Had to share this cuz I think it's really funny.
A year ago FI and I had a meeting with a DJ company. We drove an hour and a half to get there. They didn't show up. One of the DJs called me, really apologetic. (Apparently the person who scheduled the appointment with me was out of the country and FORGOT to tell anyone to come meet me). Ok, no big deal. I get that mistakes happen. So we went down the street to a bar, had a few drinks and a snack, and waited a couple hours on the DJ who called me to get to their office so we could then meet.
We meet with her, and she tells us their "base package" starts at $1,400. She says this includes monogrammed lighting, up-lighting, colored lighting, concert lighting, and a light jockey-- yes a person called a light jockey--, plus 8 hours of service. I kept trying to explain to her that literally ALL we wanted was JUST music. Keep it simple. She didn't get it. Ugh.
FI and I leave the meeting and decide the price is too high and we absolutely do not want any of those extras. I e-mail the lady and tell her that we do not want any of the lighting or the light jockey person or any of it, and we need less hours of service because we're also having a live band. So can we get a lower price, considering this? (And, ahem, considering you guys blew off our meeting?) She offered to take off something like $100 which still made them significantly more money than any other DJ in the area.
Then she calls to follow-up and I let her know we would not be using their service. Just too pricey. Right after that, the other DJ (who had blown off our meeting) called me to follow-up. He left a voicemail and said "Just wanted to see if you were interested in booking us for your wedding on---" and he said the WRONG DATE. lol.
In tandem I keep getting calls from these two DJs for months (just every so often) asking me about whether or not I wanted to book them. I tell the lady AGAIN that no, we are not interested, we've decided to hire someone else. I got a call from the guy after that, and ignored it.
Now it has been a year since the original meeting with them. I just now got a voicemail from the lady! She said I need to let her know "right away" whether or not I'm still interested in hiring them, because they still have the date reserved for me and if I don't want to hire them I need to tell them so they can "open that date up for other brides." Ugh. Now I have to talk to her a third time about this?
As I was listening to the voicemail I was just laughing to myself. Get it together, people! I wanted to call back and say "I'm just not that into you. Move on!" but I will not. I will just laugh to myself and snark to you guys and probably also laugh with my FI about it because he was also baffled as to why they keep calling us.He was sitting right next to me one of the times I told her, very clearly, that we weren't hiring them. Oh well!