Junk leaflets and cards

Abbafan1972

All the takeaway menus and leaflets just go straight in my recycling box. Charity bags go in the bin. Simples.

Not worth getting stressed over!

Valli

Santander_Problems wrote: »

I have a sign on my door indicating no junk mail and a second sign which says we don't deal with doorstep traders.

Earlier this week, I received a visit from a female asking if I was interested in recliner chairs/beds. I asked her to respect my sign and leave but she would not take no for an answer. She claimed she saw the No junk Mail sign but said she did not see the sign indicating no doorstep traders. She leant against my front door when I went close it.

I took the company details, phoned them and said I was interested in their equipment. I was asked for my postcode and after giving only the first half of the post code they said they could send someone the same day. We arranged a convenient time.

The 'advisor' turned up 45 minutes early so I sent him packing, telling him to come back at the agreed time. He then spent 75 minutes in my home extolling the virtues of a rise/recline chair. The last 15 minutes were spent negotiating a price.

During his visit he showed me letters from 'satisfied' customers. Whilst he went out to his van to get the chair I photgraphed all the letters and later contacted the customers who wrote them!

It turned out they were genuine customers who had written commendations BEFORE receiving their product. They were not so happy after they received those products and had been unable to get their money back!! The oldest was aged 91 and the youngest 78.

If you still have this information you could pass it on to Age UK and/or Trading Standards;)

ILW

GMbabies wrote: »

Yep, I deserve about £200 millinon IMHO
Anyway, how did you work that out on the basis of 30 seconds?
But the amount we get in a month, I have a feeling that it might just become a full-time job, you know, picking up the rubbish, time it takes to draft a letter, cost of printing out the letter, posting it, filing etc, all that admin that comes with it.

As someone said, one man's litter is another man's gold.
People do it all the time. Look India, kids pick up bottles and cans and get money from recycling. So I can't see why I can't make money out of junks. If the business don't like it, they shouldn't have littered our place in the first place.

I shall get in touch with a solicitor to discuss the matter.
Do you think property lawyer handle these kind of things?

I would suggest you may be better just upping your medication a little.

Dave_C_2

eyelinerprincess wrote: »

Assuming you are charging £200 for 30 seconds, that's £400/minute
There are 1440 minutes per day (60x24), so £576,000 per day.
£576,000 x 365 days = £210,240,000

Not quite, the amount you invoice the client is probably several times your salary to take into account overheads. At 4 times the salary this works out at £100 per minute.
If you figure a normal 37.5 hour week at 46 weeks in the year you get a salary of about £10 million.

Also compare the £200 with the cost of solicitor's letters or bank letters, suddenly it becomes reasonable.

Dave

pmduk

GMbabies wrote: »

But what you are suggesting is to just grin and bare it, hey.
We are only small and people should walk all over us

Actually, I'm saying keep a sense of proportion. If you've nothing more to worry about in life, you're a lucky person. We live in a society based upon capitalism, advertising, in its various forms is one of the drawbacks.


Richard Bach wrote, "perspective, use it or lose it."

Krojan

I've given up trying to stop them using signage and even registering with that royal mail opt out service didnt even stop them from dropping bloody pizza menus in with my mail, instead I've resorted to using an old motion sensing cat deterrent that squirts water that was in my garage, becomes amusing watching people getting squirted if they get too close to the door to drop their junk. Most of the local leafleters have learnt pretty quickly to not try, just have to remember to turn it off for the postie.