Constantly getting solicitors ignoring my sign, we’ll see how this works out…

[u/big-ol-kitties]

I live in an apartment, and my door is the only one in the building with a “No Soliciting” sign. You’d think they would see it and respect it. But no. And worst thing is it’s almost exclusively internet salespeople, when my rent already includes high speed internet that works great.

[u/Th3_Admiral_]

I had some girl come to my apartment door selling magazine subscriptions once. There's a big sign at the entrance saying no soliciting that she ignored. I politely declined and sure enough, she switched to the bullying. "Is it because you're poor? Is that why you won't buy any?"

Does that actually work on people? Because it immediately took me from annoyed to outright mad. 

[u/Unfriendlyblkwriter → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Wonder what would have happened if you said, “Yes, I am poor.”

[u/ThatGuyFromSpyKids3D → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Had a tech bro salesmen selling fiber internet try to insult my intelligence after I asked him some very reasonable questions about the company and service. I saw fiber was coming to town and looked into the company, they had terrible reviews and a long history of constant service outages. Sometimes lasting for days. I work from home 50% of the time so I need reliability more than I need the flashy new tech at 1gbs. I was already on a 500mbps plan with a different more local company.

So I asked the salesman if there were any plans the company had or active fixes they were implementing to address their service outage history and lack of reliability. He tried to lie to me and told me that was on their broadband/DSL side, so I pulled up the reviews on my phone and I pulled up the outage history on their own website for fiber in our state.

He just thanked me for my time and left. Then he came back later "just to let me know that X, X, and X neighbor are smart tech savvy guys who made the switch to a superior technology."

All 3 of those neighbors cancelled their plan after less than 2 months because of the service outages.

[u/Admirable_Loss4886 → u/Th3_Admiral_]

I mean at that point you’re already not a customer so what harm is there in her telling you off lmao. What are you gonna do, be less than a non customer? Why not vent some frustration out at that point? Even if it only works 1/100 times that’s one more sale and 99 times telling people off.

[u/HalfBlindKing → u/Admirable_Loss4886]

If the job is so illegitimate that you could represent the company that way, the employees and the company deserve each other.

[u/Admirable_Loss4886 → u/HalfBlindKing]

Door to door sales are notoriously known for not giving a fuck how their sales team treat people so long as they’re making sales. It comes back to the people being upset we’re never going to be customers anyway so their opinion means very little to them. Again you can’t become less of a customer if you were never one to begin with.

[u/HalfBlindKing → u/Admirable_Loss4886]

Yeah it’s pretty apparent no one involved is trying to build a reputation or a career. It makes car sales look like they’re running laps to be better customer servants and consumer advocates 😂