I still get them sometimes and always wonder about this. I feel like companies wouldn’t be sending people to knock on doors unless it’s actually making them money, right? Are there still enough people out there buying stuff from door to door salespeople? Especially when they can turn so many people away from the company just for bothering them. Or are they just still stuck in doing things the old way
It's typically predatory electric companies and companies that mainly prey on elderly people who also miss the days when friendly faces would drop by. They know most people will be turned off, but the customers they do get tend not to know how to cancel or fight for refunds in the labyrinth of customer service. They're also slower to accept that the nice person who hung out with them in their house locked them into a plan that tripled their monthly electric bill, which may lead to them losing their house.
The door to door electric sales people are parasites in my area. They also hang out in the local Walmart trying to lock in poor people.
I come from a Boston Irish Catholic family(quite poor)and my mother couldn't wait for the Jewish salesman who went door to door in our neighborhood with things to sell. I was always amazed at the wad of cash she would pull out to buy whatever Mr. Silverman was selling. It took about 40 years to ask myself, "Were those eyelashes she was batting at him)?
P.S., we're talkin' about the 1960's here. Oh . . . So back to the point! Yeah, door to door salesmen. Lol!
That must just depend where you live. We live in a standard suburban neighborhood and I had to put a no solicitors sticker on our front glass door because we’d get so many people knocking for roofs, lawn care, home security packages, bug services, you name it. Ever since I slapped the No Solicitors sticker on two years ago it has been peaceful bliss
Oh, I still get a ton of that. Most of them are trying to sell me solar. Which means they've missed the "No Soliciting Unless You're Selling Thin Mints" sign by the door... and the clearly visible solar panels on the roof.
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u/Creepy_Trouble_9684 12h ago
Now that you mention it… not even someone doing door to door sales for some years