front door sellers/charities

arknor said:
im sick of "charities" knocking on my door..

they dont just want a small contribution , they want your bank details to set up a direct debit these days.... :rolleyes:
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This is what really gets on my goat. Direct debit mandate, to a complete stranger, then a lifetime of phone calls asking if I want to increase my monthly contribution.

The last guy I politely said no to left in an almighty huff. It was a worthy cause that I would have happliy given a one off donation too. Apparently they're "not allowed" to take donation at the door.
 
Stretch said:
This is what really gets on my goat. Direct debit mandate, to a complete stranger, then a lifetime of phone calls asking if I want to increase my monthly contribution.

The last guy I politely said no to left in an almighty huff. It was a worthy cause that I would have happliy given a one off donation too. Apparently they're "not allowed" to take donation at the door.
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well I moved and you need a keyfob to open the main entrance so no more door to door idiots and no more spam apart from the spam RM deliver
 
I notice in Liverpool door to door sales folk and charity workers seem to do the rounds in the "lesser developed" areas. I used to open the door and give them the address or postcode of areas that could afford to sponsor an albino husky guide dog in Alaska.

Saying that I turned down a "marketing" job last month, when I found out it was spontaneous late evening face to face marketing by bringing the product straight to the customer's door step.
 
When i was younger, with the recession in 2008 i lost my job and one of the jobs i found online was a marketing job.

I applied for it and was in an interview the next day,
This stocky irish guy was asking about my work backround and asked how i would feel on £350 a week, i replied would be great.
He asked if i was confident speaking infront of crouds, "yea no problem"

Anyways started next day, "just go with *this girl* (cannot remember her name)".

So not sure what to expect i climb into this girls pug 207 and cling on for dear life.

We pull up to some street and i hear, alright lets get started, yep you guessed it, it was a door to door job. Bah.

After the first day i was out since 9am and got home at 10pm.

I had no training or anything and they had me knocking on peoples doors, selling the british red cross and asking for debit details, something i would never give out so asking wasnt nice.

Our "ID" badges were whipped up on MS power point, they were a joke.

For every sale our company got £50 and i would get £25 (for my work)

I lasted 6 days then threw in the towel, made no money what so ever.

I actually said, would rather be on the dole, to them lol
 
Had a couple. The first was a guy who along with a friend had setup a new milk round with one of his friends and supplied other stuff like yoghurts and juice. All well and good and I asked for a price list should I need anything (can order online) but he kept really sneakily trying to set me up for some constant weekly delivery thing, no thanks.

Next was a guy from the church next door 'selling the church' :) thats fine, the building next door was vacant for a long time and they are moving in, couldn't be happier, they wont be much trouble and generally friendly people, had a good chat about life stuff in general, never felt preassured or anything and thought it was a nice touch that they bothered to pop round and introduce themselves and apologise for building work.

Had a really really Welsh sounding guy pop round who was friendly enough and he was just doing a survery on Internet use, buying habits etc, I don't mind those if I have the time.

As for charities I don't mind chucking in a few quid for a good cause but I would never set up a direct debit for anything. Also these days I wouldn't donate to the RSPCA anymore with their put to sleep ideals, much better off donating to a local animal shelter.
 
Glaucus said:
I hate people who come to the door, had loads of the "have you used the grant from the wall insulation".
Can't you see every house on the street has the tail tail hole repairs in the wall.
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sorry, for all intense porpoises, that tickled me :)


on topic:
recently had rspca charity worker knock on the door...

"Good evening sir, are you an animal lover?"
"No. Bye."

/close door.
 
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Monkeynut said:
To be fair we had some Spanish lad knock the other day from the British Heart Foundation and the first thing he said was "I'm not allowed to collect donations on the door and you should go to the website" which I thought was pretty decent.
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I had one of their representatives turn up last night. She used the opening line "I dont know if you know but we've found the cure for heart disease", to which I replied "Well why are you here then?"

No answer...
 
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