Shocking behaviour - old folk targeted for door-to-door sales

lilac_lady

I've got a notice saying "no cold callers" but it gets ignored. I can see who's at the front door and I don't answer it if I don't know the person on the doorstep even if they can see that I'm in the house.

hollydays

I know someone who was taken in by the Boiler room scam-telephone cold calling.We tried to warn them,but there is none so blind as those who think no-one can pull the wool over their eyes.

nutsohazelnuts

jamespir wrote: »

thats a scam (it was on the real hustle last week) not door to door sellers we have no authority to cut of peoples electric and would never suggest we could

Our neighbour did as he asked and has been switched over to Southern Electric I think she said. Her daughter in law was livid about it when I bumped into them in Waitrose.

I'm quite sure that you are an honourable man, but this fella certainly wasn't.

marleyboy

The way I see it is, if there is a product I am particularly interested in buying, I shop around, compare prices and buy it. Anybody who has a good reputation for their products, do not need to be desperately knocking on doors to tout for a sale.

ONLY those companies struggling to sell, struggling to get customers or gain a trusting reputation will go around knocking on doors to sell their unsellable junk. I dont recall ever having Sony knock on my door asking if I might be interested in a PS3, and the list is endless.

I go out of my way sometimes to these irritating "oh I will just knock on this door and ask", by reminding them, if I was even slightly interested in buying such junk, I would go out and buy it. I dont need anybody reminding me such junk exists, just in case.

Anything that needs a salesman to knock on a door in order to gain a sale, is a clear indication of unsellable junk, extortionate prices and\or a scam. If a product really is "that good", it will sell itself.

sharnad

just had a door step call young women must have been about 18-20 asking me if I had started to receive my calls for free as I was now in a free call area- no id - cheap pad of paper with some scribbled numbers on told her I would telephone my phone company to ask (without telling her who it was) can you not get a ban in place for certain areas no doorstep callers allowed

Now why would anyone give their details to this girl