Cold callers

Rupert_Bear

I accept receiving a catalogue through the door is not a big deal. However when you clearly have a notice in the window advising no cold callers and we do not buy from the door I would have expected the person to have had more sense.

My significant half said we should have just binned it but I will definately do this in the future.

fluffnutter

That's not much that will deter the hardened Bettaware or Kleeneze representative, and most people will experience periods of receiving these catalogues. If you can get hold of the person delivering you can always ask that they stop delivering to you, or put a note in with the returned catalogue (they'll ignore cold caller notices because they're not actually calling). Bear in mind that the representatives for each area change fairly frequently so you might find that one person stops only for their replacement to start up again.

One thing to remember... the catalogues are not your property. They are unsolicited goods and there are laws around unsolicited goods. If you contact the provider to come and collect the goods, they must do so within 30 days, after which time they will become yours if uncollected. If you don't contact the provider, you must keep the goods safe for six months, again, after which point they become yours.

What you can't do is throw them in the bin. Technically the representative would be perfectly within their rights to ask you to reimburse them the cost of the catalogue. Whilst your argument might be "well, stop putting them through my door, you asked for it", the law will support them, not you. It's not illegal to post most things through letter boxes. Bombs, yes, Bettaware catalogues, no.

cyberbob

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

I accept receiving a catalogue through the door is not a big deal. However when you clearly have a notice in the window advising no cold callers and we do not buy from the door I would have expected the person to have had more sense.

My significant half said we should have just binned it but I will definately do this in the future.

The best thing to do is leave them outside as they request. But forget to put it in the bag. You are then returning the item but there is a huge chance it will be unusable for them which costs them money.

NeverInDebt

Trouble is some of them dont have any sense as you say or too pig ignorant or show any respect for other peoples wishes

If people, go out of there way to avoid chuggers, tell people to stop bothering you on phone or put a notice then respect there wishes

Not everyone wants to be bothered by cold callers, crap mail, catalogues or chuggers

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

I accept receiving a catalogue through the door is not a big deal. However when you clearly have a notice in the window advising no cold callers and we do not buy from the door I would have expected the person to have had more sense.

My significant half said we should have just binned it but I will definately do this in the future.

trisontana

Regarding Chuggers there is always this solution!

BillTrac

fluffnutter wrote: »

One thing to remember... the catalogues are not your property. They are unsolicited goods and there are laws around unsolicited goods. If you contact the provider to come and collect the goods, they must do so within 30 days, after which time they will become yours if uncollected. If you don't contact the provider, you must keep the goods safe for six months, again, after which point they become yours.

What you can't do is throw them in the bin. Technically the representative would be perfectly within their rights to ask you to reimburse them the cost of the catalogue. Whilst your argument might be "well, stop putting them through my door, you asked for it", the law will support them, not you. It's not illegal to post most things through letter boxes. Bombs, yes, Bettaware catalogues, no.

I'd like to see them prove that they had posted their c**p through my letterbox...!!

I always throw unwanted catalogues/leaflets/menus straight in the recycling bin. I COULD leave the catalogues back outside on my doorstep..but who wants that rubbish on show all the time?

If I want to buy anything I will go and search for it, be it on the Internet, or in shops I know sell the item I am looking for.

Robert2009

the law will support them

care to reveal what law this is?

dizziblonde

I have a bin by the front door that all charity bags/free papers/pizza leaflets/junk goes straight into.

I did have a sign up all the election campaign saying that if any canvassers knocked on or put leaflets through the door I'd be voting for the other guy - was left in blissful peace, which considering we were one of the target seat marginals, was quite an achievement.

One of the things I love about having a porch with an inner and outer door - I just open the inner door and if I see anyone wearing a charity tabard, holding a clipboard, bible, or a pile of double glazing leaflets - I just turn around and go back inside.

Now telephone callers... bane of my life - I would love to get my hands on the owner of the latest automated dialler doing the rounds around here - I could think of a huge array of ways to torture them when it calls me for the THIRD TIME IN ONE FLIPPING DAY!

heretolearn_2

'What you can't do is throw them in the bin.'

That's what I always do now. I don't order from them and I used to put them back outside for collection, but they often just got left there and not recollected and I'd end up with a pile of them on my doorstep. We must have a lot of distributers round here because we get loads of Avon/Betterware brochures all the time. There are 3 sitting in my recycling box right now just from this week! So sod'em. None of them are actually going to be silly enough to try and recover the cost of the catalogue, but if they did, there's no way to prove they posted it through to us.

anyway, I don't think a catalogue comes under the category of 'goods' - it's an advertisement, not 'goods' in itself. No different to junk mail.

Oopsadaisy

fluffnutter wrote: »

That's not much that will deter the hardened Bettaware or Kleeneze representative, and most people will experience periods of receiving these catalogues. If you can get hold of the person delivering you can always ask that they stop delivering to you, or put a note in with the returned catalogue (they'll ignore cold caller notices because they're not actually calling). Bear in mind that the representatives for each area change fairly frequently so you might find that one person stops only for their replacement to start up again.

One thing to remember... the catalogues are not your property. They are unsolicited goods and there are laws around unsolicited goods. If you contact the provider to come and collect the goods, they must do so within 30 days, after which time they will become yours if uncollected. If you don't contact the provider, you must keep the goods safe for six months, again, after which point they become yours.

What you can't do is throw them in the bin. Technically the representative would be perfectly within their rights to ask you to reimburse them the cost of the catalogue. Whilst your argument might be "well, stop putting them through my door, you asked for it", the law will support them, not you. It's not illegal to post most things through letter boxes. Bombs, yes, Bettaware catalogues, no.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.............er, ....wrong.

They are not 'goods'....... they are direct marketing and as such you can [and should] bin or burn them.

Sign says no leaflets and muppets leave catalogues....how thick are they??? They deserve to go broke [as >98% of these over-priced plastic tat merchants do].