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Do you know how to keep solicitors from coming by? I have had it!! We have a "NO SOLICITING" sign in the frong of our subdivision, but apparently it is being ignored. This is the third time in three days that people have come by. Maybe I will get a small sticky sign and put it by my doorbell. Because of Prince's CT, I have to keep him calm, and when the doorbell rings he goes into attack mode. He's now wheezing...again!!!!!!!:mad::mad: What is with these people? If I wanted what you are soliciting, I would come to you! |
May you could turn off your door bell or post a sign saying "Beware of attack dog" If they do come by say "Could you wait a minute?" Then close the door almost all the way and just "forget" to come back. Once, when I was little....8 or 9. I was selling Girl Scout Cookies with my friend. I came up to this door and it had a sign that said "We shoot every third Solicitor" I remember thinking "Are we solicitors?" We ended up leaving and going to the next house. When we were walking back by, the owner of the house was outside. He said "Oh, Do you have Girl Scout Cookies?" I said "yes" He asked why we didn't come to their house. We told him because of his sign.....:D |
Or, you can do like my husband does . . .when he sees them start to walk up the driveway he pulls open the door and tells them to turn back around and that he isn't interested in anything they have to say . . .then slams the door. :p |
Edit to sign to say...No solicitors. THIS MEANS YOU. |
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even that doesn't work at my office:( I will see people read the sign then get this look on their face like oh they can't possibly mean me and walk in anyway/ |
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Actually if the sign doesn't work...simply disable the door bell. |
At least it wasn't someone trying to sell you his poetry he wrote while he was in prison for 30 years. |
Yeah that happened at my condos too. Unless they have a guard shack and an actual person people will do as they please. Trick or Treaters too... it usually starts before I get home from work and I can't even drive down the main road in my condo to get to MY HOME because tons of people who do not live there take their kids there and park up and down the road or even right in my own NUMBERED spot! Aaaahhh thank god for tenants, I am out of there! :) |
I have a sign on my subdivision and on my door, they always say, "We're not trying to sell you anything." I say, "You're trying to solicit my time," of course Joey's barking up a storm, and I think they are being deceitful, and I tell them that. |
It's not so much "selling" as it is soliciting...you know, trying to tell you that something they do or somewhere they go is better. |
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Put up a sign that says PLEASE do not disturb. I'm a night worker and am sleeping. It works!! |
I think we'll try the No Soliciting sign near our doorbell. I'm afraid if I put up a do not disturb sigh, I might miss deliveries from UPS or FedEx. Apparently these people (solictors) travel in groups. One of my neighbors spoke with two of them and said she hates it but doesn't want to be rude. If rudeness would stop them, I'll be rude! |
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Make a recording of a vicious dog barking or maybe a blood curdling scream right after having a chainsaw start up. |
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They tend to do their "home visits" during the week. |
We pretty much stopped the solicitors when DH put up a stop sign and no tresspass sign at our driveway entrance. We live at the end of a dead end street and you would not believe how many people would use our front yard as a turnaround or pull up to our barn (big metal bldg.) thinking it was a business! We used to get jerks who actually cut donuts in our yard!l know the sign looks like we are mean hermits, but sprinkler heads and sod gets expensive (lol).:rolleyes: |
I believe that if there is a sign, they can be reported to the police. Your community organization should be notified. |
The best way we got rid of solicitor (we don't has them anywhere near as much anymore now we live in the country) was to invite them in and ramble incessantly about useless things. 'I so glad someone to talk to..My boyfriend dump me...My eyelash won't stop falling out..My pet rock died...' Watching mum go was corker! |
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I would never brave enough to do it but mum very funny! |
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Doing something strange usually works for me. We have had less come to our door since I have answered the door with rat on my shoulder and another time dressed as a pirate. :D The pirate costume was an accident because at the time I worked at a school and had dressed like that for the kids that day and had yet to change. The look on their faces is great! :p When I was little my dad would tell everyone of them he just got laid off to get them to leave. |
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