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My neighborhood has recently been plagued by salesmen.
Be ready for them when they come, they can be very persuasive and sometimes fairly aggressive. They do this all day every day so they know all the tricks to convince you.
Don’t even let them get started. I tell everyone who comes to my house peddling something that I don’t care who they are or what they’re selling I will never buy it. If they want to leave me an information sheet, fine, but in the meantime I have other stuff to do.
Then I walk away.
It really annoys me to then see these same people at the houses of elderly neighbors.
Judging by what my unfortunate neighbors have told me, their products are ridiculously overpriced and of low quality. Whether true or not, don’t encourage them. Just say No!
This is all IMHO of course. Just be prepared.
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HPP but they’re going door to door everywhere, eventually.
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Any more details? Are they in uniforms? Do vehicles have business logos? Type of products being sold? What is your definition of “fairly aggressive”? Mainland company or local?
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They better not come to my door. It’s 70 feet past the property line and a closed gate.
Anybody stupid enough to pass the gate and multiple signage stating Keep Out, is immediately chased away by me or the dogs or both.
The days of the friendly neighborhood Avon Lady or Fuller Brush Man are gone along with Beaver Cleaver.
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It doesn’t matter where they are from, what they selling or what they are wearing. Often times they refuse to leave without making a sale.
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Surprised to hear this happening. In most of America door-to-door salesman is largely a thing of the distant past. The most recent thing I recall on Oahu is Jehovah's Witnesses putting literature on doorsteps. They were prominent in the 1990s.
Does not a no trespassing sign on the driveway deter? If you do not have one, anyone can arguably walk down your driveway to your front door. If they do not get a response, they can wander around the outside of your house a bit, peering into windows or maybe around the house side, looking for the occupant.
If you have a no trespassing sign, you can get fairly heated (possibly quite heated if you wish) the second they start down your driveway, IMO.
If more people said something like: Hey, you don't get to walk on to people's property without being invited, this practice might abate. It is unfortunate to be unfriendly to other people in this way, but these salesmen often case for burglaries.
(An old custom from the distant past is that if you approach a person's camp or rural house you yell from a distance "Hello the house" and wait for a response. And if you do not get one, you should not proceed.)
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Hey, you don't get to walk on to people's property without being invited
Maybe the County can pass a rule or regulation.
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I thought I was the only one to hail a camp or home from a distance!
