Door to Door sales people
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Put a lock on your gate.
Answer the door nekkid covered in blood with the body of a dead chicken in your hand.
Worked for me
pffff ahahhaa thats great
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Terrace house with no front garden or gate
In that case, when they knock on your door, open your letterbox and wee on their shoes.
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There's not many door-to-door salesmen in Belfast.
The worst I get is those Avon people looking for their catalogues back. Why they shove them through everyone's door in a street is beyond me. Regardless, the dog rather likes eating them. They leave somewhat disappointed I think.
The worst I get is those Avon people looking for their catalogues back. Why they shove them through everyone's door in a street is beyond me. Regardless, the dog rather likes eating them. They leave somewhat disappointed I think.
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I have found a simple but firm "No thank you" suffices, and guaranteed they will still try but another "No thank you" usually sends them on their way. A third "No thank you" is sometimes called for only if they are realy insistent.I just answer and tell them straight out that I'm not at all interested in their services, and close the door on them lol. Fun to be rude some times
I don't consider it rude to interrupt them (about the only time it isn't rude) so throw it in as/when you can to get them off balance
Say nothing else and they realise you mean it..I seem to recall you can get a pack from your local police station with those stick-on/peel-off stickers you can put on your door, basically says something along the lines of 'We do not buy from Door to door salesman and are not interested in religious discussions. Any caller or person not known will undergo a lengthy identification process'.
If you still get a caller, ask for their ID and company name, then say you want to go and verify who they are with their company. Disappear off for 15 minutes and make a cuppa, then go back and say the company has no record of them.
If you still get a caller, ask for their ID and company name, then say you want to go and verify who they are with their company. Disappear off for 15 minutes and make a cuppa, then go back and say the company has no record of them.
1st A polite no thank you.
2nd Reinforce that fact that I have said no, telling them that if i have to say now a third time I will not be so polite.
3rd Be as rude as I like point out that they were warned and if they don't like it they should have listened on the other 2 occasions they had the chance.
You would be amazed how many times I have got to number 3.
Also point out that the ability to sell also requires the ability to listen.
We had a guy who dropped of the Avon catalogue, he was never asked to do so, a couple of times we had just put it in the bin, one day he saw me and asked me for it and when I told him that I didn't have it he proceeded to moan about he he needed it and questioned why we had done so.
I then pointed out that we have never asked him to drop one off, he just kept whining that he needed, at this point I got the hump and just came out and said that I didn't have his magazine and that was that.
This wasn't enough for him, he was going to mark us of his list, a list we didn't ask to be on, a list we didn't want to be on but before he was prepared to do that he needed the catalogue back.
Well at this point he got told in no uncertain terms to go away.
2nd Reinforce that fact that I have said no, telling them that if i have to say now a third time I will not be so polite.
3rd Be as rude as I like point out that they were warned and if they don't like it they should have listened on the other 2 occasions they had the chance.
You would be amazed how many times I have got to number 3.
Also point out that the ability to sell also requires the ability to listen.
We had a guy who dropped of the Avon catalogue, he was never asked to do so, a couple of times we had just put it in the bin, one day he saw me and asked me for it and when I told him that I didn't have it he proceeded to moan about he he needed it and questioned why we had done so.
I then pointed out that we have never asked him to drop one off, he just kept whining that he needed, at this point I got the hump and just came out and said that I didn't have his magazine and that was that.
This wasn't enough for him, he was going to mark us of his list, a list we didn't ask to be on, a list we didn't want to be on but before he was prepared to do that he needed the catalogue back.
Well at this point he got told in no uncertain terms to go away.
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I love how miserable we are in here - it's great
I've been known to talk to people in the past.... but the way I see it someone at my door better be bringing me a present or parcel or I put the dog down (as in, I'll be holding her I'm not calling her fat or having her killed).
I've been known to talk to people in the past.... but the way I see it someone at my door better be bringing me a present or parcel or I put the dog down (as in, I'll be holding her
I'm not calling her fat or having her killed).1. Speak in a different language and make out you have no idea what there saying
2. Open the door and say "no thank you" closing the door before they can say anything.
3. if you want to annoy them ask for ID, fake interest, waste there time.. I'm sure many people have done it before.
4. Don't answer.
5. Open the door with a large knife in your hand - scare tactics ***!
2. Open the door and say "no thank you" closing the door before they can say anything.
3. if you want to annoy them ask for ID, fake interest, waste there time.. I'm sure many people have done it before.
4. Don't answer.
5. Open the door with a large knife in your hand - scare tactics ***!