Want to Rid Yourself of Door to Door Sales People for Good? (Plus Giveaway)
If there is one thing that I detest even more than telemarketers ringing me up at dinner-time, or whilst I’m bathing the kids, it’s door-to-door salesman turning up on my doorstep.
Like many Australians, I’m of the opinion that if I want to buy something I will come and find you. Don’t come knocking on my door, disrupting my family’s routine with your pushy sales-pitch. I’m not in the habit of being rude or abrupt to anyone, and I resent having to resort to being blunt or risk being sucked into a conversation I don’t want to have, with a person I don’t know, about a product or service I don’t need. It is my pet peeve!
Nobody wants to be rude to another person by closing the door on them or by being abrupt, particularly not in front of their impressionable young children – but really? Sometimes pushy salespeople leave you no other option! And in your own home – that really isn’t a trade-off you should be forced to make!
We do have a ‘Do Not Knock’ sticker on the front door, but often times that has proven to be an insubstantial deterrent. By the time the door-to-door salesman has made it down the driveway and set our dogs off barking, one of the children has usually opened the door expecting one of their friends or a grandparent to be visiting, only to be greeted by the salesperson who hasn’t had any need to knock the door and who possibly hasn’t even seen the sign yet! Urgh! And whilst I find it to be a frustrating inconvenience, I know that older people, my elderly grandmother included, can often feel very nervous about answering the door to strangers. It’s such a nuisance – and an invasion of privacy!
Older people often feel very nervous when uninvited and unknown peopleknock on their door. They have a right, like the rest of us, to feel safe in their own homes.
If this sounds all too familiar to you, you’ll be pleased to hear that there is a simple and effective solution available!
Law in Action trespass signs
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In fact, each trespass sign kit comes with a 68 page ‘Law in Action’ handbook which clearly explains your rights to quiet enjoyment in your own home free from harassment. Furthermore, if they refused to leave, you are entitled to sue them for damages – now that should make any unwanted callers think twice before entering your property! It doesn’t matter whether you are a landowner or a tenant in a rented home – the trespass to land law protects the person who has ‘exclusive possession’ of a property. The Law in Action’ handbook will help you learn how to stop unwanted door knockers for good!
I think that $19.95 for peace of mind, privacy and an understanding of my rights in my own home is a small price to pay – I’d gladly pay double that not to ever have to deal with another pushy salesperson when I’m trying to dish up my family’s dinner! Don’t you?
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The Giveaway
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Jolene
Jolene enjoys writing, sharing and connecting with other like-minded women online – it also gives her the perfect excuse to ignore Mount-Washmore until it threatens to bury her family in an avalanche of Skylander T-shirts and Frozen Pyjama pants. (No one ever knows where the matching top is!) Likes: Reading, cooking, sketching, dancing (preferably with a Sav Blanc in one hand), social media, and sitting down on a toilet seat that one of her children hasn’t dripped, splashed or sprayed on. Dislikes: Writing pretentious crap about herself in online bio’s and refereeing arguments amongst her offspring.
Annoying
I was busy cooking and my daughter answered the knock on the door. The sales lady asked for her Mama. When my daughter came to me the sales lady opened the storm door and came inside my house without being invited inside. When I saw the lady inside my house I asked her to leave. A few days later, I got an insulting letter from the sales lady about my rudeness and she suggested that I was mental unbalanced and needed help.
People from charities that pretty much force you into signing up for regular donations.
I had some mormon boys try to sell me on their religion, they kept sending more of them for months so I stopped answering the door.
2 charity door knockers came the other week completely ignorning the TWO do not knock stickers on the door insisting that its ok because though they were asking for money they werent selling anything. Then one of them asked me if im pregnant (im not, I had my second 5 months ago)
Then after my toddler wanted to check the mail so we walked down the driveway to find them making out on the side of the road.
It was someone from a “charity.” I got suspicious when his pack looked very amateurish and he wanted my credit card details. I asked whether I could keep the pack and think about it before donating, but he sensed I was onto him and he took flight.
Door to Door Salesperson who told me that he had a legitimate right to enter my premises to sell regardless of it being a public holiday and having a do not door knock preventing sellers from door knocking at my home. This person was told that he would be reported. He continued to door knock down a few more houses when I caught up with him and obtained all of his workplace details.
I reported this person and I later found out that the supervisor had also advised certain sellers to door knock on this public holiday.
One time there was a guy trying to sell us security, and he was really pushy. It seemed really sketchy and we called the police. Later, he came back to tell us that he was able to tell the police that he was legit. But that was still creepy that he came back to tell us.
The sneakiest sales people I had was the Kirby group. I thought I was getting free carpet cleaning (expecting them to clean the rest for a small fee) but instead it was a 3 hour ordeal where at one stage he was faked needing the toilet so he could call for back up. Could not get him to leave. And he only cleaned 1 patch of the carpet anyway!
Once a salesman knocked on my door when I was in bed sick, as I was expecting my kids home from school I got up to answer, the salesman made some smart arse comment about my being lucky to be able to lie around in bed all day!