I NEED lines or techniques to get rid of those unwanted solicitors either door to door or on the phone.?

Question

Recently we have had a rash of solicitors come through our neighborhood. How can I get rid of them? If I put a hateful sign up on the door do they have to leave me alone? Give me some fresh ideas LOL!

Answer 1

Well, if you'd like to have a little fun with it...

On the phone: use a thick accent, and change into a different accent at different junctures in the conversation (go from Irish, to Jamaican, to Southern drawl); another alternative is to mumble gibberish in another "language"

At your door: stare at them and don't respond; appear catatonic, with no emotional expression whatsoever; then suddenly burst out in uncontrollable laughter for 2 seconds; become catatonic again

Answer 2

Well, We had people coming to the door almost every other day, mostly for religious things, and although this is slightly mean, my brother put a sign up that said "We believe in evolution" ...it worked, and for the phone solicitors, just do the line from 'Seinfeld' Say you're busy and ask for their number so you can call then back, when they say no, just say 'What? you don't like people calling your place? NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL!!' LOL or just do the polite thing say No thank you, and either close the door or hang up the phone. Just don't look them in the eye, because then its too late.

Answer 3

Don't ask me why but when I read "If I just put a sign on the door..." I pictured a sign that said "I have 2 broken legs go away...thank you"

I used to have telemarketers call and there for a while ti was the same company 2 or 3 times a night, I would answer the phone and they would ask for me and I would say "hold on" sit the phone down and walk away for 15 or 20 minutes, come back and if they were still there, I would say "hang on, I am still looking for her" and put the phone back down and just leave it there until bed time. Ha ha...Mean I know, but when you have the same company calling 2 or 3 times a night, I was getting desperate...

Answer 4

My husband once asked a solicitor on the phone if he could have the solicitor's home phone number. The confused man asked why my husband would want his home phone number. My husband answered, "So that I can call you up and bother you at home like you are doing to me." The guy said he couldn't do that and hung up.
Maybe the same type of answer might work on the door to door solicitors. Tell them you don't have the time to speak to them right now, but if they would leave their home address you could come by and bother them, in their own home, at a time when they would rather be left alone.

Answer 5

I had a nice garden sign engraved for my front flower bed that says "Private Residence, NO Solicitation" and I haven't had 1 single person knock on my door since then. As far as the phone calls go, I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know unless they call my business phone, then if I'm not interested, I simply tell them that I don't need their services, but thank you and have a great day. Then I hang up the phone before they have a chance to reply.

Answer 6

For the phone calls go to the national do not call registry and sign up. Here is the website:

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx


For the door to door people you can always try a "no solicitors" sign.

Answer 7

If someone is at your door you don't know, you shouldn't be opening it anyway - just do not answer the door. If they see you or know you are inside, so what? You are not obligated to answer your door - or your phone.

Have you registered with the "do not call" registry? Don't answer your phone if you don't know who's calling. If the caller is a personal friend, they will leave a message.

No need to say, "no" or give any excuses - It's quite easy - you don't have to get rid of them - just don't even engage them at all!

Answer 8

I incredibly have a no soliciting sign and it does deter some, yet no longer all solicitors. those infamous for ignoring the indications incorporate pest administration, alarm, and photograph voltaic agencies alongside with Jehovah's Witnesses. regrettably I often do no longer understand who it incredibly is till ultimately i've got spoke back the door as i'm getting distinctive kit deliveries and am often awaiting UPS. I continuously decline their supply and attempt to no longer be impolite, yet while they have situation taking no for an answer I take their photograph and persist with up with an cyber web overview of their organisation or corporation and my adventure coping with them. as much as now I incredibly have won one apology from a organisation and a request to eliminate my overview.

Answer 9

Don't be awful to the actual workers. Sometimes people have to take a really terrible job so that they can feed their families. The economy sucks, and sometimes you just have to do whatever you can.

Tell the ones who call you that you want taken off of all their phone lists. They have to do it. Take the name of the company, if necessary, to ensure they don't call you again. I don't know how it works with the door to door people, but you can either not answer your door or you can tell them that you don't want any solicitors coming to your house. I don't know if the law requires them to not come again, like it does with the phone callers, but it could be worth a shot. And, again, be nice to the actual workers. It won't help any, except for giving you a nice karmic boost and making them feel a little less like crap.

By the way, slamming the phone in their ear or yelling obscenities or asking if you can call the worker back at their home won't do anything but make some poor minimum wage worker feel like sh!t. The companies' policies are always to call again and again unless you tell them to take you off their list.

Answer 10

Phone:
Tell them that you are a recruiter for the (Insert favorite military branch) and you will be willing to listen to what they have to say if they are willing to enlist.

Door:

Get a bunch of pamphlets from your local church. Draw a chalk outline of a body right outside of your door. Mix Karo syrup and red food dye, pour mixture about chest level of the outline. Spread pamphlets all over the "crime scene"

Or you can answer the door nude. The religious types hate that. But be carefull, UPS will sue (at least thats what Jeff foxworthy said on one of his albums)