always answer in underwear. tighty whities preferably, brown streak in back always encouraged. even when i went to church regularly i discouraged the marketing gimmick of door to door jesus sales. leave people alone, they know where church is. If i want a vacuum, i know where to go.
I use to door knock so I feel some empathy for them. Lots of these guys are living hard lives, they have no skills and have been conned into a shitty commission only sales job with a pyramid type scheme, and they are working 12+ hours a day for what amounts to pennies on a bad day. So generally my attitude with them is stop the hype sales bullshit, tell me what you've got and Ill tell you if I want it. If they cant get out of their pitch mode in about 15 seconds to tell me their product then I shut the door in their face, because they are wasting my time and theirs. Their job is a complete numbers game, 1 in 10 is a sale so the good ones take a no and move to the next house, the bad ones get caught up on a no and keep trying to push the sale because they havent sold shit all day and are stressed about it. So wasting their time, pretending you might be interested because you are to polite to just say no, is te worse thing you can do for everybody involved. I rarely buy things from them because if I don't already want it then Im probably not going to spend money on it, but I have bought a few things. As a door knocker I have some great stories, I did it for almost 2 years. I caught people fucking, had offers for sex, had people open the door naked (on purpose), my buddy caught a guy fucking a rubber doll. Got chased by all sorts of dogs. People love getting the delievery/sales guy stoned also. For a 18 year old kid it was actually a great time, except for the money part, and on a good day you can actually earn some good cash. Tip: do not be excessively rude to these people, most of them are young and in your neighborhood all day and evening. We use to take extreme joy in coming back to extreme assholes houses' after dark to shit in their mailbox or whatever else we felt like they deserved.
I tell them "if the next words out if your mouth aren't the price, I'm shutting the door." Love the look on their face.
I hate door to door sales people also. I always just say "no thanks" before they start their sales pitch and most of the time they walk away. If they dont, I say "I dont buy from solicitors, so dont waste your time trying to sell me stuff I dont want".
Don't know what local law is, but I got REALLY pissed by all the competing pizza places in town putting their stuff on my door handle. Every damn day I had to chase flying papers in my garden. (Gardeners get really pissed about trash in our creations.) I tried calling the places, got no help, put up "No soliciation, absolutely no pizza ad", no help, they told me the people putting up signs were mostly Spanish speaking so I put up signs in Spanish, put tape over doorknob, still got signs. Needless to say I never went to any of the crappy pizza places. When I checked I found out that a no solicitation sign carries no legal weight, and that the path to a door is considered public access even if on private property. So no legal outlet. I get solicitations from the Mormons. They had the gall to come to my door the day after Prop H8 passed, due largely to the millions of dollars from their church. I let them know in my best Sproul Plaza Rally voice NO GAY HATERS IN THIS HOME!!! I did have 2 gay male friends who say the Jehovah's Witnesses coming up the path. They quickly stripped off their clothes, answered the door stark naked with their arms around each other and said can we help you? The Witnesses did not want to witness that and split.
I haven't had many sales folk at my door in the past few years, and when they come I say "no thanks" and shut the door the second I figure out their purpose. However, I do get religious people proselytizing fairly often. For them, I interrupt and show them my mezuzah (Hebrew scripture) hanging on my door frame like most Jews have. Then I explain the mezuzah and that every time they encounter one, they should skip that house. I'm never rude about it, I just try to be informative. Then I shut the door and return to my life. And yes, I still have a mezuzah even though I don't believe. Mine was given to me by my grandmother and it makes me feel connected to my Jewish community even if I don't buy the jive.
I was polite, but said I was not interested multiple times. That I know someone that offers their Product if I wanted it too. The fact she tried to tell me that my dogs would die from a certain spider if I didn't use their Product is ridiculous. and the fact that my family was waiting for me at my car and she blindly ignored that was outrageous. Point blank I had to be a dick to get her to leave me alone. which honestly is not that hard for me to do, my job can be very confrontational at times so I'm used to it. Did you make it a habit of going to doors with no soliciting signs?
Yes, I knocked on every door and talked to every person possible. In fact we specifically knocked on no soliciting doors for a laugh and often ended up with a sale. No one cares about your stupid sign bro.
Those laws are laughable, good luck with that. If it really bothers you that much your best bet is a big fence and a big dog.
Let this be a warning to Girl Scouts selling cookies or some band kid selling pepperoni, knock on my door and you will go to jail!
Yes, because those are the exact same as a grown up trying to instill fear for my so called childtrns lives and being rude.
A no trespassing sign carries more weight than a no soliciting sign, in most areas. No trespassing usually covers your entire property out to the public access area. If you are not sure, have a sign made that states clearly no trespassing and no soliciting. The problem is, enforcement varies by location. Example: in many rural areas, entering any property that has a no trespassing sign will get you arrested for criminal trespass. The local enforcement officers respond quickly. In large cities, good luck. In some areas, just entering a fenced area without permission is enough to get you arrested for criminal trespass. Again, enforcement varies by location. I would answer the door with a camera or video recorder for evidence. They probably will not hang around long when you are taking their picture. BTW, years ago I had the police come out to remove a girlfriend that had worn out her welcome. She refused to leave when I asked, and the police came to my home and made her leave. I never filed charges, just wanted her gone.
No. But i've had like 3 of those fuckers the past week. My dogs go ape shit and i dont answer the door. Eventually they leave. But i'm gonna put up a new sign and see if it helps. If not, i'm gonna start thinking of ways to fuck with them.
