Door to door sales

Oreo I was kidding. 🙄

Just had a very persistent cold caller just now despite notice on door and on street name that such are not welcome. Pleased that my DD and very barky dog were both in evidence.

We get all sorts calling so I keep the chain on the door when opening it.Ex offenders selling tea towels and dusters at exorbitant prices, Jehovahs Witnesses, window cleaners trying their luck, travellers wanting to resurface our path, Amazon drivers wanting me to take in parcels for people I don’t even know, mobile fish vans asking if I want a regular order with them and local kids wanting to wash DP’s van ( for money of course😄).

I once had difficulty getting rid of a gypsy woman selling clothes pegs, she had a little girl aged about 3 with her, and she plonked her on the doorstep so I couldn`t close the door. It was ages before she decided to leave.

Grandmabatty

keepingquiet ooh, I think you've cursed yourself!

Oh yeah😁 they’ll all be round now.

keepingquiet ooh, I think you've cursed yourself!

I've been in this house six years and more and never had a cold caller!

We don't often answer iur front door - all family and friends come to the back door - but on the odd occasion when we get collared by someone promoting or selling something, I tell them we rent the house (we don't) or that we've got a CCJ (another lie)

Iam64

If I answer I put my hand out palm facing the caller. I say thank you nothing personal I never buy at the door
Door is closed and locked

Exactly what I do. I try to always do it with a smile and ignore anything that is said as I close the door.

I Wouldn't open the door.
It's safer not to.

Georgesgran we don't seem to get ex offenders where I am. When I was a child, it was gypsies selling clothes pegs who would call.

I do have a sign up which is blithely ignored! Normally, at this time of year, it's is garden services who come a-knocking. FGT I had two charming ladies from Jehovah's Witnesses last week who did try their luck. I was polite - always polite -but firm

Haven’t had any here for a long while - mostly gardening services, which I can easily refuse.
It’s the ex-offenders selling dusters/mops/sponges that used to be more difficult to get rid of - especially as those are scams.

If I answer I put my hand out palm facing the caller. I say thank you nothing personal I never buy at the door
Door is closed and locked

The joys of living in an apartment two floors up accessible only be intercom for us Grandmabatty so no, never. No trick or treaters, no Jehovah witnesses, no carol singers or pizza delivery leaflets!

Your encounters would unsettle me. I remember my mum never opened her front door (after peeping through the spy hole in it) unless she recognised the caller. As she used to say “I didn’t ask them to call’.

We never get these. Put signs out that knocking is forbidden at this establishment. It works. Your friends will know that they can, of course!