Door to Door sales people
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Problem we're getting at the moment is the massive influx of Eastern European chaps selling door-to-door "art", I'm all for free enterprise... just not on my doorstep.
The main issue with the above is most of them only know how to say "My name is...", a couple of chaps had cue cards! Sign language needed maybe...?
The main issue with the above is most of them only know how to say "My name is...", a couple of chaps had cue cards! Sign language needed maybe...?
Haha, I had them once. "I'm trying to get to Uni and am selling art" or something...
Put a sticker on your door saying "ABSOLUTELY NO SALESMEN UNLESS AN APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED", and put it around eye-level... surely that'll get rid of them!
Put a sticker on your door saying "ABSOLUTELY NO SALESMEN UNLESS AN APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED", and put it around eye-level... surely that'll get rid of them!
Please don't take this the wrong way, but what you're referring to is called coprolalia. Suffering from Tourette's Syndrome is far from a laughing matter. It's a horrible condition that I wouldn't wish on anybody.
I don't get any sales people to my door anymore, the last one I opened window next to the front door, asked them what they wanted (it was some plank from NTL a year or so ago), said "Hold on til I find my keys", spent around 10 minutes getting ready to go out, wandered out of the back door, up the alley an greeted him (and his expectant face) with a "NTL? Oh, no thanks" got in the car and drove off.
Bill Bailey did a joke about that on his Part Troll tour.
"My first job was selling doors, door to door. That's a tough job, innit? 'Ding-Dong, can I interest you in a- **** you've got one.'!"
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Silly as that might sound to some people, it does make sense. I've been contemplating an electronic system which would allow the gate to be opened from outside only between the hours of 8am and 1pm, which is the range for my postie. If outside of those hours, a code must be entered (which I would tell to all my friends and my next-door neighbours).
As well as eliminating most unwanted callers, it should also rid me of virtually all junkmail, as it mostly comes in the afternoon and evening. I'm sure there will be the occasional git who will slip it under the gate...so I'll put some sort of bristle guard on it...or lob it over the gate, in which case I'll have to put up wit it.
well.... i was a d-2-d salesman for BG, went selling cars recently for a big dealership but the money was not in it and now im going 'back on the knocker' starting from monday (but with a BG rival). Feel free to give me some stick . . . its like water of a ducks back!
Generally I greet them, and then after hearing their introduction, I politely decline any product/service they have offered in return for money. They then retreat from my premises without fuss, and I get on with my day.
No problem there!
No problem there!
So you tell us - how do we get rid of you or deter you from even knocking?
well, i cant speak for the rest of the guys and gals that do it (and there are some genuinely nice folks that do this job) but a polite thankyou always for me and im on my way. Some are obviously not as easy to get rid of and gives it a bad name.
You robbed vunerable old women? I should've known!!
Ive always found that a lot of the energy sales people are a different breed to the double glazing knockers.
In my British Gas team there was a 65 year old ex director of Rolls Royce, a retired ex pub landlord, a guy who used to be a big boss at pilkingtons, a very respectable young lady and the boss was one of the softest , nicest blokes you could ever meet and i still keep in contact to this day.
All energy sales people have to have an energysure badge which means they uphold good practice in the industry. If this badge gets taken of you then you can no longer do that job for ANY of the energy companies not just the one you was working for.
In my British Gas team there was a 65 year old ex director of Rolls Royce, a retired ex pub landlord, a guy who used to be a big boss at pilkingtons, a very respectable young lady and the boss was one of the softest , nicest blokes you could ever meet and i still keep in contact to this day.
All energy sales people have to have an energysure badge which means they uphold good practice in the industry. If this badge gets taken of you then you can no longer do that job for ANY of the energy companies not just the one you was working for.