Door to door salesmen: your experiences

[Zahri]

So... today i had a weird experience.

Here i am at home, readin some Case Closed, when i hear a loud knock. My parents are in the kitchen for some reason or other, so i go to answer it. Black salesman in a white suit hands me a bottle of green all purpose detergent, a pamphlet, and tells me to watch.

It's worth mentioning that i noticed he looked alot like some guy i saw as i was walking home from school, same mannerisms, same clothes, everything. I mention that i saw him, he says "oh no, that wasn't me. You sayin all black people look alike?"

So i stand there with an "okay... wtf?" expression.

He takes his own bottle, and starts spraying the rims of my moms Honda Eclipse. Gunk comes off, meh, don't really care, but that whole time he's talking non-stop. During a break in his speech, i ask "okay... how much is it" at which point my dad from the kitchen sees the guy and tells me to say we don't want any.

Well i like to be polite, so i keep listening and du du du things keep going. I ask him how much this stuff it, he responds with. "I didn't mention any price" "So what, it's free?" "Nope."

At this point, my mom walks out and starts talking to me while watching the dude. We're still not interested, so he sprays the windows and shows that there's no streaks left. Still not interested.

Forgot to mention that he said he went from selling dope to selling soap.

He goes off to scrub our lawn chair soon after. We're still not interested. He goes off trying to talk to my mom (who only speaks Spanish) and mentions the price over and over, Treinta-five! Treinta-five!

So yeah, he then asks me who the truck belongs to (my dads truck) And i honestly admit that it's his, and mention that he already motioned that he's not interested in whatever it is he's selling. He goes off with something about adoption papers, my dad ditching him at the beach? and some other stuff i have no idea about. He storms off swearing and the whatnot, and i'm just here with a WTF expression on my face.

Yeah, still a bit freaked out by the experience.

Anyone else here have some odd experiences with door to door salesmen?

Side Note: The stuff looked like it worked o.o But yeah, $35 dollars for 8 ounces of soap is a bit extreme. <.<

 

[AkJay]

Once, a Jehovah's witness came to my door. I told them I was an atheist, and began speaking in french. It was a good day.

 

[RanD00M]

This guy came once and sold us a painting.He was nice.

And it was a beautiful painting to boot.

 

[Omikron009]

No. I simply won't answer the door if they come. I actually have auto-turrets and attack dogs for jehova's witnesses.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

mormons come by everyone in awhile

 

[Simalacrum]

Yeah, we get sales people occasionally...

One of these days I'm just gona say "yeah, this is illegal by the way. I'm reaching for the phone now..."

 

[Zahri]

Once, a Jehovah's witness came to my door. I told them I was an atheist, and began speaking in french. It was a good day.

I had this happen to me, but i actually listen >.>

Have i been branded? Should i be afraid? D=

 

[One Seven One]

i've never had a salesman but i have had two old ladys come by once who gave me a pamphlet for there church.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Once, a Jehovah's witness came to my door. I told them I was an atheist, and began speaking in french. It was a good day.

That's a win for you sir.

I don't have door to door salesmen very often. Usually it's just the red cross or, at halloween, some trick or treaters. There was one time where some people came and gave me a bracelet and a stuffed penguin and started talking to me about penguins. All I remember is someone saying "save the penguins or the nazis win". It was an odd day.

 

[captainkrunch]

only thing ive ever had was stupid kids fundraising nothing out of the ordinary

 

[Coltelement]

Usually when people come knocking on my door, I like to answer in a British accent, demanding to know if they're the pirates I've been warned about... it's pretty fun.

 

[Idlemessiah]

I had Jehovas witnesses a few weeks back. Its funny cause me and 3 of the people I live with study archaeology and thus human evolution, so we had a half hour debate on evolution, natural selection and picked a few holes in the bible too.

 

[GreyWolf257]

This guy came up to my front door one time and all he asked me was "Do you want to buy something?" He didn't even tell me what he was selling, and he looked pretty damn shady, so I told him I would be right back and closed the door. I got a gun and put it in my waistband. I went back and had to ask him about six times what he was selling. He finally told me he was selling DVDs (after he went off on about a thousand different subjects) and they all looked like one of those cheap ones you can buy from Lima. I told him I wasn't interested, shut the door, locked it, and sat on my couch with the gun on the table. When my dad came home, he asked me why I had the gun. I told him, and all he could say was "There are extra bullets in my closet."

 

[Nepeccel]

I used to work as a door to door salesman for a company getting people to switch their phone and broadband to a worse deal, but I did not realise they were duping people until I quit after 3 days. It was the worst job I had ever done, and I only did it for the prospect of being trained up to manager status and 150k salery. What they didn't tell me, however, was that when I hit manager status I had to compete with the people who had trained me, because I was then self-employed!

It was rather disheartening to see people's faces as me and some other bloke knocked on their door. The best reaction to us was "what the hell do you want?", that pretty much sealed the deal for me quitting! I don't blame them though, I hate door to door salesmen!

 

[Zahri]

I used to work as a door to door salesman for a company getting people to switch their phone and broadband to a worse deal, but I did not realise they were duping people until I quit after 3 days. It was the worst job I had ever done, and I only did it for the prospect of being trained up to manager status and 150k salery. What they didn't tell me, however, was that when I hit manager status I had to compete with the people who had trained me, because I was then self-employed!

It was rather disheartening to see people's faces as me and some other bloke knocked on their door. The best reaction to us was "what the hell do you want?", that pretty much sealed the deal for me quitting! I don't blame them though, I hate door to door salesmen!

Sorry to hear that =(

My guy actually reminds me of the nerd from the white and nerdy music video, appearance wise o.o i'm scared nao.

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

I had Jehovas witnesses a few weeks back. Its funny cause me and 3 of the people I live with study archaeology and thus human evolution, so we had a half hour debate on evolution, natural selection and picked a few holes in the bible too.

Ooh, Jehova's witnesses are fun. My dad is an engineer and he invited some into his house once. He asked them about their religion and then they got to the part about limited room in heaven and a revival on a new earth after the apocalypse. This is where it gets fun.

My dad was excited about the number 144,000 (which they believe is the max # of people in heaven) because it's "more than enough to establish a genetically diverse population on a newly colonized planet". Better still was the revival part, I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of there being clues in the bible for astronomical coordinates to tell where this new earth was. He grilled them a bit on how their religious leaders were doing on designing and building a spaceship to "fulfill god's plan to send man into deep space". He kept on spouting technical details and asking them questions about interstellar travel and finally told them to "stay put" so he could "get out the blueprints and explain the theories properly". By the time he came back from the basement, they were gone.