Just told salesman to GO.
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Just had a funny experience at my front door. I went to answer the door and there was a young guy there saying he was fron Southern Electric and do I want to check his ID or phone them up to check.
He proceeded in saying "is this your postcode" so I said yes, then he said "do you know you are paying a high tariff for you electric". I said I'm not interested in changing my tariff or interested in talking to somebody about sales, because it was obvious where the conversation was going.
After I told him I wasn't interested I expected him to say "ok sir thank you for your time" or something like that.
Instead he seemed to get closer to my door, nearly treading inside and was pulling some strange faces as though he was amazed I didn't want to speak with him.
Actually I found his manner to become a bit threatening and at this time I started to lose my temper, through fear probably.
So I told him to piss off and he still stood there, at this time I could feel violence brewing up inside me and I had visions of forcing him to move.
So I told him "look mate just f
k off, so he still stood there and said "I haven't come 10,000 kms to be spoken to like that" and then left.
It was a very bizarre moment, I have never spoken to anybody like that knocking at my door before. This guy definately brought out something in me. After 10 minutes I thought, did I overreact? I don't think so, as I'm usually a good judge of character and definately felt something was not right.
Has anybody else felt a bit threatened at their door?
Grouch.
He proceeded in saying "is this your postcode" so I said yes, then he said "do you know you are paying a high tariff for you electric". I said I'm not interested in changing my tariff or interested in talking to somebody about sales, because it was obvious where the conversation was going.
After I told him I wasn't interested I expected him to say "ok sir thank you for your time" or something like that.
Instead he seemed to get closer to my door, nearly treading inside and was pulling some strange faces as though he was amazed I didn't want to speak with him.
Actually I found his manner to become a bit threatening and at this time I started to lose my temper, through fear probably.
So I told him to piss off and he still stood there, at this time I could feel violence brewing up inside me and I had visions of forcing him to move.
So I told him "look mate just f
k off, so he still stood there and said "I haven't come 10,000 kms to be spoken to like that" and then left. It was a very bizarre moment, I have never spoken to anybody like that knocking at my door before. This guy definately brought out something in me. After 10 minutes I thought, did I overreact? I don't think so, as I'm usually a good judge of character and definately felt something was not right.
Has anybody else felt a bit threatened at their door?
Grouch.
I actually had a burgular alarm salesman ring my door once, I just pointed to the big burgular alarm box nailed to my house and waved goodbye to him.
Denser than a black hole that's just received a F- in density studies.
Edited for dense spelling mistake
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 14th December 18:01
Denser than a black hole that's just received a F- in density studies.
Edited for dense spelling mistake
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 14th December 18:01
I had a double glasing salesmen come to the door once... after saying "is your dad in?" I knew it wasn't going to go very far!! he proceeded with
"Oh, so you own the house then or is it a council house?"
This is a victorian semi in a completely private road, however I just said.. "If it was a fuing council house it would already have double glazing now fuk off!" - He got the message after that.
Had another one who went on about changing the electricity etc - told him to go away and eventualyl he got the message and said o.k. mate don't want to hassle you. However, if you could just sign to say I've been here as I get paid on how many people I speak to... He showed me the pad and I read where he wanted me to sign - it was basically the bit to sign to say you wanted to transfer it all over. flung his pad over his head into next doors garden. Shut door. end of conversation.
JC
"Oh, so you own the house then or is it a council house?"
This is a victorian semi in a completely private road, however I just said.. "If it was a fu
ing council house it would already have double glazing now fuk off!" - He got the message after that. Had another one who went on about changing the electricity etc - told him to go away and eventualyl he got the message and said o.k. mate don't want to hassle you. However, if you could just sign to say I've been here as I get paid on how many people I speak to... He showed me the pad and I read where he wanted me to sign - it was basically the bit to sign to say you wanted to transfer it all over. flung his pad over his head into next doors garden. Shut door. end of conversation.
JC
jconsta6 said:
Had another one who went on about changing the electricity etc - told him to go away and eventualyl he got the message and said o.k. mate don't want to hassle you. However, if you could just sign to say I've been here as I get paid on how many people I speak to... He showed me the pad and I read where he wanted me to sign - it was basically the bit to sign to say you wanted to transfer it all over. flung his pad over his head into next doors garden. Shut door. end of conversation.
JC
Such cheeky feckers aren't they. Then they go bleating on about its just them trying to earn a living...
Well tough pal, i can earn a living without standing on someones door step, conning them by deception so why the hell can't you..? 
A bit OT, but funny all the same. My mother once answered the door to some Mormons. She promptly told them that her husband was a Communist and that he had a shot gun so they had better go quickly before he got home. That was the last time any Mormons came to call 
>> Edited by EmmaP on Tuesday 14th December 19:13
>> Edited by EmmaP on Tuesday 14th December 19:13
Our entire garden is covered in pattern imprinted concrete, fairly new, about 18 months old.
In the door this morning I found a flyer for someone trying to sell pattern imprinted concrete
Did it not occur to them after walking over 20 feet of pattern imprinted concrete that we probably wouldn't be interested in buying any?
In the door this morning I found a flyer for someone trying to sell pattern imprinted concrete
Did it not occur to them after walking over 20 feet of pattern imprinted concrete that we probably wouldn't be interested in buying any?
Muncher said:
Our entire garden is covered in pattern imprinted concrete, fairly new, about 18 months old.
In the door this morning I found a flyer for someone trying to sell pattern imprinted concrete
Did it not occur to them after walking over 20 feet of pattern imprinted concrete that we probably wouldn't be interested in buying any?
They probably couldn't see the concrete for all the bits and bobs that have fallen off that rover
I know a guy who invited a mormon into his house to discuss things further, he locked the door behind him and kept the bloke in the lounge sitting silent for 30mins before the poor sod asked if he could be allowed to leave.
Must have worked because he's never mentioned being interupted by them since.
groucho said:
Just had a funny experience at my front door. I went to answer the door and there was a young guy there saying he was from Southern Electric and do I want to check his ID or phone them up to check.
He proceeded in saying "is this your postcode" so I said yes, then he said "do you know you are paying a high tariff for you electric".
We've also had Southern Electric knocking on the doors in our area and a young (very handsome!) chap proceeded with the sales spiel exactly as you described above. He asked to come inside my house despite having assured me he'd only need a couple of minutes of my time which I thought was rather odd. So, for his cheek, I decided to play along for a while and made him stand outside while he explained the different tariffs etc. Half an hour later
he was, by this time, sitting on the porch step with bits of paper everywhere. And when he asked me to sign on the dotted line, I politely declined his invitation to do so, saying I had changed my mind! 
Just had a great idea for the next time an unwanted salesman knocks on the door.
Get an old white butchers apron, cover it in blood (anything red) and keep a large blooded knife handy which you pick up in one hand along with some generic sales literature Then open the door and watch the salesman quickly disappear down the road.
Get an old white butchers apron, cover it in blood (anything red) and keep a large blooded knife handy which you pick up in one hand along with some generic sales literature Then open the door and watch the salesman quickly disappear down the road.
What you need to be aware of is that a lot of these door step sales people and similar are following an employer instruction is that only when they have had five consecutive no answers can they accept that the customer really does mean no.
Asking for proper id and wanting to see their street traders licence quickly gets rid of a few though.
Asking for proper id and wanting to see their street traders licence quickly gets rid of a few though.
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