Doorstep Chuggers

[downfader]

Anyone else get a little annoyed at these people..? This nipper just knocked the door, he was polite but he didnt get to the point for 30 seconds. Oddly he was distracted by a big spider over our door and said "look at that bad boy!"

I was thinking "He should be keeping people like you away from knocking my door."

Whilst I appreciate what they do I donate to other charities with postal orders. I dont have a credit card and neither would I fill in one of their forms on the doorstep.

Still... its not as bad as the salesmen and window people. I want a sign on my door telling them specifically to **** off. A week after we had our windows done this bloke from Everest knocked the door and starts the spiel. My Father who'd opened the door said "Have you not noticed the new windows?" and proceeded to shut the door as the bloke just carried on...

 

[ventoux50]

Oh Yes - piggin Jehovas witnesses - the bu**ers always come knocking when I'm up to my elbows in a mucky/tricky job, or more often than not when I've just got settled for half an hours clocking on the bog . . . . . . . needless to say, they don't get invited to enlighten me !

 

[davefb]

Oh Yes - piggin Jehovas witnesses - the bu**ers always come knocking when I'm up to my elbows in a mucky/tricky job, or more often than not when I've just got settled for half an hours clocking on the bog . . . . . . . needless to say, they don't get invited to enlighten me !

you'd have thought they could have just asked jehova 'is it a good time to call'.....


or maybe they do and thats why they always catch you

 

[downfader]

Oh Yes - piggin Jehovas witnesses - the bu**ers always come knocking when I'm up to my elbows in a mucky/tricky job, or more often than not when I've just got settled for half an hours clocking on the bog . . . . . . . needless to say, they don't get invited to enlighten me !

Sure fire tactic to get rid of them. Mate at college stayed with two girls in a flat share at the time. J Squad knocked the door on a fancy dress night they'd planned so was met with two girls in leather and rubber with whips. Unflustered, and seeing a "vulnerable" cause to convert and save he proceeded to say "have you ever thought of letting God into your life?"

"No." Replied on girl, "we're Satanists, gay and proud!" Then apparantly they had a little snog and the guy just wandered off completely shocked.

 

[ufkacbln]

Anyone else get a little annoyed at these people..? This nipper just knocked the door, he was polite but he didnt get to the point for 30 seconds. Oddly he was distracted by a big spider over our door and said "look at that bad boy!"

I was thinking "He should be keeping people like you away from knocking my door."

Whilst I appreciate what they do I donate to other charities with postal orders. I dont have a credit card and neither would I fill in one of their forms on the doorstep.

Still... its not as bad as the salesmen and window people. I want a sign on my door telling them specifically to **** off. A week after we had our windows done this bloke from Everest knocked the door and starts the spiel. My Father who'd opened the door said "Have you not noticed the new windows?" and proceeded to shut the door as the bloke just carried on...

I have a simple reply...

"We have an injunction against your company contacting us, and you are in breach of that injunction... Can I have your business card please so we can identify you?"

 

[vernon]

I have a simple reply...

"We have an injunction against your company contacting us, and you are in breach of that injunction... Can I have your business card please so we can identify you?"

I have a simpler reply.

I charge £20 per answer. How many questions do you want to ask?

 

[Shaun]

I charge £20 per answer. How many questions do you want to ask?

 

[Intelligenthamster]

Window, kitchen and other sales people scarper quickly if you tell them the house is rented- whether it really is or not...

 

[byegad]

Window, kitchen and other sales people scarper quickly if you tell them the house is rented- whether it really is or not...

+1. I tell them it's rented and the guy who owns it is a tight sod.

The first is a lie. The second is true. I was born in Yorkshire, that means I'm just like the archetypal Scot but without that open handed generosity.

 

[BrumJim]

Chuggers only annoy you if you don't give as much as you think you should.

Just up your giving to charities you want to support, and then you can answer them honestly and smugly that you have carefully selected amounts and recipients, and their cause is not amongst them.

 

[taxing]

Chuggers only annoy you if you don't give as much as you think you should.

Just up your giving to charities you want to support, and then you can answer them honestly and smugly that you have carefully selected amounts and recipients, and their cause is not amongst them.

They annoy me just by interrupting whatever I'm doing. I don't feel guilty, just... annoyed.

 

[downfader]

They annoy me just by interrupting whatever I'm doing. I don't feel guilty, just... annoyed.

I'm happy to admit I was watching the telly. Cant even remember what, just zoning out after a long day.

 

[ufkacbln]

A couple of years ago my wife spent 45 minutes or so talking to a phone sales rep about "plastic windows". When he tried to arrange a visit she offered o bring the windows down to them.... as they were in our tent!