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Fedup with Cold Callers

I am absolutely fed-up with cold callers at my door who ignore my notice, so I am thinking of novel ways to deter cold callers from calling.

Here are some ideas for NO COLD CALLERS SIGNS...

1. Cold Callers will be hung, drawn and quartered

2. Cold Callers will be clamped, towed away and crushed

3. Cold Callers will be fined £50

4. Cold Callers are videoed and reported to the Police

5. Cold Callers will be required to donate their soul to the devil (to stop Jehovah's Witnesses)

6. Cold Callers are sprayed with even colder DNA Water

7. Cold Callers will be warmed up with a flame thrower
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  • moonrakerz
    moonrakerz Posts: 8,650 Forumite
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    A large sign saying:

    "I AM a Jehovah's Witness - all are welcome"
  • Blobby8_2
    Blobby8_2 Posts: 2,009 Forumite
    It is your duty to invite these people into your home and waste as much of their time as possible.
    The more time you waste the fewer people they get to bother and the less likely they are to knock on my door.
    The more of them you irritate , the more of them will give up and get proper jobs.
    Always let them organize a follow up call if possible, to measure for double glazing whatever.
    Never give them any bank details or money and do it on your own (greater ssatisfaction).
    My record is an iinvestments salesman 4 hours. Witnesses 2 hours.
  • Paul_Varjak
    Paul_Varjak Posts: 4,627 Forumite
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    moonrakerz wrote: »
    A large sign saying:

    "I AM a Jehovah's Witness - all are welcome"

    How about...

    "Only agnostics live here - we don't need converting"
  • Paul_Varjak
    Paul_Varjak Posts: 4,627 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    I have kept a few 419 fraudsters on tenterhooks and also a recliner chair salesman. I even reported the recliner chair company to the Advertising Standards Authority who required them to remove their false claims.
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    Cold Callers Will Be Treated Rudely - You Have Been Warned.
  • Jalepeno
    Jalepeno Posts: 14 Forumite
    All very amusing and I hesitate to be serious but - how about lobbying your MP to make cold calling illegal. This would be welcomed by all the enforcement authorities.
  • WestonDave
    WestonDave Posts: 5,154 Forumite
    Rampant Recycler
    Notice to Cold Callers - While I am waiting for my bankruptcy and eviction to come through, please feel free to come in for a chat. All my current stalking victims have obtained court orders so I am somewhat bored. Yours J Bloggs.

    PS Be careful to hop when you go back down the drive as there are extra terrestrials hiding in the hedge who abduct two legged beings.
    Adventure before Dementia!
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    I just never answer the door.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • Paul_Varjak
    Paul_Varjak Posts: 4,627 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Notice to COLD CALLERS

    My ROTTWEILLER Attacks on Command
  • Paul_Varjak
    Paul_Varjak Posts: 4,627 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    "Here are the names and addresses of the cold callers who ignored my signs..."
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