I'm not sure if anyone's noticed this as well, but lately I've seen a lot more 'door to door' type salesman poking my human click button and trying to sell me their products. When I say "No not interested" there's not even a "thankyou for your time" or anything.. just a disconnect. If I was being rude to them (as I'm sure they get people doing all the time) I could understand it.

You know, if these people that poke my button, fill out my contact form, and junkmail my inboxes weren't so interested in a sale, but actually impressed me that they were trying to run a legitimate business and were interested in the people they are talking too, they *might* just get a sale out of me one day....

... probably not though.:D

Greg Moore

Funny, I haven't had a door-to-door salesman in my neighbourhood for goodness knows how long (many, many years? :)).. Apart from the occasional charity and kids asking for chocolates sponsorship for their trips... Which I'm quite happy to support.




<now that I've said that I've probably jinxed myself :D>

hehe,

there's the irony of it. I haven't had a real life door to door guy myself in years (beyond those guys selling my soul back to me :rolleyes: for the price of a magazine and an irritating conversation).

I always give those kids money for their chocolate bars though... I remember having to do that, and any kid that's willing to walk up to me and sell me anything deserves the money (Anyone who's seen my picture will understand I'm not considered very approachable by most kids :D )

I think the black t-shirt with the words "Strangers have the best Candy" written in blood red on the front is a little unsettling to your average 14 year old...

Greg Moore

oh! So you were that ugly guy who.........
:stickout

lol, im interested in knowing... what are they trying to sell ya?

i had a door-to-door salesman couple months ago... thought it was a new neighborhood guy trying to get to know the neighborhood... but finally, he pulled out from behind a signup sheet... selling magazines! lol, i told him no and also showed him a stack of magazines (about 4 feet high) right next to the door! :)

If the girlscouts can survive the beartraps, the piranha pit, and my bladder sensative puppy, they get to sell me the cookies... otherwise they get no money! I've had a few dtd salespeople come by lately. One which cleaned half the light on the porch then took off when he got a page, a couple of high schoolers from my old high school's rival school (so of course I had to donate so they had money to crush those morons that couldn't teach a ball to drop off a cliff), some guy apparently opening a gallery and selling his paintings off cheap (said he got the supplies from europe and they were expensive... as if that should matter to anyone, as long as it looks perty), and then one of those little jog-a-thon kids that dared to distrub me during an exquisite meal of pizza and coke (I payed him even though he'd end up running 3 laps then scarf down 20 popsicles). There's just too much to go door to door for.

Girlscouts should sell their cookies online, all year long. Then they could pull one of those things that the mary-kate (or kae or whatever that make-up company is) does and just give a subpage to each girlscout. They could rake in the cash!

Oh, just remembered another one. Some carpet cleaning place that would clean the entire carpeted areas in the house for free the first time (carpet cocaine!). We refused though I regret it now after the puppy's given the carpet a new lovely aroma everytime it gets hot... Anyone know of a really good handheld 'piddle' cleaner-upper?

In our neighborhood, the Girl Scouts don't even go door-to-door anymore--you have to go to them (in front of the local supermarket)! Who can blame them, in this day and age.

That's okay, I do anyway. I can't live without a couple of boxes of those mint thins once a year.

Originally posted by akashik
there's the irony of it. I haven't had a real life door to door guy myself in years (beyond those guys selling my soul back to me :rolleyes: for the price of a magazine and an irritating conversation).
Greg Moore

yup, ive had a couple of those, the long bearded gits (obviously not insulting "everyone" with long beards) , I really do feel sorry for the sad bots (couldnt really think of another equally demeaning term) that drone on about how doomed I am unless I listen to 2 hours of their drivel then buy their encyclopedia they have for sale.

I was listening to some talk show on the radio last night and a guy phoned in and said that if you dont believe in their god and dont do exactly what they say you will burn in hell - what a massive load of S-H-E-I-T-E (i guess all of legal age can decipher that :) )

religion is probably the biggest pile of crap ive ever had the pleasure to stamp on and kick crap out of, its utterly pointless, IMHO

Regards

Me :D

haha. The door to door religious people are some of the worst. About 5 months ago the last one came to our door giving me pamphlets, then he wanted to touch my heart to open a pathway for jesus. I was like "uh uh... don't think so." He was a bit offended about that and the fact that my puppy was barking at him so much I couldn't hear a word he was saying (thank god for that). I want to know what would happen if all those groups decided to go door to dooring on the same day. >:)

MAN!
My sister sell's those cookies! Hehe, might just steal the box!
(MINT ONES RULE!)

Fav girlscout cookies: the caramel/coconut ones... ::drools:: Mystic Mint cookies are just as good as those mint girlscout cookies... and you can buy them year-round. :)

We used to get the people that put the bibles in hotel rooms standing in front of our school buses (back in the day!!) and force us to take "mini bibles"

Also this guy @ my school gave me a christian book called Pure Love, you can decipher that :D

BTW, don't you think ppl that cared would bring their own bible and not use on in a hotel!! Think of the trees!!!!!!!

Originally posted by JustinK
Fav girlscout cookies: the caramel/coconut ones... ::drools::

Yesssssssss, mmmmmmmm. come to think about it, we haven't seen a girlscout around here in quite some time. TOO LONG!!!

I vote for the Caramel Delite's too. They are my favorite

March is when they appear. i don't know any parents of girl scouts, so I don't get the order form at work-the usual tradition, but they sell them in the T station. Nothing nicer than getting off the train after a long day and hearing 'Girl Scout Cookies!'. Woo hoo!

I do wish they'd get with the program and have a central girlscoutcookies.org web site that would direct you to the site of the local councils/troops so you could place your orders year-round and have them shipped from a central location, giving the credit for the fundraising to the local kids.

One of these days, they'll realize that a) girl scouts don't sell the cookies-their parents do, and b) selling them for a brief time per year isn't enough. They are best when fresh.