No Soliciting!

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What do I have to do, put flashing LEDs around my sign! My little sign says "NO SOLICITING....PERIOD!", right above the doorbell. Yesterday, right after I got home, the doorbell rang and the dogs and grandbabies go rip. Before I could get to the door, my daughter opens it (been told a thousand times, not to open the front door for ANYONE she doesn't know) and my son's dog tears butt down the street, my dog after him and the two three year olds after them!!!! The wife and son goes tearing butt after those four knuckle heads.

There was two women standing there with this look of horror on their face and I said "see this sign!!!"..."yes"..."what does it say?"..."yeah but your already a customer and we want to see if you want to upgrade your service". I said, "I'm not a customer anymore, get off my property!!!". I don't even know who they were with!!! It was so chaotic and I was so angry I could have bit nails.

Sorry, rant over...
 
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The people who train these people teach them to pay special attention to signs like yours, and be sure to try to make contact, because (according to them) people who post signs like yours do so because they can't say "no" to a sales pitch, and know that they are vulnerable.

I ain't sayin' it's right -- it's not -- but that's what I've been told.
 
vigil617 said:
The people who train these people teach them to pay special attention to signs like yours, and be sure to try to make contact, because (according to them) people who post signs like yours do so because they can't say "no" to a sales pitch, and know that they are vulnerable.

I ain't sayin' it's right -- it's not -- but that's what I've been told.
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I certainly hope a man with your insight into the human mind is at least a sales manager, or vice president in charge of sales at some very large corporation.
 
finesse_r said:
I certainly hope a man with your insight into the human mind is at least a sales manager, or vice president in charge of sales at some very large corporation.
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I honestly don't know whether to be flattered or insulted! :D

Not my idea, and not my words -- just passing along something heard along the way sometime.....
 
I deal with these Morons quickly and ruthlessly, They came to me, I didnt go looking for them. So they are fair game. Pious nitwits and sales dweebs with their little name badges, fecal grins and clip boards. I'm getting quite a knack for badgering them into stuttering snorts.
 
3dots said:
...the doorbell rang and the dogs and grandbabies go rip. Before I could get to the door, my daughter opens it (been told a thousand times, not to open the front door for ANYONE she doesn't know)...
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Sorry, but I'm so glad that I'm not the only one :D
 
At least they ring your bell.

Many a time I have had someone knock on the door, and I'll point to the doorbell and ask, "Can't you SEE that damn thing???"

I mean, seriously, why would I go through the hassle of installing a doorbell, if I wanted people to knock?
 
I get a few Magazine Salesman during the warm Months and I call the Police because They usually don't have the required Permit to peddle Their junk so They are told to leave the City.
Unless They are local Kid's or Girl Scouts selling Cookies.I'm a Sucker for Girl Scout Cookies.
 
The neighbors that I care to associate with know not to come to my door so anyone else is ignored.

I have had several solicitors try to approach as I sat just outside my garage.If eye contact is made before they get close I tell them "I don't care what you want I'm not interested."

I was seconds away from turning the garden hose on a couple of church goers who walked up the driveway even after being told that I was in no way interested in having a conversation with them.

Once you leave the "protection" of the sidewalk and come onto my property you are subject to what ever mood I am currently in.Anyone who comes to my house in an uninvited guest unless I'm expecting them.I treat people the way I expect to be treated and those that know me don't have a problem with it.
 
vigil617 said:
The people who train these people teach them to pay special attention to signs like yours, and be sure to try to make contact, because (according to them) people who post signs like yours do so because they can't say "no" to a sales pitch, and know that they are vulnerable.

I ain't sayin' it's right -- it's not -- but that's what I've been told.
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I did door to door sales very briefly after I got out of the Army.

During my orientation I was told the above specifically and explicitly.

It's not a myth
 
1st amendment can be suspended by a local ordinance. Be careful what you wish for. No tresspassing has more power than no soliciting. I canvas which is technically not soliciting. I honor no soliciting signs if posted because there may be a baby or 3rd shift worker sleeping. I do not want to make a person with mobility problems have to get up and come to the door. I have had many conversations saying hello to people in yards or on porches who had no problem with what I do where I notice that they have a no soliciting sign on the door when walking further down the street. I treat people the way I would like to be treated. i can walk away from a bad attitude. The person with it carrys it with them for far longer. My old customer support job was outsourced over to Pakistan after my company decided that it would be cheaper than letting people retire. I am lucky to have my current job in this global job market.
 
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i have No Tresspassing signs all over the place they work pretty good in my county i have to have them posted evrey 50 feet by county law in case there is a problem i can have them arrested. But still every now and then that sign does not pertain to some people. then they wonder y i yell at them
 
I didn't do sales for a long time but it was quite an education. I worked with guys that knocked on doors like that just to piss people off. They didn't care if you bought or not they just thought it was funny to watch your face get purple and your veins pop out.

I don't waste my energy on sales people. They knock, I ask who is it and as soon as they start their pitch I tell them I'm not interested and I go sit down.

I never even open the door
 
Where I used to live in the suburbs we got visited regularly by a well know church group that many people including me feel are a super pain in the Gluiest Maximus. After many years of their visits (Telling them with more forceful language each time) I finely got rid of them by calling their hall and telling the head guy there if they ever came back I would be at their next service and moon the whole congregation!

With that said we got a few magazine peddlers and as another poster said most have no permits, so a call to the local cop shop got them bounced out of town. The usual pests at election time. Girl scouts/boy scouts always welcome!

Now where I live which is at the end of a long uphill curvy 1/4 mile gravel driveway miles out in the boonies unwanted visitors are few and far between.:D

On occasion we do get someone that says they are looking for the Smiths or Jonses and as this is a lake/vacation area with many unmarked driveways I will try to help them out if I’m outside when they show up. Most just turn around and go back down. If I get the chance when these incursions happen I do write down license plate numbers just in case something happens in future (so far so good)
 
Back at the old house when I still had a legal right I'd ask for their permit. The managers got it in the van. No Sir that won't work. You have to have one on you to show me. Then I badged them. They would leave he neighborhood. Was such fun. Have not had much trouble here however. Of course the people on either side don't talk to me. You think it could be me????
 
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