice mail messages in one day.  Identified herself as Julie from Sterling Buying Group and left her telephone number and extension as (888) 564-9564 but the number she was calling from is actually (513) 564-9000.  No message other than her telephone number and extension. I did not return either call. Thanks everyone... for sharing!

They're name is kind of deceptive. 'Sterling Buying' sounds as though they buy used scrap and parts (which we get calls for all the time) but no, they're more merchant services crap.
I mean, they waste their time calling here, since we don't dabble in amounts small enough for credit card readers.

But don't try telling them that.

After the 4th call in a row from Sterling, I figured it's time to post again. Like 'SRA' above said, they answered me with questions. They asked for fairly common names (none of which are actual people here). Every time I'd say, "We don't have anyone with that name," he'd question me.
Are sure sure?
Are you new?
Is there someone else who would know for sure?

Yeah. Me.

I asked them last time to remove us from their calling list, but clearly they didn't listen.

After a couple more calls from them I told her my CFO wasn't interested and then she said "Well who would that be?!" (she didn't know his name, just calling for Controller) I told her "it doesn't matter what his name is, take us off your list!!"... then they waited a good 10 months before calling again, where I politely informed them that we had asked to not be called by their company... now today I get a call from a different number but same company... just because your number changes doesn't mean my answer does!!!

Repeated calls asking for me by name, I do not deal with salespeople.  Not enough time in the day for their crap.  Make it stop!

CID showed STERLING BUYING - Apparently Sterling Buying Group.  Evidently has something to do with credit card processing.  Only the thousandth call in the past 12 months we've received from these types.  This one doesn't even have its own website.  Dumped in the voicemail of no return calls.