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re: Now I'm The A-Hole - Door to Door Salesperson
Posted on 6/25/25 at 10:56 am to The Torch
Posted on 6/25/25 at 10:56 am to The Torch
Most are college kids doing it for experience. My nephew is at LSU and got recruited to go to New Jersey and do door to door pest control. He came home after a few weeks ??
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Posted on 6/25/25 at 10:57 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I use to go door to door, selling doors.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:00 am to muttenstein
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This is why when we are at home, the cars are in the garage and the garage is closed
I did this for years. One day, I came to the realization that I don’t need to hide in my own damn house.
I now ignore them the first time. The second time they show up, I courteously point out to them that there is a “no solicitation” policy in my neighborhood. Additionally, I point out that solicitors have to have a permit in my town.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:00 am to LNCHBOX
I wouldn't be particularly thrilled that my daughter was a door to door salesman.
Really? Thanks for proving my point. I’m sure you were the CEO of the company you work for in your 20’s. Sorry you didn’t get the experience of grinding when you were young and moving up based on merit. I worked in a ditch at age 15 for $6 an hour an entire summer in Atlanta, GA. My parents weren’t exactly thrilled either but I’m a better person for it.
Really? Thanks for proving my point. I’m sure you were the CEO of the company you work for in your 20’s. Sorry you didn’t get the experience of grinding when you were young and moving up based on merit. I worked in a ditch at age 15 for $6 an hour an entire summer in Atlanta, GA. My parents weren’t exactly thrilled either but I’m a better person for it.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:04 am to The Torch
It teaches you how to cold call that’s for sure.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:06 am to The Torch
I just keep ignoring them until they go away.
I get a lot of people wanting to sell me a new roof. Unfortunately, I can’t afford one.
I get a lot of people wanting to sell me a new roof. Unfortunately, I can’t afford one.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:09 am to The Torch
Good on her, she is on schedule (first knock by 7:59), is efficient (only stopping at houses with kids, you have clues on the exterior of your house or the neighbors sold you out yesterday), and she is patiently persistent (saw your car in the driveway and assumed you were taking a shite or jacking off so she gave you time to finish up and knocked louder / rang the bell to make sure you knew she was there).
Don’t feel bad about being an a-hole, that comes with the territory of knocking in big brick, or more likely mullet brick (brick on the front siding on the back) since you are posting on the OT instead of working.
She is selling educational books to help her pay for her college back in Estonia or Bulgaria, they send around 500+ kids here every summer to do the job that American college kids are too lazy to do in 2025. Some of the experienced Euro kids make $50-$100k in a summer, it is pretty wild.
Their younger kids books are pretty good if you are the type of family that is into reading and education and shite. Nothing you couldn’t find on Amazon or B & N and you can even find most of the SW books on EBay these days for 10% of what she is selling them for. But they have someone else’s cooties all over them.
The older kids books, the “study guides” are basically a cross between cliffs notes and teachers editions of all the subjects kids get homework in. They are also quality books but probably only get used by 20% of the families who buy them because they forget about them or the book girl never properly showed the family how to use them. Now that ChatGPT can answer any homework question (how do you do this math problem, conjugate this sentence, give me a 2 page study guide for a quiz on this topic, etc) faster than you can look something up in a book or on a search engine I don’t see the SW Advantage books being as useful for even the 20% who would actually use them.
But the younger kids books are legit if yours are early elementary or younger.
Next time, just tell her through the speaker on your doorbell that you are not interested, you don’t care who else bought them, and that there is a pony down the street so get to stepping.
Your wife sounds like she is definiely a book buyer though.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:20 am to Pecos Pedro
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Your wife sounds like she is definiely a book buyer though.
She's not allowed to get involved after we had the traveling knife salesman come over and cook dinner.
She has the inability to tell people to F Off.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:22 am to The Torch
The boldness of an adult door to door salesman in 2025. A tactic that needs to die a painful death. The only acceptable door to door salesman is a kid for a school fundraiser or girl scout cookies.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:32 am to The Torch
I have zero patience for door to door solicitors and I don't normally care what you're selling.
The last time this happened to me was a teenage boy with a bucket, sponge, chamois and other cleaning supplies saying he was trying to start a car washing business to make some summer money.
I didn't go off on him but did tell him I wash my own vehicles and had no need for his services, but did say it was good to see a young man trying to hustle some work to make himself some money.
That was the first time in a couple years someone came by trying to sell something.
The last time this happened to me was a teenage boy with a bucket, sponge, chamois and other cleaning supplies saying he was trying to start a car washing business to make some summer money.
I didn't go off on him but did tell him I wash my own vehicles and had no need for his services, but did say it was good to see a young man trying to hustle some work to make himself some money.
That was the first time in a couple years someone came by trying to sell something.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 11:35 am to tigersownall
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It teaches you how to cold call that’s for sure.
Southwestern is basically a pyramid scheme, but if you can make it through a summer of Southwestern going door to door and make some money, you're one hell of a salesperson. I like when I see resumes with Southwestern (or really any door-to-door experience) on them. If you can break them of the bad habits taught to them by Southwestern or whatever pest-control company they worked for, they have potential to be great hires. They really learn a lot getting so many doors slammed in their face and some of those kids have some drive. You get a mix of people with a lot of drive or weirdos. No real in between.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:25 pm to Larry_Hotdogs
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The only acceptable door to door salesman is a kid for a school fundraiser or girl scout cookies.
This is OK with me but I still probably ain't answering the door because I got rid of our doorbell camera and would just assume its the pest control fricks or the Vivint home security folks.
Those Vivint fricks won't stop in our neighborhood. Our house is on a corner lot directly across the street from the community pool. They are convinced its an ideal place for cameras to monitor a neighborhood where the worst crimes committed are tax evasion and probably sodomy given the prudish nature of the state of Georgia where any sex act outside of one performed in a marriage in an attempt to procreate could land you in jail. Our neighborhood watch shares that opinion...both Vivint and the watch has tried numerous times to convince us to put cameras on our house. I have told both if there was some form of payment for the service I would consider it but it would have to be fairly lucrative given the value of the risk I would be thwarting with those cameras. Neither group has gone beyond this phase of the negotiation. In an attempt to sweeten the pot for my concerned neighbors I have told them if they would merely pay our HOA fees, security monitoring fees and property taxes annually I would serve as the eye in the sky for the community. Thus far they do not seem to be on board. I do not expect them to become interested in the future.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:31 pm to gumbo2176
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I have zero patience for door to door solicitors and I don't normally care what you're selling.
The last time this happened to me was a teenage boy with a bucket, sponge, chamois and other cleaning supplies saying he was trying to start a car washing business to make some summer money.
I didn't go off on him but did tell him I wash my own vehicles and had no need for his services, but did say it was good to see a young man trying to hustle some work to make himself some money.
That was the first time in a couple years someone came by trying to sell something.
I would have paid him to wash the cars but I wouldn't have answered the door so I would have never known he was offering. A kid down the street from us washes our garbage cans twice a month for $25 but he posted that service on Facebook. Used to have one who picked up dog shite in the back yard but she is off to college so its piling up and no end in sight....
Imagine a community where garbage cans are washed and you can pay someone to clear the back yard of doggy mines. This is the world we live in and we are convinced the world is going to hell in a hand basket and the end is nigh LOL....Air conditioning, indoor plumbing, washed garbage cans and someone picking up the dog shite and its the worst time ever to be alive.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:32 pm to The Torch
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Wife says I'm the a-hole
I don't know if you are an a-hole but that was definitely a-hole behavior.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:33 pm to The Torch
I have seen your posting for quite a while. You are an a-hole but it is not necessarily because of this.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:33 pm to The Torch
You are the a-hole. Girl didn’t know you weren’t interested. Now if you told her and she persisted? Then F bombs away!
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:34 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Southwestern is basically a pyramid scheme, but if you can make it through a summer of Southwestern going door to door and make some money, you're one hell of a salesperson. I like when I see resumes with Southwestern (or really any door-to-door experience) on them. If you can break them of the bad habits taught to them by Southwestern or whatever pest-control company they worked for, they have potential to be great hires. They really learn a lot getting so many doors slammed in their face and some of those kids have some drive. You get a mix of people with a lot of drive or weirdos. No real in between.
Never though of it but for a commissioned salesman in any industry I suspect it is indicative of some ability and drive to last more than a month or so. Good point.
Having said that I also have about the same opinion of outside sales people LOL. Back in the day when they would offer a fishing trip once in a while or some other similar perk I could tolerate them but that seems to be outside the norm now.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:37 pm to The Torch
My dog alerts me to their presence as soon as they enter the driveway, I instantly walk out and shut it down without ever hearing an introduction or what they are selling. I am a complete a-hole to them.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:38 pm to Dcurry80
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Most are college kids doing it for experience. My nephew is at LSU and got recruited to go to New Jersey and do door to door pest control.
For a few years there, it seemed like every college age kid the wife and I knew gave us a call wanting to sell us Cutco Knives. That crap went on for about 5 years and it got old quick.
I love to cook and have more than enough knives in my inventory and I know how to keep them razor sharp for use, so I have no need for more knives----even ones you can send back to the factory for free sharpening.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 12:38 pm to OGTiger
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Sorry you didn’t get the experience of grinding when you were young and moving up based on merit.
You have zero clue what I've gone through in my life.
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I worked in a ditch at age 15 for $6 an hour an entire summer in Atlanta, GA.
Infinitely better than door to door sales, but you knew that.
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