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We don't buy at the door
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Cynthia | Report | 7 Dec 2013 17:26 |
There are some good tips on this link Ann. We have an official card in our door window which states we will call the police if harrassed. We would too!! |
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nameslessone | Report | 7 Dec 2013 14:38 |
I'm surprised all these callers are trying to sell something - 'cos my callers always tell me they are not selling! |
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Merlin | Report | 7 Dec 2013 13:05 |
I had that some years ago,three times in a week :-( Anyway a pal of mine was an MD Of an engineering firm As a favour he got me the phone number of the MD of that company (A well Known one) I rang him up at his home at 2am gave him my name and address and told him not to send anymore of his reps to my home or I would continue to call him at that time untill they stopped. It worked, :-D :-D no more callers or Brochures came. :-D :-D |
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Staffs Col | Report | 7 Dec 2013 12:56 |
I got pestered time and time again by a conservatory company a couple of years ago. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 7 Dec 2013 01:33 |
We had a young man here recently, wanting money to paint our house number on the kerb. |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 6 Dec 2013 23:53 |
like Sharron I used to knock on doors for market research - but I think a lot of this is done on line these days (I enjoy doing them from as it were the other side of the clipboard). Probably a more efficient way of completing quotas and cross-sections - with the one great black spot is that there are no non-computer users giving answers! |
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Nolls from Harrogate | Report | 6 Dec 2013 18:47 |
We live in a cul-de-sac and have Police notices attached to the street lighting at both ends of the street and we were all given stickers to place on front doors ....does it stop them? not on your life! :-S |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 6 Dec 2013 18:31 |
We don't seem to have market researchers where i live, either that or they don't knock. |
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Sharron | Report | 6 Dec 2013 18:25 |
Well, when I was door knocking for market research, you could nearly always bank on getting an interview in a house with one of those signs. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 6 Dec 2013 18:17 |
i bought a sign that says "No cold callers, no circulars, no canvassers" |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 6 Dec 2013 17:16 |
Some years ago a deaf and dumb man knocked at my door selling dusters, tea towels etc. he presented me with a written card explaining his situation and giving prices of his goods. I bought a couple of dusters that I did not particularly want but I felt sorry for him. As he walked down my drive he dropped something without thinking I called out to tell him, he turned round picked it up and said thanks very much. Deaf and dumb he was not ! He was red faced when he realised what he had done. |
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Maryanna | Report | 6 Dec 2013 15:55 |
We had a sign up a few years back. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 6 Dec 2013 15:48 |
Why do they persist though puzzles me . We get double glazing salesmen knocking even though can see we are double glazed !,, when I point this out they then say your porch looks as if it could be replaced . My response is maybe but when WE decide it will be done we will go back to the people who did the windows . |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Dec 2013 15:39 |
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D |
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PricklyHolly | Report | 6 Dec 2013 15:36 |
I hope you didn't slam it and your windows fell out!! |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Dec 2013 15:15 |
I have a typewritten notice on my front door along with a police sticker - "Cold callers not welcome" |
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