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Cold Callers.

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Getting rid of cold callers on the phone is no problem, just hang up but what do you do when the caller is on your doorstep?
They use every trick in the book, the latest by the RNID is to try to be as friendly as possible but in my experience the patter just doesn't work. I answered the knock to find a teenager asking me how I was and did I know anyone who is disabled, I was in my wheelchair at the time and she really didn't see the irony. I resent them forcing me to be rude by closing the door whilst they are mid sentence but what options do I have? They ignore signs saying 'No Cold Callers' and if I say nothing but point at the sign they carry on as though nothing is amiss.
So, how do you get rid of them?
 
I normally wait until they are finished with the patter and then say sorry I'm not interested and I have something on the cooker and I have to go and sort it out and I will try to look it up on the Internet but that is all I have to say and close the door and I don't bother with them anymore and that is it and that is the same for out on the streets as they are a pain as well trying to pull you over to get you to listen to them and I just walk past them to
 
I'm not as polite. I point to my notice stuck to the door & say can't you *#+•=*> read & shut the door on them
 
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I have a spy hole which helps. On the occasions I answer the door, I say no thank you and close the door.
Only had trouble with two people, one was a unenclosed man around 30 selling from a holdall. Said no thank you, he got nasty and said that I Don, t know what he was selling and that other people on my road had bought loads from him and I just closed the door. The second was a lady selling yellow daffodils for a well known cancer charity, said no thank you, to which she replied, may God strike you down with cancer and not survive.
 
I give to the Sallyarmy if they come to the house

I usually say to others no thanks if they persist I tell them to eff off and shut the door

One auld gypsy witch called years ago selling 'lucky heather' I said no thanks I got some in my garden

She turned real nasty cursing me several times and I really lost it and told her to eff off several times and cursed her that she stick her heathers up her jit
 
Charming; I don't think the charity would be particularly happy to hear that this was one of their collectors was behaving.

I was at a meeting at the local Citizens' Advice Bureau a while back, and we got onto the subject of people selling stuff door-to-door. Their estimate (gained from information supplied by the local Trading Standards office) was that something like 90% of such canvassers are staking out likely-looking properties for them and their mates to return to, later, to rob.

There's a guy who knocks on our door every twelve months or so, selling stuff out of a back pack. I've never found out what he's selling because I've never let him get that far, but he always claims to be about to join the army, and to be trying to raise money to settle his affairs before starting his training. The army must be very patient (or very keen to have him) because they've been waiting for him to report for duty for about 5 years, now
 
Thanks folks, you have made a good day even better!
 
I let hubby answer the door. I fall for any story so hubby goes and tells them politely to take a hike.

His favourite one is to the religious groups as he has a satan/goat symbol on the door because of his affinity to heavy metal music. They must think he needs converting
 
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