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Old 04-12-2011, 08:01 PM   Topic Starter
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Combatting Door to Door Salesmen Advice
My wife got exploited today. Some pushy ****er came to our door, intimidated her, and talked her into buying his product through strong arm tactics.

I've looked up the company and products online and see that this is common practice for them and complaits to the company go unheeded. So I've written this one off. But there's always future such occurrences, and I want to protect my wife (who is home alone all day working) from being scared and intimidated by some slimy thug and pressured into paying for something just to get rid of him.

So: no solicitors sign? Train her in how to slam the door in people's faces? Have her call the cops? How can I empower her to feel safe, secure, and confident in the future in dealing with these scenarios (and gun training is not the answer as someone would end up dead).
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:03 PM   #2
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Don't open the door.

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Old 04-12-2011, 08:06 PM   #3
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Don't open the door.

Easy.
She usually doesn't. This guy had, evidetky, waited until UPS came to deliver, then he walked up and confronted my wife before she could get back inside, which is one if the things that freaked her out and pissed me off.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:07 PM   #4
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She usually doesn't. This guy had, evidetky, waited until UPS came to deliver, then he walked up and confronted my wife before she could get back inside, which is one if the things that freaked her out and pissed me off.
If you have the sales person's name you could always call the police and/or city and see if he had a license (assuming your area requires those).
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:18 PM   #5
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If you have the sales person's name you could always call the police and/or city and see if he had a license (assuming your area requires those).

this, and maybe the cops will confiscate the product he's selling just to help buy a new siren!

J/K

no but seriously a lot of municipalities do require permits, and even if they don't the police wouldn't mind being called. We have "field interview reports" that are perfect for these situations, if the neighborhood gets a rash of burglaries it gives the detectives a starting point in investigating them. Even if the sales person isn't the one that was doing the break-ins or sharing the information with someone else to do them, they may have seen something suspicious.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:03 PM   #6
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No solicitors sign, and personally, we don't answer our door unless we recognize who it is. (FedEx, neighbor, Publisher's Clearing House, etc.)
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Old 04-13-2011, 09:19 AM   #7
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No solicitors sign, and personally, we don't answer our door unless we recognize who it is. (FedEx, neighbor, Publisher's Clearing House, etc.)
this is why you left me standing in the rain the other day? I even had on a cheifs shirt, beer and a name tag...
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Old 04-13-2011, 01:52 PM   #8
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this is why you left me standing in the rain the other day? I even had on a cheifs shirt, beer and a name tag...
Next time don't have the name tag and you'll have a better chance.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:06 PM   #10
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I don't bother with the sign. We just don't open the door. We have a door-height window right by the door and the salespeople can see us as we round the corner, see them, and then go back to what we were doing. They get the hint.
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I don't answer the door unless I know who it is. And I bet the company was Kirby.
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I don't bother with the sign. We just don't open the door. We have a door-height window right by the door and the salespeople can see us as we round the corner, see them, and then go back to what we were doing. They get the hint.
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I don't answer the door unless I know who it is. And I bet the company was Kirby.
I actually enjoy opening the door so I can tell them to get the **** away from my house and close the door on them.
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I don't answer the door unless I know who it is. And I bet the company was Kirby.
I dealt with those ****ers a couple of years ago, after the wife naively accepted their "free carpet cleaning" offer. What a nightmare.
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I dealt with those ****ers a couple of years ago, after the wife naively accepted their "free carpet cleaning" offer. What a nightmare.
Explain, please?
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