WTH is wrong with people
The only time I prefer NOT to do business face to face is with door to door salespeople. I am amazed at people who really think they are going to sell me something after they have rudely ignored my No Soliciting sign.
Quote from: twiliter on February 06, 2019, 03:50:20 PMThe only time I prefer NOT to do business face to face is with door to door salespeople. I am amazed at people who really think they are going to sell me something after they have rudely ignored my No Soliciting sign. Do they ignore the 'hungry rabid and angry dog' sign also? Can you share videos of the results of their lack of reading comprehension?
100lbs may not be enough....I have a 70lb one and a 140lb one and that seems to do the trick quite effectively!I have been known to answer the doors, dogs barking and struggling at the door to see who it is and tell the solicitor that unless they are giving free (uhh... let's just say "candy" since this is a family friendly forum) then whatever they have is not worth the trouble and noise they have already caused.But then I have also been known to answer telemarketer calls with loud adult matter playing in the background. If they ask "can we speak to __?" I will often tell them to hold and put the phone down on the speaker and leave it there.I feel okay doing these kinds of things, as I am just paying it forward from the good old days when I did those types of jobs and people did that kind of thing to me. Def
USD$600 offer for a lot of items listed at a total price of USD$1600? Even I wouldn't ask that..... USD$1000 maybe.....
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on February 06, 2019, 04:25:36 PM100lbs may not be enough....I have a 70lb one and a 140lb one and that seems to do the trick quite effectively!I have been known to answer the doors, dogs barking and struggling at the door to see who it is and tell the solicitor that unless they are giving free (uhh... let's just say "candy" since this is a family friendly forum) then whatever they have is not worth the trouble and noise they have already caused.But then I have also been known to answer telemarketer calls with loud adult matter playing in the background. If they ask "can we speak to __?" I will often tell them to hold and put the phone down on the speaker and leave it there.I feel okay doing these kinds of things, as I am just paying it forward from the good old days when I did those types of jobs and people did that kind of thing to me. DefI don't like the whole telemarketing strategy. I'm a quiet person and I don't like being interrupted unsolicited. I get that the person on the end of the phone is just doing a job, but it's an intrusive practice.Often with telemarketers, I'll make a game of trying to keep them on the phone as long as possible and waste their time. I figure if I can make them as inefficient as possible, the return on the practice will be less appealing. Recently, they seem to have become smarter about this and are quicker to sniff out my BS and hang up on me.
Quote from: Nix on February 06, 2019, 04:45:47 PMQuote from: Grant Lamontagne on February 06, 2019, 04:25:36 PM100lbs may not be enough....I have a 70lb one and a 140lb one and that seems to do the trick quite effectively!I have been known to answer the doors, dogs barking and struggling at the door to see who it is and tell the solicitor that unless they are giving free (uhh... let's just say "candy" since this is a family friendly forum) then whatever they have is not worth the trouble and noise they have already caused.But then I have also been known to answer telemarketer calls with loud adult matter playing in the background. If they ask "can we speak to __?" I will often tell them to hold and put the phone down on the speaker and leave it there.I feel okay doing these kinds of things, as I am just paying it forward from the good old days when I did those types of jobs and people did that kind of thing to me. DefI don't like the whole telemarketing strategy. I'm a quiet person and I don't like being interrupted unsolicited. I get that the person on the end of the phone is just doing a job, but it's an intrusive practice.Often with telemarketers, I'll make a game of trying to keep them on the phone as long as possible and waste their time. I figure if I can make them as inefficient as possible, the return on the practice will be less appealing. Recently, they seem to have become smarter about this and are quicker to sniff out my BS and hang up on me. We have a simple but effective solution to unwanted telephone calls: We leave all calls to our answering machine, most telemarketers hang up as soon as they hear our std msg. We do have to tell our friends that they need to start speaking after the msg and if we are home we will (usually) pick up. I realise that this method isn't practical if you use your phone for business, but it suits us.
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on February 06, 2019, 04:25:36 PM100lbs may not be enough....I have a 70lb one and a 140lb one and that seems to do the trick quite effectively!I have been known to answer the doors, dogs barking and struggling at the door to see who it is and tell the solicitor that unless they are giving free (uhh... let's just say "candy" since this is a family friendly forum) then whatever they have is not worth the trouble and noise they have already caused.But then I have also been known to answer telemarketer calls with loud adult matter playing in the background. If they ask "can we speak to __?" I will often tell them to hold and put the phone down on the speaker and leave it there.I feel okay doing these kinds of things, as I am just paying it forward from the good old days when I did those types of jobs and people did that kind of thing to me. DefI don't like the whole telemarketing strategy. I'm a quiet person and I don't like being interrupted unsolicited. I get that the person on the end of the phone is just doing a job, but it's an intrusive practice.Often with telemarketers, I'll make a game of trying to keep them on the phone as long as possible and waste their time. I figure if I can make them as inefficient as possible, the return on the practice will be less appealing. Recently, they seem to have become smarter about this and are quicker to sniff out my BS and hang up on me. I had one of those calls the other day where the caller wanted to 'help' me with my credit card debts, since I had been 'identified' as being eligible for their advantageous program. So I asked which credit card he was calling about. "Which credit cards do you have." "No, I want to know which of my cards qualifies for the program?" "Visa, MasterCard, all of them..." "Oh, nice. So which of my cards are you calling about?""What credit cards do you have?""Ah, see, you called me about my credit card. So I want to know which one you are calling about."Raising his voice a bit: "You have to tell me which credit cards you have.""Oh, I see. But I want to know which one you are calling about."A bit louder, now: "YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION FIRST.""I don't understand, I thought you said I qualified for this program. So can you tell me which card I have that qualifies?""NO, I DON'T KNOW THAT. YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION FIRST.""I"m not comfortable giving that information out over the phone. You should know this already...."* click *Guess I have to up my game......
You people are much nicer than I am. I pickup and as soon as they start speaking I yell loudly into the phone telling them to go perform an adult act on themselves & hangup.
Mmmmm.... donutcall.gov list....
Quote from: Butch on February 06, 2019, 05:24:10 PMYou people are much nicer than I am. I pickup and as soon as they start speaking I yell loudly into the phone telling them to go perform an adult act on themselves & hangup. Same here and Proudly too!On the original topic though it seems to me that if advertised with a Make Offer line of some kind then no right to get upset by any offer that you may get?If not and the ad doesn't mention offers,same thing to me exactly.If the ad says no offers then I am no interested anyway!But no one can read your mind or be expected to regardless of which side of this you are on?