Feeling Hassled in Shopping Centres

BonsaiKitten · 24-01-2014 10:58PM

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 · 24-01-2014 11:00PM

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 · 24-01-2014 11:01PM

Perma-scowl does the job.

P_1 · 24-01-2014 11:09PM

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 · 24-01-2014 11:19PM

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Scum of the earth.

Bit over the top!!!??

whirlpool · 24-01-2014 11:22PM

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.

24-01-2014 11:58PM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:06AM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:12AM

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

Angry_Mammarys · 25-01-2014 12:17AM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:28AM

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

LETHAL LADY · 25-01-2014 12:31AM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:32AM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:36AM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:36AM

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 · 25-01-2014 12:38AM

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 · 25-01-2014 01:37AM

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 · 25-01-2014 02:06AM

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 · 25-01-2014 02:33AM

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 · 25-01-2014 10:07AM

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.

Northernrobm · 25-01-2014 10:28AM

and so the solution is to wear a pair of earphones walking past while shouting back the words I don't speak english in spanish and irish giving them a menacing look with slit throat actions combined with scratching my arse and muttering to myself all before i sign myself in because i feel guilty for not stopping in the first place. Liffey Valley here i come

25-01-2014 10:47AM

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Scum of the earth.

Yup **** everyone that dosent do your job

Plates · 25-01-2014 10:54AM

Sounds like a stall selling self confidence classes with a side order of social engagement is needed for a lot of posters on this thread.

littlelulu · 25-01-2014 11:20AM

I just tell chuggers or people that want a chat about a charity that I'm already signed up and making donations. They stop instantly and think you're a great person.

I tell anybody selling stuff that I already bought some from them. It confuses them and you have time to vanish

MonstaMash · 25-01-2014 11:37AM

'Entschuldigen Sie, aber ich spreche kein Englisch', works better than fook off I find

Canard · 25-01-2014 01:51PM

Best reaction to one of those people was by a friend of mine in Jervis one day. Had I not been there I would never have believed she'd said it, but she did!

she has long, REALLY curly hair and this day she'd straightened it but it wasnt dead straight, just nice and wavy.

Salesman: Hey, come over here and ill fix your hair
Her: what's wrong with my hair you bitch? I'll give you something to fix your bald spot ya cünt

His face was priceless :pac:

daRobot · 25-01-2014 02:04PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

can beggars afford earphones?

They can indeed, but there is only one pair to choose from.

Teyla Emmagan · 25-01-2014 02:17PM

Canard wrote: »

Best reaction to one of those people was by a friend of mine in Jervis one day. Had I not been there I would never have believed she'd said it, but she did! she has long, REALLY curly hair and this day she'd straightened it but it wasnt dead straight, just nice and wavy.

Salesman: Hey, come over here and ill fix your hair
Her: what's wrong with my hair you bitch? I'll give you something to fix your bald spot ya cünt

His face was priceless :pac:

She sounds like a lovely young lady.

UCDVet · 25-01-2014 02:23PM

I never understood why people get a free pass for their actions, so long as it is 'their job'? To me that just makes it worse.

LynnGrace · 25-01-2014 02:27PM

Some of them are very pushy, in my opinion. I know they are trying to sell a product, but they are over the top. I say no thank you, and they say 'have a nice day', but I get the feeling they don't mean it :rolleyes:...

Feeling Hassled in Shopping Centres

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