Please help me get rid of cold callers(i need a sticker) :(

Rain_is_Insane wrote: »

As for the researchers.....research that would help my local area, etc, I wouldn't mind doing, but they always seem to call in the evening. Yes i know most people are home in the evening therefore increasing the researchers chances of getting a taker, but they always seem to get me in the middle of my tea or when i'm just running a bath!! Perhaps if more of them asked politely if they could make an appointment to return with a questionnaire, people would be more accomodating.

The early evening work isn't so much to get more "hits" - we could get no end of them with the retired population or those who aren't working. It's really to ensure the survey work is representative of the community in which you live, with the right balance of men & women, working and not working etc. You can walk down a street at 3pm and get hardly any non-retired women at all - they're all off collecting the kids from school or still at work. Between lunchtime and 5/6pm you're lucky to get any working men - they too are still at work.

That's why much of the work is done in the early evenings. And it's difficult too nowadays to predict who is having their dinner and who isn't. Why ? Greater flexibility with working patterns. And, funnily enough, the microwave oven - whereas dinner took an hour from start to finish 20 years ago, for many people nowadays it's just a case of slapping something in the microwave and 5 minutes later it's "ping". TV is a huge influence too in how people plan their early evenings. Half the country seems to put the dinner on after Neighbours has finished on BBC1

Appointments aren't that effective to be honest. Whilst many people are receptive when you initially speak to them, many change their minds when they re-consider in your absence - and that's their right. No-one is ever forced to help & everyone has their own priorities in their free time.

But some contributors here will be encouraged by the many Councils who are now introducing by-laws which simply ban cold calling altogether. Perhaps that's a good thing. And it's the researchers who need to change the way they work. Who knows ?

What about looking through the window and then shouting "wait a minute" and after four of five minutes shout "Just a sec" and after another four of five minutes shout "commmmmmmming". Finally shout from one of the windows "I cant find the front door keys, could you come back in five minutes".

Repeat until death.

zappster1966 wrote: »

That's why much of the work is done in the early evenings. And it's difficult too nowadays to predict who is having their dinner and who isn't. Why ? Greater flexibility with working patterns. And, funnily enough, the microwave oven - whereas dinner took an hour from start to finish 20 years ago, for many people nowadays it's just a case of slapping something in the microwave and 5 minutes later it's "ping". TV is a huge influence too in how people plan their early evenings. Half the country seems to put the dinner on after Neighbours has finished on BBC1

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Are you suggesting that I watch neighbours???? :eek: :eek: :eek:

Good luck with your research

Tell them your not interested, could you not email the company they are working on behalf of and tell them your not interested in any DG

Tell them you love them. Tell them that you have some KY jelly warmed and ready.

Lick your lips and invite them in.