Dooor-to-door sales

[jdgregory84]

I think a lot of them are just people that can't get normal jobs for various reasons. I'm polite and just tell them no thanks. I mean...they know where you live. Don't be a dick.

[Ruffdaddy]

People have to buy stuff in order for them to keep going. You'd think people wouldn't fall for the mystery shopper thing in their email or the Nigerian Prince but some people do. My pet peeve are the assholes who pull up and ask me if I want to buy some rock/asphalt for my driveway because they were redoing a road somewhere and had 'extra.'

God if there's one thing you've been right About it's this. And I'm one of the morons that has to spend money. I blame it on growing up dirt poor. Once I found out I made a good amount of money I pissed it away becoming poor again.

Basically...I need strength!

[JC316]

Dont have that problem where I live. I have a gate, a dog, and about a 200 foot walk from my gate to my door. I have had some locals come up to my car lot and try to sell me stuff though.

[A+]

Do religious folks come by yalls house trying to slang their religion? I can't be mean to those people so I always open the door and talk to them. Recently I've been having to hide from them because I'm the only guy on the block that answers the door so they know where to go when they want to talk. Sometimes I just say, I don't speak or read Spanish and they go away, when they're Spanish speakers of course.

[SS Junk]

i agree but do you think they actually make money? Who buys ANYTHING from these people?

The elderly are easy prey.

Do religious folks come by yalls house trying to slang their religion? I can't be mean to those people so I always open the door and talk to them. Recently I've been having to hide from them because I'm the only guy on the block that answers the door so they know where to go when they want to talk. Sometimes I just say, I don't speak or read Spanish and they go away, when they're Spanish speakers of course.

I've only had a mormon team come to my door and assure me I had not heard the good news. They were told to get off the property to which they complied in a hurried manner.

[Frank]

Had a strange truck pull up my driveway with a couple of dudes once with a big cooler in the back. I knew it was one of those meat scams. I have a long driveway so anyone who makes it to the house has some kind of intent and not just "lost". My office window overlooks the drive and I can hear anything come up the gravel. As soon as the guy steps out, I shout down, "can I help you?"
"Just wanted to let you know about the sale on meat we have."
"No thanks"
"Ok thanks" and drove off. Next sound would have been my shotgun racking. He never saw me to know where I really was from the way he was looking around.

I wouldn't mind having door-to-door salesmen if I could talk to them all from the front porch.

[stephen4785]

I did door to door sales for Grenn Mountain Electricity for 1 1/2 years when I lived in Houston. I was going to school and only needed to make 300/wk to get by. First week I made $400 and worked 3-4 days. Before the marketing company lost the contract I was a sales manager and made $600-1100/wk. When I was 20-21 that was a ton of money for me. Super easy money and it was an easy sell. You can actually make a decent living doing door-to-door sales. I wouldn't go back to it now though because living on commission with a family of 4 would suck.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I pulled my ccw on a meat sales guy who walked into my garage while I was working on the car one day. He scared the fuck out of me, but we don't have to worry about the meat guys knocking on the door anymore.

[Snatch Napkin]

I just answer the door naked. Bonus points for having a shiny hard on.

[Trip McNeely]

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh, SALESMAAAAAN!!!!!

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[tangstang]

I did door to door sales for Grenn Mountain Electricity for 1 1/2 years when I lived in Houston. I was going to school and only needed to make 300/wk to get by. First week I made $400 and worked 3-4 days. Before the marketing company lost the contract I was a sales manager and made $600-1100/wk. When I was 20-21 that was a ton of money for me. Super easy money and it was an easy sell. You can actually make a decent living doing door-to-door sales. I wouldn't go back to it now though because living on commission with a family of 4 would suck.

This right here. I always see people saying D2D would suck so bad and how can they make any money, etc.
I worked 3rd party for a company(not 20/20) selling Verizon Fios for quite a while, it had its ups and downs. When Verizon was being decent on credit checks and/or had good promos I could make some damn good money.

[A+]

See, when you sell something from a reputable well know company, that shit probably sells itself. But when you come up to my door, trying to sell some shit that some guy made in his garage for $50, fuck that broseph. I wish someone would come to my house slangin some fios, my internet sucks!

[Labora]

I had one of the meat guys harass me when I was moving into my house. Me and a friend are carrying a couch in and the douche is quizzing me on what sort of meat I've been cooking lately. He got lost after I told him I didn't even have a grill yet.

I just answer the door naked. Bonus points for having a shiny hard on.

I almost did that a few months ago when some religious people where knocking, thought better of it when I saw they had there kids with them.

[91lxhatch]

Some people just hang up a no solicitation sign.

[Mychael101]

That's how I find hail cars. Just takes a minute or two to find out if they are interested.