What was your best sale ever?

I was working for a conglomerate, as in Time Life Warner as their sales agent with 8 sub agents under me. We were placing so many orders that bells rang warning signals in their head offices, they "sensed something was up", and guessed that [maybe] we were simply taking addresses out of the phone book and making up false orders in order to claim the commission. They did ring some of our clients on the telephone numbers given by us and asked them some "fishing questions" to determine why and how they had placed an order with us, I do not know how many they called but surprise-surprise all the orders they checked, checked out clean.

Even though they appeared to be genuine - surely they couldn't be, it just wasn't possible they thought. So they sent a security officer to see us. I make him sound like an ex FBI man. or ex-Policeman but he certainly wasn't. This person arrived at our offices in a rather foul mood, he spoke to one of our office workers as if she was dirt with something to hide, he asked her what she did, so she showed him her job which was basically booking the orders into ledgers, and keeping track of various payments and installations. She showed him the orders she was working on and all the supporting documentation received from our sales reps. He was not impressed, even though it was fairly obvious that none of the three girls in the office were lying, or had anything to hide.

He then questioned me, I explained briefly what I/ we did, I also told him that I myself was Chief Salesmen and Bottle Washer. In a rather cocky-manner he asked me to prove it, I knew what he meant but pretended I didn't. So I asked him sweetly; "How exactly did he want me to prove it", knowing full well what was meant and coming, true enough he said "Would you mind if we go out somewhere selling together and lets see HOW YOU operate. I was agreeable to this so we set off in his car. He drove maybe 3 miles and pulled up at the corner of a typical long street of houses, he asked me [as if I was the village idiot] "Did I think I could sell to any of these houesholders"? I said I thought I could and tried to appear rather James Bondish and nonchalent. Bond, James Bond.

Together we knocked on the first door, the householder came out, and within 4 minutes he was getting signed up, name x address, bank account, and direct debit forms completed. We then knocked on another 11 doors and took 10 orders. The final total was 12 doors knocked, I out [unoccupied] and 11 sales. So I had 11 sales out of 11 contacts. At some stage he said to me "You don't even ask them if they want it, you just go ahead and sign them up, he mumbled something about USING THE ASSUMPTION CLOSE, and drove off saying he'd tell Head Office he was satisified eveything was okay and that they need have no fears. I need to add we were doing 500-600 orders a week, and I myself was accomplishing about 100+ of these per week. I have kept this post brief, but even today it pleases me no end at how we taught this man a lesson. BOB ENGLAND UK

For whats its worth my best quick spell was a 25 orders in about 2 hours. Like snooker, poker and reckoning the odds, selling can become an highly instinctive way of making a living.