Door-to-door salesman repellent

[Mad Doug Biker]

Personally, I reserve the right to not like someone who interrupts my evening meal with an attempt to sell a product/service/religion I don't want and quite frankly do want them to go away.

Fairdos.
Just a polite 'No thanks' usually sufices - you don't live at the south pole, so I doubt your food will go stone cold in the space of about a minute
I can see your point though, don't get me wrong. It was just the whole notion of the original post that got me going about actually ESCORTING someone off a property. That's just OTT and I'm sure I wouldn't be terribly impressed when I have these things called legs and can go quite easily by myself.

Getting frogmarched off just for ringing a door bell, am I the only one who can see that that's quite frankly crazy?

There's too much hate in this world as it is.

I'm ex-directory, with a withheld number and registered with the TPS.
I very rarely get unwelcome calls now. As I have caller display I just don't answer the phone if I don't recognise the number.

Which is ok for the dialing codes cold callers use, but what about a genuinely important call from someone? and what's more, what if it's someone you know phoning you but from a new number or, heaven forbid, from a pay phone?? etc etc. (there are plenty of people out there that I know but would never recognise their number, especially those who seem to change their mobile phones more often than I have hot dinners. If I never answered any that I didn't recognise then I wouldn't ever get very far).
Yer little plan starts falling down

Ok, so I'm aware that cold callers tend to use certain dialing codes, but what about a normal person trying to contact you about something??

Anyway.

 

[XmisterIS]

t was just the whole notion of the original post that got me going about actually ESCORTING someone off a property. That's just OTT and I'm sure I wouldn't be terribly impressed when I have these things called legs and can go quite easily by myself.

Getting frogmarched off just for ringing a door bell, am I the only one who can see that that's quite frankly crazy?

There's too much hate in this world as it is.

MDB - I think you may be barking up the wrong tree ... I refer you back to my original comment (which you have previously quoted): "The long and short of it is that I took his name and his company's name, I escorted him off my property and I put a complaint in writing to his company."


Please notice that I wrote "The long and short of it", with the implication that I had omitted information for the sake of brevity.


What I didn't go into was the lengthy conversation I did have with this particular chap, I did initially ask him politely to leave, but when I closed the door he rang on the doorbell again and continued his sales pitch in a very aggressive, in-your-face manner. I then asked him again, twice, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested, please could you leave". Then I escorted him off my property and wrote a letter of complaint - I don't do that every time someone rings on my doorbell trying to sell me something (which they don't any more, due to the sign). So I didn't "frogmarch" him off my property just for ringing my doorbell, as you put it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I know, I was just 'avin' a bit of a troll at it all.

Sorry, was just having some fun, hence why I just sat back and let it simmer before replying again

 

[XmisterIS]

Lol! I resisted ... but then fell for it! Your trolling is like sweet chocolate ... irresistable!

Oh God, that sounds creepy!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Sweet chocolate??

No one has ever described me as THAT before! Another pungent substance that looks like chocolate maybe, but never sweet chocolate!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Places like this must be absolute HELL for you and some others on here!!

http://www.museumofbrands.com/



See the 'Annoying adverts (again)' thread and my post about my donation to the Museum of Brands.
Still feeling proud to have helped a small museum with such obscure and ephemeral items as I type this!

Most importantly of all, they gave me free admission to the museum!

Hell, here it is in all it's tragic, geekish glory!:

This is going to sound SERIOUSLY tragic, but as a kid, I collected smarties tubes (there were a LOT of different designs over the years I'll have you know!) from both here in the UK and mainland Europe, dating back to the early '90s.

They were still in the loft until last week when, after getting in touch with The Museum of Brands in London http://www.museumofbrands.com/, I donated them to them!

I was in London anyway, so I waddled off the sleeper at Euston and along with a BIG box full of the tubes and various other things to where it is in Notting Hill.

If you have never been to that museum, I'd recommend it, it's FULL of the sort of things that you had either forgotten about or you haven't seen in YEARS!

Who knows, you might even see some of my smarties subes somewhere, and what's more, I got to speak with the currator, Robert Opie, who seemed to be particularly interested in an example from Southern Ireland which was in fact just a long thin box the same size as a tube.



MDB, who is feeling proud at having done his bit for products, sales and brands, instead of just sticking a silly little message on his door!!

 

[Maizie]

Haha nice... But can you also add " please no clothing collection sacks " .... As we get about 4/5 of these on a weekly basis shoved through the door.. Then its a perfect sign..lol

We get a couple a week. When they first started appearing, I'd put them out (empty) for collection/reuse, but they would never pick them up. So now they come through the door, go in to the cupboard, and we rarely have to buy binbags anymore For some reason I always turn them inside out to use them as a binbag, but seeing as after that they are going in to the wheelie bin, I doubt anyone would pick one up by mistake as a bag full of donations...

 

[giant man]

I have something far more effective for door-to-door salesmen. It's called a German Shepherd ..

 

[Arch]

Places like this must be absolute HELL for you and some others on here!!

http://www.museumofbrands.com/



See the 'Annoying adverts (again)' thread and my post about my donation to the Museum of Brands.
Still feeling proud to have helped a small museum with such obscure and ephemeral items as I type this!

I don't think that museum (did it not used to be in Gloucester? There certainly was a packaging museum there, I went to it) has anything to do with unwanted doorstep callers....

I suspect most of us who would cheerfully kick a door-to-door salesman all the way to the gate, would also happily indulge our nostalgia at such a museum.

 

[PBancroft]

Fairdos.
Just a polite 'No thanks' usually sufices - you don't live at the south pole, so I doubt your food will go stone cold in the space of about a minute
I can see your point though, don't get me wrong. It was just the whole notion of the original post that got me going about actually ESCORTING someone off a property. That's just OTT and I'm sure I wouldn't be terribly impressed when I have these things called legs and can go quite easily by myself.

Getting frogmarched off just for ringing a door bell, am I the only one who can see that that's quite frankly crazy?

There's too much hate in this world as it is.

True that. Of course, I'm sure you've also had the experience of callers that don't take "No" for an answer. Those who "aren't selling anything" or even put their foot in the door jamb. Sometimes not as extreme as that, but you get the drift.

I've never had to escort someone off my property though.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I don't think that museum (did it not used to be in Gloucester? There certainly was a packaging museum there, I went to it) has anything to do with unwanted doorstep callers....

I know, I just thought I'd mention it as it is sort of relevant!

Also, read the website, it tells you that the museum did indeed reside somewhere in Gloucestershire

 

[Chromatic]

I don't think that museum (did it not used to be in Gloucester? There certainly was a packaging museum there, I went to it) has anything to do with unwanted doorstep callers....

I suspect most of us who would cheerfully kick a door-to-door salesman all the way to the gate, would also happily indulge our nostalgia at such a museum.

I know, I just thought I'd mention it as it is sort of relevant!

Also, read the website, it tells you that the museum did indeed reside somewhere in Gloucestershire

Yes, it was in one of the warehouses in Gloucester Docks

 

[Arch]

I know, I just thought I'd mention it as it is sort of relevant!

Also, read the website, it tells you that the museum did indeed reside somewhere in Gloucestershire

I looked at the site, but being a frivolous girl, I went straight to the shop part....

Plenty of cycle themed cards and stuff...

My memory of the museum was a package of something like Bovril, tactfully called Ex-Ox. The picture was of a bullock being taken off in a railway truck, while his fellow cattle wept in the field....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How random! the cows were actually weeping??

Bikewise, the shop has one or two things for that '70s kids icon, the Chopper, and I got myself a Raleigh keyring which is like one of those that car owners have to show what they drive!


Unfortunately I don't use a Raleigh any more, so SHHH!!

 

[Arch]

How random! the cows were actually weeping??

It might have been the bullock in the wagon that was shedding a tear. It certainly wasn't... subtle.

I suppose the Ex bit stood for Extract, but I imagined it meant Ex as in, no more...