Anglian Windows - door to door guys swearing at customers

Joelleski

Tell them you're a student - they couldn't get away quicker then ... works for me (even though I havent been a student in 20 years haha!)

Mr._Pastry_2

It's a numbers game. If you knock on so many doors and speak to, say 50 people, 1 person may express an interest in double glazing. If you then arrange to give these interested people a free quote, about 1 in 5 will buy. So you've just got to speak to about 250 people to get a sale.

Mr. Pastry

loopdaloop

An easy way to get rid of them is to tell them that either

A> Its rented
B> Council
C> Housing Association

They'll have nothing to say.

trisontana

Or just tell that you never buy anything from somebody who has to knock on doors to drum up trade. If the product/service was any good they wouldn't have to resort to such tactics. A simple leaflet through the door should be good enough.

sashman

reallity is that the best part of 30% of the business still comes from leaflet drops/cold calling.

still theres more red tape coming next year and a great opportunity for people to raise issues like this during the consumer awarness week (starts setember 14th I think).

sashman,

Volcano

sashman wrote: »

reallity is that the best part of 30% of the business still comes from leaflet drops/cold calling.

That'll be the 30% of the adult population who don't have the internet, which is mainly the elderly:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5494558/Millions-without-internet-access-do-not-want-broadband-finds-Ofcom.html

What's the betting this elderly % are easier to rip-off with pressured sales tactics?