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Sales people calling to your door

  • 07-04-2025 05:41PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭


    I think people calling to your door in the evenings trying to sell you something should be against the law! Some dude from Phone Watch just called offering something or other. Like, I've dinner on the go and I'm putting towels out on the line.

    If I want to purchase something I'll head out and get what I need or ill buy it online. I don't want some fecker landing at my door demanding my time! It's kind of outrageous! I'm probably getting hungry now but it's so annoying. They turn me into a rude person. I don't want to close the on their face!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,401 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    "No thanks, I'm busy right now" is all you have to say.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Door to door sales is a crappy job. Just be nice to them, tell them you’ve the dinner on but thanks for calling. They’re not out to annoy you 🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭littlefeet


    Does anyone actually buy from them?

    Post edited by littlefeet on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭lisabiscuit


    I've never bought anything or signed up to any plan on my door step. Any company who engages in it going into my never getting a penny from me list in my mind. I do feel sorry for the people doing it, they must be super stuck for options.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Father Popcorn always loves a chat. He'd happily talk to these guys for hours.

    Once one called when it was raining. Daddy popcorn had an umbrella and the fella sitting in the car got soaked because te rain ran off the umbrella onto him.

    He never bought anything off them.

    Strangely, they never call now.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,742 ✭✭✭Trampas


    If selling electricity etc it’s sorry I’m under contract. Charities it’s sorry I support my own charities. Everything else is no thank you and just take the leaflet off them. Sometimes I just ignore the door if I’m busy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭BagofWeed


    Never answer the door to anyone, simple as. Nobody calls to your door to give you something for free.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,653 ✭✭✭Allinall


    I just don’t answer the door.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,716 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    It's a great day for putting towels on the line.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭zg3409


    They play on people unable to spell correctly and not willing or able to compare deals. They lie and tell them it's a great deal and lock them into a long contract. Typically they don't actually work for Vodafone/gas etc, they just wear a branded jacket and ID but they work for a middleman and may be back the next day with a jacket on from a competitor.

    In the UK there was reports of guys saying sign here to say you are not interested and signing people up without their permission. If you are already with the supplier they may have details on you but typically they have no idea if you are a customer.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,458 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    There should be a register providers have to check so you can put yourself on a do not call list.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,378 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Phone watch still non stop with their nonsense at my door despite me logging complaints with them directly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭littlefeet




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,964 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Just stare at them. Intensely. Unblinking. No words. Very slight hint of a smile.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭waywill1966


    Answer the door naked, they’ll soon go……. or will they !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Tom Sanders


    Oh so it's that simple is it? I think YOU should be more sympathetic to the OP.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,401 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    What?

    It really is that easy!

    (Maybe my sarcasm radar needs new batteries!)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,651 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Of course it's that simple. I do it all the time. Takes 30 seconds max. "No thanks, not interested". Close door or walk away.



  • Site Banned Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Raichų




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,954 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Sales people people calling to the hall door … never ever sign up to anything without saying goodbye, closing the door and then doing your homework on whatever it was they were trying to sell you. Then by all means give them a call & buy their product (if it checks out).



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,967 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Unsolicited door to door sales is an anachronism that belongs the past when consumers didn't have the internet, TV or phones. Unannounced visits by friends to houses are dying out yet we have these salesmen turning up when you're about to eat your evening meal.

    In 2025, who is going to agree to buy a Phonewatch service or donate to some charity based on this - a vulnerbale person such as an elderly person with cognitive impairment?

    I'd still rather see these salesmen calling than the other type of door to door salesmen, the "travelling" kind who drive Hiaces and Transit vans. Scamming scumbags who specifically target the elderly.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 22,038 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Look out the window/use camera doorbell, if you see a clipboard, clothing with a logo or leaflets in their hand don't answer the door.

    If you make the mistake of opening it cut off their spiel with "No thanks" and promptly close it again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,382 ✭✭✭✭elperello




  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 22,038 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I had a broken doorbell for a few years, they sounded like they were hammering at the door.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,382 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Don't break it just let the button work with no ring.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    IIt Simple. Either a.no thanks and close door or don't answer.

    Luckily we get very very little.in the way of anyone at the door. And since covid, they're dropped off the radar.

    All good.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Bought Board Gais electricity from one a few weeks ago.

    Our contract was up and we had not got around to switching.

    Guy calls to the door, and I told him he had called to the right house.

    Brought him in, went through the new numbers with him, checked on bonkers that they were good value and went with it.

    As I said, he called to the right house at the right time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Kurooi


    I've had a good few not take a "no" for an answer… And if I didn't answer the door they circle around the house start waving at me through the window. I've come up with several absurd and uncomfortable lines to toss at them to get them to leave me alone…

    And though I am sorry to pile on my own gripe, I must, what also bothers me are fliers, and specifically those people/companies that bunch up a load of fliers all together.

    Someone out there gathers up 4 pizza deliveries, 3 burger joints, 4 paving companies, some local newspaper etc etc and just **** that scrunched up brick of spam into a thousand post boxes. I then pay for this plastic and glossy paper to be disposed. And then on windy days they get that stuff half way into a mailbox get that draft going and litter the streets. Complete waste and utter idiocy we allow this, with all the waste reduction ideas slapped on people you'd think at least this would be a no brainer to curb.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭BP_RS3813


    Must do if its going on otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,959 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I keep a bottle of píss by the door so I can blast them.



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