Don't you hate it when people show up at your door trying to sell stuff?!

Question

This is so annoying, and extremely awkward. Also a waste of time. It should be outlawed! Like, if you don't want to make a donation, are you just supposed to say no to their face after they gave you like a ten minute lecture about their program? How can they just take up our precious time like that? Now, I just resort to not answering the door unless I know who it is, and if I don't know who it is, I hide and pretend like I'm not home. One time this guy came and my dad answered the door and he gave this really long lecture of information and my dad waited until the end of his speech to refuse, so after my dad closed the door he got really pissed off and kicked over our front flower pot spilling the dirt everywhere. Does anyone agree that people shouldn't be allowed to do this? (Or forced to for their job?)

Answer 1

OMG yes!

You should invite the mormons in and then offer them drugged tea...

Oh thats right, they don't drink tea it has caffiene MY BAD

Answer 2

the only people doing this stuff now is naive kids trying to sell candy, and believers trying to sell religion. I don't answer the door for either.

Answer 3

Not really, 'cuz the Schnauzer nuts up whenever the doorbell rings, and I tell whoever's there they got five seconds to GTFO before I set 'im loose.

Answer 4

Yea, we never answer the door unless we recognize who it is. We save a lot of time that way. ;)

Answer 5

ya and ppl usually dont want anything to do with them anyway, so its almost a waist of time for them too. lol

Answer 6

Well,why are you opening up the door to them? I don't.

Answer 7

I'm sorry if that's always happening to you but I haven't seen one since I was like 8.

Answer 8

everyone hates it, especially when the girl scouts come...

they never brought me my cookies. LOL.

Answer 9

It's funny when people come to my house doing that. I hold my dog and let her squirm so much that the person backs away because of my little seven pound cockapoo (they don't know she is only excited about new people though, haha). One of my friends makes it a habit to answer the door in his boxers to scare people away. Seems to work for him.  

Answer 10

I have a "no solicitors" sign on our door AND a 100 lb. rottweiler that gets "excited" when the front door rings.. She scares most people away.  So, I don't need to answer the door when they see her HUGE head peer out the window!  

Answer 11

I feel bad saying no thanks hah

Answer 12

yes! and i hate at the mall when people come up to you and ask to sample loation!

Answer 13

I like it. My boring little hermetic life actually muses when they show up. Just Kidding.

You know you can just put a No Solicitors sign on your door if you want.

Answer 14

yes!  and the religious people trying to convert me.  out of principle, I don't do business with either

Answer 15

im sorry but the way i feel is  this person is trying to earn a honest living  it is rare in america these days for someone to walk all day  in the hot sun for money to feed there familys  most people wouldnt. i understand that its a hassle to get off your couch to say your not interested   but to put them down is   well  wrong

Answer 16

YES! Let me tell you a story. This was like 3 weeks ago. My great aunt came to visit and she is from france. She doesn't speak much english so their is a language barrier between us. Well someone came by trying to sell stuff and my great aunt was like "alex answer the door" and i say  "no don't answer it they are trying to sell stuff" and she didn't understand me and said "is it your friend or your brother's friend" and i said "no" and it was pointless and useless trying to talk to her so i go answer it and this girl about my age (19) says are your parents home and i say no they are not you can talk to me im probably older than you! and so she gives her speech on how there was a robbery the other day and that they( i don't know who cops maybe?) called in the ADT security company or whatever to come by and offer their protection. well i asked where the robbery was and she pointed over there to the corner which could mean any where and  i proceeded to ask what happen. She said apparently someone broke in a house and tried to steal a big screen tv. i said wow thats pretty crazy being that big screen tv must way a TON! and then she said they were trying to take it out of the window and I was thinking wow these must be the stupidest criminals or this sales woman sucks. I started giggling and she then said the tv was a flat screen tv. they couldnt get it out so they broke it up and left. when this sales lady came to the door she looked at me as if i had knocked on her door and i was like yes can i help you, i shouldn't be the first one talking you should be. YES AND I DO HIDE WHEN THEY COME KNOCKING! ESPECIALLY CHURCH PEOPLE! I HATE IT!

Answer 17

Yeah sometimes it's annoying >.<

Answer 18

put yourself in their shoes; i think its harder to show up than to say not now

Answer 19

Well i guess some people gotta do it.

Praise God you are not in that predictament

Answer 20

yea especailly girl scouts. its hard to tell a little girl no. also the cookies taste to d**n good. usually i just act like im not home if i see them coming

Answer 21

No, actually. I'm a very lonely person, and I like all the company I can get. I spend most of my time browsing around the Internet, joining what communities I can, to make up for my lack of a social life. Sometimes I wonder if it's my personality, my looks, or my past that gets in the way, but I just can't make that connection with people.

I don't get many visitors, but the door-to-door sellers are my savior. You might say, they're the brief but vital light in my dark and gloomy existence. Some of them even know me by name now. Even my mother couldn't say she knew me by name - good ol' Mom, such a sweet person but a bit overboard on the meds, if you catch my drift.

Often I'll invite the door-to-door sellers in, and some of them even tell me their whole life stories. Often these people, looked at as scum of the Earth by society, are forced into the position they are in because of unavoidable circumstances. Every day they walk around, zombielike, promoting a product they neither support nor believe in, selling their soul and their time to companies just to get by. It's here we connect, the salesmen and I - rejected by the world, we have but each other.

So do a salesman a favor next time. Invite him in. Have tea with him. Unless he's a Jehovah's Witness, in which case, call the cops, or Jesus, whoever comes first.

Answer 22

It shouldn't be illegal but people should just say no right away if they're not interested and the companies should make sure they are nice people first before hiring them.  

Answer 23

i totally agree, there are annoying and they dont listen once i answered the door cuz i just woke up and the dude wouldnt take no for an answer i had to wait an hour for my mom to come home and he still didnt leave.  

Answer 24

I don't feel that they should be prevented from selling door to door, but it is annoying.  I'll take free stuff though.

Answer 25

...sorry about that. i didn't know, that when my foot connected with the flower pot, it would shatter.

haha, jk, but all joking aside, that is really rude. usually i tell them i'm not interested or i'm busy, and if they're persistent, either you get a Doberman or you tell them that you've got important business to tend to.

Answer 26

get a little sticker to put on your front door or window that says no loitering and they cant come up to your door

Answer 27

I got really upset about those investment reps from Edward Jones who ask you all about how you are investing your money and how much you have?  Then they make notes and keep phoning you to try to get you to let them lose your money for you.  If they were good at what they do, they could get enough people to come to them,  

Answer 28

Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are worse.  

Answer 29

YEAH! They're always at my door...that's why daddy bought us a gun. Now we just put a few bones on the driveway and they don't bother us no more.

Answer 30

Yeah i hate them so much. That's why i always get my shotgun and my German Shepherd barking ready to friggin' scare them away!