Solicitors at your house?

[Nebulous]

No, actually, you don't..

 

[Vaeve]

Yes, and I can still draw that conclusion!

 

[Nebulous]

Yes, and I can still draw that conclusion!

assumption*

 

[Vaeve]

assumption*

Literally just talking shit out of my ass to annoy you*

 

[Nebulous]

Literally just talking shit out of my ass to annoy you*

I am not annoyed.

 

[passenger]

I deny them in the end but I'm open to engage with them at first, just to hear what they have to say, even if it's useless cause why not? I even tried to give one a chocolate cause they seemed exhausted, to which they had a weird reaction to.

I had a rather unique neighbor once that engaged in conversation with a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, whose last ditch sales "pitch" was to say that he had to sell door-to-door in order to feed his family; anyhow, she did not buy a vacuum cleaner but did end up giving him a sack full of her canned goods. Said he needed the canned food worse than she did.

 

[Vaeve]

I had a rather unique neighbor once that engaged in conversation with a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, whose last ditch sales "pitch" was to say that he had to sell door-to-door in order to feed his family; anyhow, she did not buy a vacuum cleaner but did end up giving him a sack full of her canned goods. Said he needed the canned food worse than she did.

LMAOOO I've seen the conversation thing because it's fun to shit around, but that alternative is quite crafty. Usually salespeople don't exactly convey their "needs", so it's kinda hard to do what your neighbor did, but maybe I'll try giving them something else next time! They'll feel too awkward to really push me further, and if they do, I'll give them something else, it'll be a funny loop.

How's your experience with them btw?

 

[passenger]

LMAOOO I've seen the conversation thing because it's fun to shit around, but that alternative is quite crafty. Usually salespeople don't exactly convey their "needs", so it's kinda hard to do what your neighbor did, but maybe I'll try giving them something else next time! They'll feel too awkward to really push me further, and if they do, I'll give them something else, it'll be a funny loop.

How's your experience with them btw?

After watching the film, "Door-to-Door" (based on a real person); I think that helped to give me a more relaxed, tolerant attitude toward solicitors of every kind. I don't think that I have ever bought anything from any of them, but I will talk with them for a while and try to be friendly. The kind I don't have much patience with or sympathy for is political campaigners.
You might say that I'm a political atheist.

Spoiler: "Door to Door"

 

[Nebulous]

The kind I don't have much patience with or sympathy for is political campaigners.
You might say that I'm a political atheist.

Oh yeah those are the worst. One time one caught me when I just got home and handn't closed my garage yet. He walked up and said "I'm running for...." and I just said that I had food on the oven that was about to burn and closed the garage.

 

[Cory]

In my neighborhood, we get salesmen occasionally. I tend to peek out the front window and if they look like they're trying to sell something, then I don't bother answering the door. A few times in the past month or two we've got a 'vote for me' type of person to run for a specific political campaign in our city.

 

[Webster]

How do you handle solicitors who come to your house and try to sign you up for stuff or sell you something?

I just greet them at the door, listen to their spiel and send them on their way.

 

[Nebulous]

I just greet them at the door, listen to their spiel and send them on their way.

Why open the door in the first place? Thats my motto.

 

[MrDawn]

I gotz better things to do!

You and I need to get matching signs...

 

[Kale]

we just never answer the door when they come to our house.

I so wanted to get this sign

Amazon product ASIN B084KSR9RY

 

[MrDawn]

we just never answer the door when they come to our house.

I so wanted to get this sign

Amazon product ASIN B084KSR9RY

Soliciting is so rude. I have learned that if people want something, they'll go to the store or buy it on the internet.

 

[Nebulous]

Soliciting is so rude. I have learned that if people want something, they'll go to the store or buy it on the internet.

I had a job selling newspaper subscriptions back in the day when I was a teenager. I sucked at it. So much rejection!

 

[MrDawn]

I had a job selling newspaper subscriptions back in the day when I was a teenager. I sucked at it. So much rejection!

Same. The moment the school would make go do door to door cookie dough sells, I would just shake my head and sigh. The school would offer to give out shitty little toys if you did a good job. We did whole streets and maybe 3 people would fill out the form. I have no clue how some kids were able to fill their forms out.

 

[passenger]

I had a job selling newspaper subscriptions back in the day when I was a teenager. I sucked at it. So much rejection!

For me it was potholders. You know, they had ads in the back of comic books......"send off for your kit; make lots of moolah selling these lovely potholders door to door!"

 

[Nebulous]

Same. The moment the school would make go do door to door cookie dough sells, I would just shake my head and sigh. The school would offer to give out shitty little toys if you did a good job. We did whole streets and maybe 3 people would fill out the form. I have no clue how some kids were able to fill their forms out.

Oh yeah I sold candy for the school when I was a kid. One time I won a free trip to McDonalds in a limo.

For me it was potholders. You know, they had ads in the back of comic books......"send off for your kit; make lots of moolah selling these lovely potholders door to door!"

Lol, how many did you sell?

 

[fuzzems]

We don't get them now. We live a bit off the road and private drive so nobody is coming up to the house now. When we used to live in town with sidewalks, we did some solicitors. Usually 7th Day adventists or JWs. Sometime people offering a service. And of course lots of kids selling stuff.

I used to answer the door and just say no thanks. Sometimes I would patiently listen. And kids selling stuff, sometimes i bought stuff. But, now, if someone comes to my door, I just don't answer it. I didn't ask anyone to come knocking so I don't feel any obligation to answer the door. I don't feel any obligation to answer the phone either for numbers I do not know.

Oh and if someone invites me to a "party" that is really just some MLM thing to sell me pampered chef or something. I immediately toss those in the trash with no "rsvp". Don't pretend you are inviting me to a "party" and require an RSVP when in reality you are inviting me to sell me some crap. And if I have never been invited to your house for a real social gathering nor you to mine,, then don't invite to come buy you stuff. So, since it's not a real party, then there is no obligation to rsvp, that just gets tossed.