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Argh, I hate the solar salesmen. We get them all the time during the warm season. I have a hard time going the rude route and just shutting the door on them,
by rootusrootus 4y ago
Argh, I hate the solar salesmen. We get them all the time during the warm season. I have a hard time going the rude route and just shutting the door on them, but I'm improved a lot in shutting down their arguments with three sentences of my own stats. Pretty quickly they know I've run the numbers, figured out why it doesn't make sense for me, and I've shut down all arguments they want to make. Usually they just say "Wow, it sounds like you're already given this a lot of thought." Umm, yeah, yeah I have. I wanted the numbers to work. I tried to convince myself. Even with Project Solar pricing, it does't work for me. So it sure as hell won't work if I pay your prices that give you such a nice commission.
- JohnFen 4y agoTell them you're broke.
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- fourch 4y agoCold salespeople are such scum. They take advantage of telephones are doorbells, which can interrupt your focus at any time, and are really intended only for people that you actually know. Thankfully we now have caller ID and the ability to block unknown callers. Now we need the same for doorbells!
- VBprogrammer 4y agoIsn't that what Ring and a dozen other smart doorbells are made for?
- Wistar 4y agoDon't know if that's what they are made for but screening is certainly one way I use them.
- rs999gti 4y agoPut a no solicitation sign on your door. I used to get bothered by Jehovahs Witnesses and salesmen, but a ‘No Solicitation’ sticker on my front door was the best improvement I’ve done to my house
- jrs235 4y agoSadly, I've learned how many people don't know what solicitation means and I have to explain it to them. Sigh.
- tedmiston 4y agoNothing wrong with just not answering. How long are they really going to stand there waiting?
- lazide 4y agoSome people in polite parts of the country have a hard time ending a conversation if the other party won’t let them/follow the local social protocol (not being sarcastic).
- rootusrootus 4y agoWhen I was a bachelor, that was my strategy. Still annoying, but at least I avoided the confrontation. Now I have a couple youngish kids and more often than not knocks at the door mean friends coming over, so they end up answering without checking first and then I get called to deal with the stranger at the door.
- shiftpgdn 4y agoI just tell them I already signed a contract with the last solar salesman and they’re coming tomorrow to install it.