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How about an alternative explanation? What if a substantial amount of local solar contractors are doing door to door sales? Or other locality/proximity based s
by dragontamer 7mo ago
How about an alternative explanation?
What if a substantial amount of local solar contractors are doing door to door sales? Or other locality/proximity based sales (signs, driving a car with ads on it, and the like?)
- 4ndrewl 7mo agoIs there evidence for this?
- cyberax 7mo agoI worked at a company that made a product just for this purpose: making estimates for solar panels for door-to-door sales. It was pretty popular.
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoThere are a number of companies that specialize in using an in-person, in-home encounter to put pressure on people to make poor purchases decisions, enough so that many states have implemented buyer’s remorse laws.
- kylecazar 7mo agoI'm writing this from CT. There are absolutely door to door solar salespeople (they don't work for the manufacturer, they work for a local distributor/installation service), and they absolutely tell you how many people in your neighborhood have bought from them. They ride around on segways here.
- 4ndrewl 7mo agoThank you. I'm not from the US and I had no idea door-to-door sales were still a thing, let alone for significant investments such as solar.
- dragontamer 7mo agoPretty much every time a contractor does something to any of my neighbors homes, they knock on my door and say "2 or 3 other neighbors are doing X (pesticides, windows, landscaping, new water heater, power washer, etc. etc). Your home was built around the same time as theirs. Because all of my crew is already in the area on (date) I'm offering half off if you agree to service". The fact is that these contractors really do have significant efficiency gains if they can get multiple neighbors to agree to similar work. So it behooves them to do at least a bit of door knocking.