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Le_Petit_Lapin

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Grr...:mad:

Just had a lovely redhead come in and start chatting about things, all very flirty, and I'm thinking my lucks in today.

Then she turns round rummages in her back, turns back, and tried to sell me some cheap Ebay knock off cosmetic thing what your five year old kid would like to play with. I mean wtf does she think I'm going to do with that?

Gutted and mildly insulted I threw her off the property. Cheeky cow.

Does anyone here do this awful job? I hate you if you do. How do you sleep at night?
 
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Just last week I had a young "student" from Slovakia or some other faraway land round at my door (English language just barely comprehensible), with a series of what must have been 15-20 full size paintings (big ones as well not just the A2 size). She claims these are "Matisse inspired" masterpieces created by her and her fellow "students" back in Romania or wherever. The money raised would go towards the exhibition they were putting on apparently. Fair enough, a bit of a stretch trooping all those paintings all the way over here and trying door to door sales of all things, but still. But then she turned the paintings round and showed me them. If I'm brutally honest they look like what my 2 year old nephew would knock out at nursery. They were ****ing hideous. I shouldn't say that as I can't draw to save someone's life, but these were something else. I voiced my disapproval as such.

Now to troop them over to the UK and actually talk me into parting with my hard earned cash is one thing, but no, she insisted that she come into my house to see what I had on my walls already so she could advise on what needs replacing. She looked around the door into my hallway (without my permission) and noticed the Kandinsky I have hanging on the wall there. She said that it looked "dreary and cold" and instead held up a white canvas with six blue lines, two circles and a square. This would apparently "brighten up" the hallway. At this point I was in two minds as to whether I should be amused or insulted. I just told her that I preferred a different kind of art to a bit of paint squirted from a tube onto a bit of used canvas. But this wasn't enough. She was trying to persuade me that I was "wrong" and actually demanded a reason why her paintings weren't good enough. Now my patience was wearing thin. Ten minutes of my life I'd wasted here at this door. She then just said to me "OK I can give you these two for what I think is a brilliant price of just £100" (remember this is the sort of tat you see at boot sales for a fiver). After a rather blank stare I explained that I had a prior engagement on the telephone and had to leave to take a highly prioritised call. She still wouldn't leave, convincing me still that I "need them". I just had to close the door firmly in her face in the finish.

Made me think though as I observed her trooping from house to house with these works of "art", facing constant rejection, what some people will do for money.
 
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Steve2000 said:
Just last week I had a young "student" from Slovakia or some other faraway land round at my door (English language just barely comprehensible), with a series of what must have been 15-20 full size paintings (big ones as well not just the A2 size). She claims these are "Matisse inspired" masterpieces created by her and her fellow "students" back in Romania or wherever. The money raised would go towards the exhibition they were putting on apparently. Fair enough, a bit of a stretch trooping all those paintings all the way over here and trying door to door sales of all things, but still. But then she turned the paintings round and showed me them. If I'm brutally honest they look like what my 2 year old nephew would knock out at nursery. They were ****ing hideous. I shouldn't say that as I can't draw to save someone's life, but these were something else. I voiced my disapproval as such.

Now to troop them over to the UK and actually talk me into parting with my hard earned cash is one thing, but no, she insisted that she come into my house to see what I had on my walls already so she could advise on what needs replacing. She looked around the door into my hallway (without my permission) and noticed the Kandinsky I have hanging on the wall there. She said that it looked "dreary and cold" and instead held up a white canvas with six blue lines, two circles and a square. This would apparently "brighten up" the hallway. At this point I was in two minds as to whether I should be amused or insulted. I just told her that I preferred a different kind of art to a bit of paint squirted from a tube onto a bit of used canvas. But this wasn't enough. She was trying to persuade me that I was "wrong" and actually demanded a reason why her paintings weren't good enough. Now my patience was wearing thin. Ten minutes of my life I'd wasted here at this door. She then just said to me "OK I can give you these two for what I think is a brilliant price of just £100" (remember this is the sort of tat you see at boot sales for a fiver). After a rather blank stare I explained that I had a prior engagement on the telephone and had to leave to take a highly prioritised call. She still wouldn't leave, convincing me still that I "need them". I just had to close the door firmly in her face in the finish.

Made me think though as I observed her trooping from house to house with these works of "art", facing constant rejection, what some people will do for money.
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Why would she choose to try and sell them in Middlesbrough?
 
The best one I have heard of.

True story;


The door to door sales man entered the womens house tried to sell her the property and was chatting to him for a while. Got on fairly friendly, so he asked to use her toilet. Of course she let him, why wouldn't she?

So off he popped and jumped in the shower used her towels to dry himself off, was in for a good twenty minutes.

Came down popped his lunch in the microwave.

Then asked her if she was intrested in the product. Needless to say that sale didn't work!
 
Steve2000 said:
Just last week I had a young "student" from Slovakia or some other faraway land round at my door (English language just barely comprehensible), with a series of what must have been 15-20 full size paintings (big ones as well not just the A2 size). She claims these are "Matisse inspired" masterpieces created by her and her fellow "students" back in Romania or wherever. The money raised would go towards the exhibition they were putting on apparently. Fair enough, a bit of a stretch trooping all those paintings all the way over here and trying door to door sales of all things, but still. But then she turned the paintings round and showed me them. If I'm brutally honest they look like what my 2 year old nephew would knock out at nursery. They were ****ing hideous. I shouldn't say that as I can't draw to save someone's life, but these were something else. I voiced my disapproval as such.

Now to troop them over to the UK and actually talk me into parting with my hard earned cash is one thing, but no, she insisted that she come into my house to see what I had on my walls already so she could advise on what needs replacing. She looked around the door into my hallway (without my permission) and noticed the Kandinsky I have hanging on the wall there. She said that it looked "dreary and cold" and instead held up a white canvas with six blue lines, two circles and a square. This would apparently "brighten up" the hallway. At this point I was in two minds as to whether I should be amused or insulted. I just told her that I preferred a different kind of art to a bit of paint squirted from a tube onto a bit of used canvas. But this wasn't enough. She was trying to persuade me that I was "wrong" and actually demanded a reason why her paintings weren't good enough. Now my patience was wearing thin. Ten minutes of my life I'd wasted here at this door. She then just said to me "OK I can give you these two for what I think is a brilliant price of just £100" (remember this is the sort of tat you see at boot sales for a fiver). After a rather blank stare I explained that I had a prior engagement on the telephone and had to leave to take a highly prioritised call. She still wouldn't leave, convincing me still that I "need them". I just had to close the door firmly in her face in the finish.

Made me think though as I observed her trooping from house to house with these works of "art", facing constant rejection, what some people will do for money.
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This is a well known scam that has been doing the rounds for a few years now.

Don't let them in your house, the so called paintings are worthless !
 
Steve2000 said:
Just last week I had a young "student" from Slovakia or some other faraway land round at my door (English language just barely comprehensible), with a series of what must have been 15-20 full size paintings (big ones as well not just the A2 size). She claims these are "Matisse inspired" masterpieces created by her and her fellow "students" back in Romania or wherever. The money raised would go towards the exhibition they were putting on apparently. Fair enough, a bit of a stretch trooping all those paintings all the way over here and trying door to door sales of all things, but still. But then she turned the paintings round and showed me them. If I'm brutally honest they look like what my 2 year old nephew would knock out at nursery. They were ****ing hideous. I shouldn't say that as I can't draw to save someone's life, but these were something else. I voiced my disapproval as such.

Now to troop them over to the UK and actually talk me into parting with my hard earned cash is one thing, but no, she insisted that she come into my house to see what I had on my walls already so she could advise on what needs replacing. She looked around the door into my hallway (without my permission) and noticed the Kandinsky I have hanging on the wall there. She said that it looked "dreary and cold" and instead held up a white canvas with six blue lines, two circles and a square. This would apparently "brighten up" the hallway. At this point I was in two minds as to whether I should be amused or insulted. I just told her that I preferred a different kind of art to a bit of paint squirted from a tube onto a bit of used canvas. But this wasn't enough. She was trying to persuade me that I was "wrong" and actually demanded a reason why her paintings weren't good enough. Now my patience was wearing thin. Ten minutes of my life I'd wasted here at this door. She then just said to me "OK I can give you these two for what I think is a brilliant price of just £100" (remember this is the sort of tat you see at boot sales for a fiver). After a rather blank stare I explained that I had a prior engagement on the telephone and had to leave to take a highly prioritised call. She still wouldn't leave, convincing me still that I "need them". I just had to close the door firmly in her face in the finish.

Made me think though as I observed her trooping from house to house with these works of "art", facing constant rejection, what some people will do for money.
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An Indian guy was doing the same round our way a few months ago. My mum bought 3 paintings...then he came back a few weeks later and she bought 1 more. Silly *****
 
Let me get this straight. A strange woman lands up at your door and you don't know she is a saleswoman until she's in the house, has ahd a chat and eventually pulls some contraption out of her bag? Did you let her in thinking she randomly knocked on your door looking for sex?

Am I right?

Jesus wept.
 
We live in an area that is plastered with "no cold calling" signs allover it, unfortunately it doesn't stop some of them and they insist they are not trying to sell anything, just wondering if you are interested in a product and would you contact them. Luckily by the time they get to the 4th or 5th house and constantly reassured by these signs they give up and go home. Unfortunately the signs are supplied and the system of reporting these people is done by the local council (not town council) so nothing ever happens to them.
 
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