Pressure selling

kathrynha

Door step chuggers annoy me, especially as they tend to call as I'm cooking tea. Normally find that a simple not interested works, otherwise something on the stove requiring my attention is an excuse they can't argue with.

As for the ones in the street. Learn the sign language for 'sorry I can't hear you'. Works every time

MissWhitehouse

Too many of these scams out there at the moment. Amimal, Homeless and Poverty aid charities battering you on your doorstep or when you walk down the high street. The commissions paid to the collection companies is enormous and only a tiny percentage of your donation gets to where you intended. Give them all short shift or better still if you have the patience toy with them for as long as possible wasting their time.

On the subject of "charity" is it only me that gets irritated by the little green tokens a Waitrose checkouts. I often wonder if those people standing in the foyer deliberating about which slot to pop it in actually believe they have done their charitable duty for the week.......

Gavin83

I always see these types around town. Some are very annoying but I've become good at ignoring them.

Luckily I live in a gated community with a security door on my block of flats so I hardly ever get knocks on the door. I did have someone the other day though collecting for some animal charity. No idea how he got in, he must have followed someone through the door.

GoldenShadow

If they ignore my 'no thanks' then I tell them how dire I find their organisation and they soon toddle off.

An RSPCA branch had two dogs of the same breed come into rescue a couple weeks ago. Breed rescue offered to take them as they're quite quirky, and RSPCA said no. Breed rescue found the breeder who bred the dogs and KNOWS they are 3 and 4 years old from paperwork. RSPCA have them advertised as 7-8 years old each and said they are from a puppy farming background, which is completely false. They also had them listed as available within a couple of days, whereas the breed rescue spend a couple of weeks assessing them in different situations first. Very sad

pearl123

I tell all people that I don't take direct marketing calls. Including charity.

Goldiegirl

I just say 'no thank you' and shut the door to any cold callers or chuggers. I never get into a dialogue with them

Dozey_crow

We had this with the RSPCA last year. The chap went through his speel and I said I warmer interested in signing up. He said "oh that's a shame because all of your neighbors have signed up so you'd be the only one".

Really? -I asked. " really" he said firmly holding eye contact. I said that's interesting because the family next door are away, the Chap next to that is away with work and only returns weekends, the couple next to them are not in and the family at the end are on holiday. So you couldn't have spoken to any of them... Nice try..**ss off!.

He went.. Interestingly the rspca door knockers were on our street the other day and they have our house a wide berth! ��

MrSmartprice

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A straightforward 'no thank you' and simultaneously closing tne door usually does the trick. But as suggested, contact RSPCA, police & etc about these chuggers.
It's been suggested some kind of sign indicating 'no cold callers' is effective - it is, it tells door knockers a vulnerable person lives there so it's like putting out the welcome mat for them.

That's my tactic too, shut the door before they can reply. I have a sign on the door but some callers seem to have literacy issues.

If an RSPCA collector had said to me what they said to the OP, accusing them of not being animal lovers, I would have replied: "Nonsense, I love animals. My wife is in the kitchen cooking one as we speak.";)

nearlyrich

We have a sign on the door we rarely get cold callers but on the odd occasion that they do call I point at the sign and ask if they learned to read at school. Had one a couple of weeks ago I was part way through a work call and I said very pointedly to my customer please excuse me for a moment some muppet who can't read has just knocked on my door. He tried to go into his speil but I said read the sign and decide if it fits the description of what you are trying to do and if so please do one.. Customer was laughing for ages joys of working at home...

codemonkey

My most effective tactic for cold callers happened one day when the doorbell rang while I was in the middle of butchering rabbits for the dog (they were already dead - I wasn't killing them or anything) and I absent-mindedly answered the door wearing a blood stained apron and carrying a bloody knife. Never seen anyone run so fast.

These days I just either say "no thanks" and if that doesn't deter them, I tell them I'm the babysitter.