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VA: Fucking Magazine Salesman

Jun 28th, 2007

(10 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5)

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14 Responses to “VA: Fucking Magazine Salesman”

1. on 28 Jun 2007 at 11:41 pm1Pasketti

   I hate door-to-door salesmen.

   I put a big NO SOLICITING sign on my front door, right at eye level.

   I even stuck a label on it that says THIS MEANS YOU.

   You’d think that they’d see that and maybe get a hint that I’m not interested.

   But no. They still knock.

   The Jeebus freaks are the worst. “But I’m not selling anything!”

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2. on 29 Jun 2007 at 12:20 am2Holland

   Was this one of those guys who claims to be a student selling magazines to win a contest? You know that is just a scam, right?

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3. on 29 Jun 2007 at 3:09 am3dannette

   I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do that.

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4. on 29 Jun 2007 at 1:53 pm4me

   He’s trying to pay his damn rent. He’s doing his job just like anyone else. Cut the guy a damn break.

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5. on 29 Jun 2007 at 2:12 pm5wildthang7864

   HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

   Stupid Fucker.

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6. on 29 Jun 2007 at 5:00 pm6Pasketti

   #4: When I have a fucking SIGN on my fucking DOOR that says NO SOLICITING, and HE KNOCKS ANYWAY, then…

   I will NOT be impressed by his spunky can-do attitude.

   I WILL be annoyed that I had to stop what I was doing.

   And most of all, I will NOT cut him any slack.

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7. on 29 Jun 2007 at 5:16 pm7jenny984

   9am is late?!?! What? Is V like 70?

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8. on 29 Jun 2007 at 9:06 pm8olb

   @4

   Its true that they’re trying to make a living, but they’re talking to someone who’s not interested from the beginning, giving the schpiel would be just a waste of time and energy on a no sale anyways, better to hit the next place to get a better potential buyer.

   Also, being an ass and pissing off the potential customer makes it a lot harder to sell the product. They’ve been told about the various techniques on reading people and watching for signs/tells, but if they don’t do it properly, it just bites them in the ass. (And the public being more educated/aware of sales tactics helps too.)

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9. on 30 Jun 2007 at 1:30 am9me

   When you’re knocking on doors, EVERYONE is disinterested in the beginning. Often, people will become interested and buy the product/donate to the cause/love Jesus once their initial annoyance passes. If door-to-door salesmen left everytime someone was slightly annoyed, they would never get out a salespitch. If you are really *that* busy that you don’t have 5 minutes to spare, you shouldn’t have opened the door.

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10. on 30 Jun 2007 at 1:41 am10Lisah

    Serious? Do you have some kind of awesome psychic power that lets you know who’s on the other side of your door before you open it? OK, maybe you have a peep-hole. Even so, how do you know that the person standing there is selling magazines vs. letting you know that the house next door is on fire? Your method is so passive aggressive; why not be comfortable with telling the person straight up that you’re not interested. After all, he’s imposing his presence upon YOU at YOUR HOUSE.

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11. on 01 Jul 2007 at 4:08 am11Olb

    Just put a shot gun next to the door for that purpose=) (Unloaded of coarse, for obvious safety reasons.

    @9

    There’s slightly annoyed and there’s being pissed off. Being woken for a sales pitch usually falls in the latter. And they’re usually targeting those who are home-bound or those who are looking for company. If you don’t fall into either of those categories, you probably could buy whatever they’re selling elsewhere without the hassle of being pitched to.

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12. on 02 Jul 2007 at 8:22 pm12Kat

    @9 -

    If you are ringing my doorbell, you are standing on a piece of property I am paying money for. I pay the taxes on that property as my fair share, I pay the mortgage (meaning I OWN at least a few centimeters of it) and I pay the insurance on it, in case you stub your toe while you are on my property uninvited and decide to sue me.

    We are not talking about a piece of property you were invited to come onto. There is no sign out that says “I would appreciate it if all solicitors, be it god or goods, would stop by…”. If I wanted that, I would put that sign out.

    So if a solicitor is going to come UNIVITED onto my PRIVATE PROPERTY, I do not ‘owe’ them anything… ‘just doing their job’ is as much an entitlement attitude as “… I am going to have another kid I can not afford, so give me money and food.”

    If he is an asshole enough to decide to make a living trespassing on peoples property, interrupting peoples dinners and then ignoring them when they say ‘no thank you’, he gets NOTHING from me… and certainly does not ‘deserve’ it because ‘he is just doing his job’.

    Unless of course, he wants to pay me a percentage of the sale he just made… he was, after all, using MY property to solicit his sale. That makes us partners… I think I at LEAST deserve half, since I am paying for the land and all the utilities of his ‘office’ and ’showroom’.

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13. on 07 Jul 2007 at 7:31 pm13LARRY

    FOR ANY SALES PERSON IT IS A FACT THAT MOST PRODUCTS DO NOT MARKET THEMSELVES. IT TAKES SOMEONE TO DO THAT. IF YOU HAVE EVER OWNED A PAIR OF NAME BRAND SHOES THAN YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO A MARKETING SCHEME AND SO IT GOES WITH CARS, CLOTHS, TOYS ECT. SO YOU SEE TO BE SO HARD ON A REPRESENTATIVE IS NOT THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TO HAVE. BECAUSE YOUR ALREADY THE FOOL. JUST SOMEONE ELSES. SORRY, MORE FOR YOU THAT YOU CAN NOT SEE THAT.

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14. on 11 Jul 2007 at 9:00 am14Eschaton

    Actually, these “magazine crews” are often a scam - but the ones being scammed are as much the people selling door to door as the customers signing up to buy magazines. Just search Google for “magazine crew” and the first hit will be a New York Times article titled “For Youths, a Grim Tour on Magazine Crews.” Not something I’d want to enable…

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