NO SOLICITING
Today, a Direct TV employee came to my house and ignored the sign. I then pointed it out rather Vanna White style, and he still was reluctant to leave.
The almost daily influx of junk mail from that company is fairly thorough in letting me know all about their services and specials, and I am fully capable of internet research when I actually WANT a product.
If I were keen on being harassed at home with visits and imaginatively timed phone calls, I'd get myself a stalker.
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When I was *briefly* selling newspaper subscriptions, they told me to ignore "no soliciting" signs because this wasn't the same thing. After one or two such people explained to me that it was, I started skipping those houses. Eventually I learned almost NOBODY liked sales persons coming to their doors and quit that job.
What I really wanted to say was, it's not as easy to get a stalker as some people make it out to be.
Yes, and the tactics used in door-to-door sales are appalling! Even selling temple prints in a very LDS neighborhood without any underhanded tactics (something I did as a child with my brother's girlfriend) was seen as harassment and got no takers. Only people who knew her bought any. My only positive door-to-door experience was putting pizza coupons on doors near college campuses for a mere pittance but, at least, usually happy faces. All of the stairs of Wyview apartments, though--one flight per two doors--did give me some pretty strong legs from it all.
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