Door to Door Salesmen(people)

[JB]

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I get very few at The Hideout. Most of them want to sell me pavement for my drive, dead steer, or their particular brand of evangelism.

I mostly engage them in a lecture on selling technique and point out what they have done wrong, so far. A lot of them get sorely ticked off and leave in a huff.

Once in a while I get one who is seriously interested in becoming a better salesperson so I get to pull out my old Sales Trainer hat and have some fun.

 

[Bondo]

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I get very few at The Hideout. Most of them want to sell me pavement for my drive, dead steer, or their particular brand of evangelism.

I mostly engage them in a lecture on selling technique and point out what they have done wrong, so far. A lot of them get sorely ticked off and leave in a huff.

Once in a while I get one who is seriously interested in becoming a better salesperson so I get to pull out my old Sales Trainer hat and have some fun.

Ayuh,.... I haven't had a door to door salesman knockin' on my door in years,...

I Used to get the Bible Pounders 'bout a Sunday a month, or more often,...
That is, til I took note of how a Bud of mine dealt with 'em,...
The next time they knocked on the door on a Sunday mornin',...

I answered the door,....... Naked....
'n of course, I not only answered the door, but stepped right out to say, Hi....

Ain't seen hide, nor hair of 'em, in well over 10 years now.......

 

[Limited-Time]

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I hate to sound like an internet bully, but there so bad around here that I put a no soliciting plaque on my door. Now when they see that and still knock on my door, I simply open the door and point at the (clearly visible sign) on my door, with the tip of my Kimber .45, and say, you must not have seen the sign. They usually tell me to have a good day sir and walk away.

Your doorbell rings and you see two salesmen on your porch that you don't care for. You answer, open the door and point at the (clearly visible sign) on your door, You don't point it at them, but you make sure that they are "uncomfortable". As you anticipated, they leave in short order.

The next knock you hear at your door is a local sheriff's deputy. "Two salesman have called in that you threatened them with a semi-automatic handgun sir. Do you own a handgun?"

Now who is feeling "uncomfortable"?

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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Your doorbell rings and you see two salesmen on your porch that you don't care for. You answer, open the door and point at the (clearly visible sign) on your door, You don't point it at them, but you make sure that they are "uncomfortable". As you anticipated, they leave in short order.

The next knock you hear at your door is a local sheriff's deputy. "Two salesman have called in that you threatened them with a semi-automatic handgun sir. Do you own a handgun?"

Now who is feeling "uncomfortable"?

That would be about how it went here...
Brandishing a weapon as a deterrent gets everything taken away, and maybe even some time in the clink.

No door-to-door people at my place. I live in a Condo where the inner breeze-way door needs to be buzzed open by one of the residents.
When I was still living with family, about the most we saw was Jo-ho's, and the Girl Scouts.

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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I have another door to door that comes by maybe once a quarter and is always welcome, my SnapOn Tool guy.

In my experience, while friendly and welcome, that guy's usually the biggest thief of them all...

 

[rogerwa]

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Interesteing topic.. I have a son that is almost 19 and is a freshman in college. He got hooked up into this d-d alrm sales thing that he thinks is the ticket to paradise. I echo all your commets above and am a very healthy skeptic with this kind of stuff. But he is 19, knows it all, and wants to find the shortcut.

Over the winter holiday, he wanted to go to Tx to train for this company so that he could do this over the summer. I said OK (thinking he would find out how much it sucked and be done with the idea). Well he comes back drunk on the kool aid and wants to take a year off from school so he can make some money. I said the equivalent of "hell no" and explained to him that life is a long race and your career needs the training for that race. This shortcut may pay initially but will not be seriously viewed on a career resume.

At this point he is looking at this to earn the money for his college. But I told him its a gamble. I told him that if he does this and meets his financial obligations then I will tell him how proud that he took this path and made it work. If it doesn't work then I will tell him what a nice lesson in life this was and by the way this is all your getting for school so you have a problem.

Personally I don't understand how this stuff sells. If I am looking for somethign like this, I do the research myself and have the vendors come to me not the other way around. But apparently it does work..

 

[bassman284]

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I got a great price on electricity rates once from a young guy at the door.

Cheers
Phillip

Whoa! You buy electricity from door-to-door salesmen in Oz? I really have to go there sometime.

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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Really??? I've never heard of any stealing anything. Guess I am just lucky.

Some tongue-in cheek humor Bubba, but I'm sure you get it...

 

[angus63]

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I have a beware of dog sign on my front gate. From there you can clearly see a dog house large enough to be confused with a garden shed. In front of the dog house is a water bowl large enough to boil a dozen lobster. I never have unsolicited guests. If they only knew it is for my 120lb lab who would lick you clean and lead you to the cabinet with the dog biscuits.

 

[Limited-Time]

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Sort of off topic but you should reconsider that sign. I used to have something along those same lines because people from the city would drive into the farm and get out assuming my german shepards were "friendly" when in fact they were not and I didn't want anyone bitten. My lawyer seen the sign one day and said, "Take it down as fast as you can". When I asked why he said that having a sign like that is an admission in the eyes of the law that I knowingly have dangerous dogs and don't keep them chained or in their kennel.

Now I have a sign that says, "Stay in car and Honk".

Bingo, spot on.

 

[STARCRAFT16SS]

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I live in the suburbs....not zoned for farm animals ...this suggestion will
not work for me ...my wife, Heather, tells me Chinese geese work far better than dogs
for guard duty...can't be bribed with food like dogs can... probably less likely to get in trouble
with the law if they attack an intruder then having a dog doing the attacking..

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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Actually I didn't. Slow on the up take today I guess. With all these other posters suggesting salesguys are the lowest form of life I thought maybe you were serious and had a problem with them stealing.

I meant it in a figurative way Bubba.
Compared to their competition (and I don't mean Sears), Snappy tools can sometimes be really over priced.

 

[atx111]

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The same guy that knocked on my door yesterday came back again today! Gotta give him points for determination for being out in 25 F weather with 40 mph winds.

 

[kenmyfam]

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We have a beagle that howls when anyone approaches. Just let her keep howling at the door till they go away.

 

[MH Hawker]

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Well when I lived in a apartment building I often had religious group dropping by early in the morning, and at the time I was working night shift, so after about 5 times I got a piece of chalk from a neighbors kid and drew a body out line in front of my door, snickers it worked very nicely.

 

[The_Kid]

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Since we installed some new signs at all the entrances to the subdivision the number of door to door folks has dropped considerably.



They are 18 X 24 and you cant miss them when you turn on to the streets. For the occasional sales person that still shows up I'll ask them if they can read. When they say "what do you mean?" I say "since you drove past the no trespassing / no soliciting sign I wasn't sure if you could."

If they don't get the hint, I'll politely ask them to leave. Three strikes and they are out. If they don't leave I'll grab my phone and snap a picture of them and their vehicle, then call the sheriff and report a trespasser.

 

[korygrandy]

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The same guy that knocked on my door yesterday came back again today! Gotta give him points for determination for being out in 25 F weather with 40 mph winds.

We get the guys in white trucks with white boxes of meat and the orange and silver vests "canvassing" the neighborhood in 10degree weather. My guess is they are trying to sell energy reduction services but my response is always "I have a general contractor whom takes care of all this."

I am WAITING for the girl-scouts to come knocking. I thought it was yesterday when my dog started barking but it was not a girl, or a scout but rather another contractor looking guy. I waved ot him as I continued on my way up the stairs with my dog letting him know we knew he was there.

I live very close to a private and public elementary school so I think they target the folks who are on there days off. The annoying guys always come during the day and I am usually not home.

I had a guy try to sell me Insect and Rodent repellant services and after that one I decided, unless it's a girl in a brown and tan dress with her parents next to her, I am not answering the door.

For a while I had a sign in my sidelight with a Camera, stating Trespassers are recorded VIA CCTV. Even that didn't stop them all.

 

[bigdee]

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I hate to sound like an internet bully, but there so bad around here that I put a no soliciting plaque on my door. Now when they see that and still knock on my door, I simply open the door and point at the (clearly visable sign) on my door, with the tip of my Kimber .45, and say, you must not have seen the sign. They usually tell me to have a good day sir and walk away.

This was my tactic too when I was younger but now I refuse to answer the door and keep an eye on them. If they don't leave and look suspicious I have a room that my family has been drilled to retreat to...in that room I keep a cell phone and a AR-15, make no mistake it would be self defense. I will not be a statistic, What a shame that society has come to this. Older people are the most targeted for home invasions.

 

[Limited-Time]

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This was my tactic too when I was younger but now I refuse to answer the door and keep an eye on them. If they don't leave and look suspicious I have a room that my family has been drilled to retreat to...in that room I keep a cell phone and a AR-15, make no mistake it would be self defense. I will not be a statistic, What a shame that society has come to this. Older people are the most targeted for home invasions.

WOW!!!! I'm glad I don't in your neighborhood.....................Or at your level of insecurity.

 

[coolbri70]

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the matco guy came buy today, i paid him, he asked me if i needed anything, i said no, he moved on. i like that. what makes me mad is when i say no, and they try to change my mind. cant sell me ice in the desert after that. if i change my mind i do it on my own, don't like being "sold" something