Feeling Hassled in Shopping Centres

Northernrobm

Is it just me who feels hassled by sales people standing at kiosks in most of the big shopping centres, normal selling something like hand cream? Its virtually impossible to walk past them without having one of these sales persons shouting to you, can i ask you a question or saying something stupid to you like "i've been expecting you" just to get you to stop and talk. Personally if i wanted hand cream i'd stop and ask!

lukesmom

Northernrobm wrote: »

Is it just me who feels hassled by sales people standing at kiosks in most of the big shopping centres, normal selling something like hand cream? Its virtually impossible to walk past them without having one of these sales persons shouting to you, can i ask you a question or saying something stupid to you like "i've been expecting you" just to get you to stop and talk. Personally if i wanted hand cream i'd stop and ask!

Yes and those e cigarette stands, annoying

no thanks

dee_mc

Yep, just smile and say 'no thanks!', keep walking, they're just doing their job!

Agricola

I always found when you say "no thanks", even cutting them off mid sentence, you normally get a polite "ok thank you" back with a smile.

Northernrobm

Deleted User wrote: »

no thanks

and they continue to shout to you.

Angry_Mammarys

Just swan by them all shouting ''IN YOUR DREAMS:mad:'' works every time

Too Tough To Die

Scum of the earth.

MRnotlob606

This doesn't happen here

Northernrobm

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

This doesn't happen here

Where?

monty_python

wear earphone and they wont speak to you, works for beggers too

monty_python

monty_python wrote: »

wear earphone and they wont speak to you, works for beggers too

can beggars afford earphones?

bookerboy

Spend my life trying to avoid them in Liffey Valley

Stavros Murphy

Deleted User wrote: »

can beggars afford earphones?

Ah yeah, TK maxx have them very cheap. So do the Eurosavers. No-one offers me any hand creams. I'm feeling left out. Very sexist.

Arthur Beesley

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Scum of the earth.

A bit unfair, the original poster doesn't sound that bad.

Arthur Beesley

Deleted User wrote: »

can beggars afford earphones?

They can, but they have nothing to plug them into.

Heroditas

bookerboy wrote: »

Spend my life trying to avoid them in Liffey Valley

A polite but firm "no thank you" while keeping moving is all you need to do.
The ones just outside Marks & Sparks are particularly insistent though. Think they're the ones who sell the manicure stuff.

freshpopcorn

Say no thanks and keep walking.
If you feel hassled by people asking you a question you might need counselling.

shopaholic01

When I say ''no thanks'' they usually just keep talking to me, or if there's more than one, they follow me.

Now I just ignore them. Rude, yet effective.

GreeBo

Not at all, I totally wanted to buy dead sea salt scrub from the sexy little Romanian girl in Liffey valley last week, I didnt even want that 60 quid.

And yes, Im a dude. (or was, now Im a soft skinned hermaphrodite)

moc moc a moc

My go-to tactic is a scowl combined with a gruff "NO HABLO INGLÉS".

darkpagandeath

I find doing a twitchy crazy eye gets rid of them

mikeym

Its worse when they call to the door especially the charity callers.

moxin

The worst ones are the drug rehab types outside shops where they literally block your entry into said shop, fricking annoying.

On the way into my local shopping centre, there is a Sky seller kiosk, a mobile phone seller kiosk and of course the e-Cig stand. As i'm familiar with them each time I pass them, I always have my simple excuses prepared.
Sky - nah, i'm renting a room so cannot install a dish(not really!)
Mobile - nah, I hardly use it and prefer the PC for internet
E-Cig - I don't smoke.

shruikan2553

I often see the sky kiosk and e-cig kiosk bothering nobody and just interacting with people who come up to them. Just the chuggers and paralympics people bothering others.

lukesmom

Or people on exercise bikes with buckets in front

Aidric

Is Tony Quinn still selling tanning tablets?

cerastes

Heroditas wrote: »

A polite but firm "no thank you" while keeping moving is all you need to do.
The ones just outside Marks & Sparks are particularly insistent though. Think they're the ones who sell the manicure stuff.

Thats all the IDF training kicking in, honeytraps
Im not offered anymore, they know I have no information.

moc moc a moc wrote: »

My go-to tactic is a scowl combined with a gruff "NO HABLO INGLÉS".

Me spreaky no engrish is my go to line, actually none of them offer me anymore, its clear cream and curlers just isnt going to do it for me, I must have gone past the point of being helped, Ive never noticed anyone trying to force e-smokes on me, been buying bags of groceries I dont need in the hope that girl notices me :rolleyes:.

mikeym wrote: »

Its worse when they call to the door especially the charity callers.

Dont answer? jobs a good un?
or just be honest, tell them, not interested, or its not going anywhere, so I may as well just close the door now.

Angry_Mammarys

lukesmom wrote: »

Or people on exercise bikes with buckets in front

Haha I've never seen that! it must be so undignified !!

punisher5112

I tell them their in for some punishment and mutter to myself as I walk by usually they run away screaming.

Angry_Mammarys

Also slowly walking past ,staring into their eyes with a menacing look whilst doing the slit throat gesture works.

BonsaiKitten

moc moc a moc wrote: »

My go-to tactic is a scowl combined with a gruff "NO HABLO INGLÉS".

I do this with Irish.
Always talk Irish to them, have yet to have anyone cop it!
"Oh you're foreign...sorry sorry" is the usual response.

dmc17

Northernrobm wrote: »

Is it just me who feels hassled by sales people standing at kiosks in most of the big shopping centres, normal selling something like hand cream? Its virtually impossible to walk past them without having one of these sales persons shouting to you, can i ask you a question or saying something stupid to you like "i've been expecting you" just to get you to stop and talk. Personally if i wanted hand cream i'd stop and ask!

Ask them will the hand cream work down below, that you've got a bad rash down there and offer to show it to them!

anncoates

Perma-scowl does the job.

P_1

It's just explicit selling. Ads and just having a shop open are implicit selling. Is anybody forcing you to buy the things they sell?

Ahoy Ahoy

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Scum of the earth.

Bit over the top!!!??

whirlpool

I feel sorry for them but it does irritate me because I find it uncomfortable and awkward.

And yes I know that saying "no thanks" stops them from pursuing a person.

Stavros Murphy

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Ah yeah, TK maxx have them very cheap. So do the Eurosavers. No-one offers me any hand creams. I'm feeling left out. Very sexist.

What's wrong with being sexy?

JohnMearsheimer

I haven't noticed it too much in here Cork but I was in the Jervis in Dublin about 2 weeks ago and there were 2 guys there selling some kind of beauty product or something and they had a very in your face approach. They tried to grab my attention and just said I wasn't interested. I then had lunch at the Sbarro pizza stand and sat down facing in their direction and they were over the top trying to get people's attention. Their approach would really out me off even speaking to them. Their style really reminded me of chuggers. They must be on commission or need to make an X number of sales to meet a target.

michellie

The Benefit counter is so annoying for this, I like Benefit, but will purposely avoid it because of the staff hounding me

Angry_Mammarys

At least we don't live in tourist areas of Spain, thought I was gonna have a rage induced coronary trying to get around the shops and restaurants there.

No Pants

I wouldn't even bother speaking. Don't break your stride and give a swift shake of your head.

LETHAL LADY

I got a makeup makeover by one of these hassling folks. I was up from the bog for the day for a hospital appointment and just doing a bit of window shopping really. She badgered me over to the kiosk and did one half of my face with her fancy makeup and then started pushing the products on me. I wasn't skint but the prices were out of my league so I had to tell her I couldn't afford it. She was none too happy but she did finish the other half of my face to be fair to her. The woollyback learned a valuable lesson that day for the next trip to the big smoke.

stefan idiot jones

anncoates wrote: »

Perma-scowl does the job.

That is exactly what I used to do when I went to the Mediterranean for holidays. Timeshare Scum.

Sauve

I went into a cosmetics shop yesterday to pick up a few things. Was in a mad rush.
The sales assistant who stood in my way when I was trying to look at something wouldn't stop with trying to sell me some yoke that his colleague uses before shaving and now his skin is super smooth.
(The fact that I'm a beardless girl is beyond the point btw)

So I said "I'm actually in a bit of a hurry, I've a train to get, but I know what I want so I'll just have a quick look around thanks"

He said "Oh ok, go on ahead", then proceeded to follow me around the shop talking absolute shyte at me and holding me up even more. I ended up just blanking him :mad:

sw33t_r3v3ng3

some of the sales people are pretty cool though, I was walking through a shopping center lately and there was an eastern european selling small hot water bottle bean bag type things. He stopped us and we had a great chat, he was a funny guy and he let us try out the product. If people are nice and chatty and not in your face il gladly stop and talk to them.

Lando Griffin

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Scum of the earth.

Ahoy Ahoy wrote: »

Bit over the top!!!??

Maybe he was referring to the hand cream and not the sellers.

cerastes

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I got a makeup makeover by one of these hassling folks. I was up from the bog for the day for a hospital appointment and just doing a bit of window shopping really. She badgered me over to the kiosk and did one half of my face with her fancy makeup and then started pushing the products on me. I wasn't skint but the prices were out of my league so I had to tell her I couldn't afford it. She was none too happy but she did finish the other half of my face to be fair to her. The woollyback learned a valuable lesson that day for the next trip to the big smoke.

Funny half the face, funnier as when I read it, I thought you were coming from the bog when they badgered you over, realised then you meant your home place.

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

That is exactly what I used to do when I went to the Mediterranean for holidays. Timeshare Scum.

I went to one of those timeshare things, worse than estate agents, oh the beach is great free drinks, was suspect all along but I thought, what the heck if the beach is great, the beach was crap and full of cigarette butts, just put on a stoney face, they tried to push a contract on us and got a manager over to see what they could do, just ended up saying we were leaving.

Sauve wrote: »

I went into a cosmetics shop yesterday to pick up a few things. Was in a mad rush.
The sales assistant who stood in my way when I was trying to look at something wouldn't stop with trying to sell me some yoke that his colleague uses before shaving and now his skin is super smooth.
(The fact that I'm a beardless girl is beyond the point btw)

So I said "I'm actually in a bit of a hurry, I've a train to get, but I know what I want so I'll just have a quick look around thanks"

He said "Oh ok, go on ahead", then proceeded to follow me around the shop talking absolute shyte at me and holding me up even more. I ended up just blanking him :mad:

In that case, I think Id tell them to ease off breathing down my neck, then Id leave.

sw33t_r3v3ng3 wrote: »

some of the sales people are pretty cool though, I was walking through a shopping center lately and there was an eastern european selling small hot water bottle bean bag type things. He stopped us and we had a great chat, he was a funny guy and he let us try out the product. If people are nice and chatty and not in your face il gladly stop and talk to them.

I know what you mean, I prefer the small hot ones myself, I can do with the company too, I'll talk any old ****e to anyone that will listen or even not, sure Im here aren't I :pac:.

Stavros Murphy

Deleted User wrote: »

What's wrong with being sexy?

Not a thing. Sexy be good. I kinda do rough yet sexy. That sort doesn't get offered hand-cream. Mores the pity. Hand cream sounds plush.

Son Of A Vidic

Northernrobm wrote: »

Is it just me who feels hassled by sales people standing at kiosks in most of the big shopping centres, normal selling something like hand cream?

Simple, just start furiously scratching your arse as you approach their kiosk and they won't bother you.

Stavros Murphy

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Simple, just start furiously scratching your arse as you approach their kiosk and they won't bother you.

or muttering furiously to yourself while swivvelling your eyes.