sales shark
(Noun, Derogatory Slang)
Someone who works in sales, usually a call center, who will ask a potential customer questions about things that matter to them, and then use those answers to manipulate them into buying something they don't need or signing up for a payment plan.
Someone who works in sales, usually a call center, who will ask a potential customer questions about things that matter to them, and then use those answers to manipulate them into buying something they don't need or signing up for a payment plan.
"Man, I wasn't sure I'd get off the phone, that sales shark kept pressuring me to buy a landline when I only use my cell phone. I couldn't believe he said I'd need a landline 'in case something happened to my kids and they needed to call for help'. Who says that kind of thing to sell something???"
sales shark by VeryUnhappyCamper June 29, 2016
