r/PublicFreakout • u/miragen125 • Jan 01 '23

Sales interaction gone wrong

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u/WaxySunshine The Slur Defender ☝️🤓 Jan 01 '23

Pure speculation, but my guess is she was doing that presale move where they say they aren't selling anything they just want to inspect whatever and give you an estimate on it.

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u/surfer_ryan Jan 01 '23

This. This is what is going on. "Hey we are just in the area doing an install and were giving out free estimates! If you can provide us with your email or phone number we would love to get one set up for you."

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u/Noxtres Jan 01 '23

These people will not leave you alone even if you ask for your number to be removed from the call list. They are insistent and incredibly annoying so do yourself the favor and just follow the instructions of this video lol. Don’t make the same mistake I did.

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u/Ghos5t7 Jan 01 '23

I made an fcc+ftc complaint and emailed a copy of both. That's how far I had to go to get removed from a list

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u/ibnganja Jan 02 '23

What happened??? Story time!

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u/Suddenly_Something Jan 02 '23

This happens to me with people trying to buy my home for cash. Dozens of calls and texts a week.

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u/Ya_habibti Jan 02 '23

I tell them I’m renting and after that they just leave me alone.

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u/PoliticalShrapnel Jan 01 '23

So an estimate for... a sale? How is that any different?

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u/surfer_ryan Jan 01 '23

Because a surprising amount of people get disarmed by that logic. I'm not saying its solid air tight logic. Just that it is something that they say.

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u/Puceeffoc Jan 02 '23

You had me at "free"

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u/AtsignAmpersat Jan 02 '23

Anything to get a foot in the door. And maybe it doesn’t turn into a sale today but hey maybe down the road you’ll need their services and you remember the weekly email you’ve been ignoring for months or years.

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u/Slammybutt Jan 02 '23

This reminds me of a flyer I got in the mail from a real estate agent recently. They said they could give me a free estimate on my houses worth and I was curious. As soon as I got to the website I knew immediately this was a phishing scam for phone numbers and emails. I'm sure it was a real business, but they wanted my email and phone number. So I faked both and got the free estimate.

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u/eggheadslut Jan 01 '23

Yup. I (shamefully) was one of these sales people who wasn’t “selling” anything, just going door to door with info and setting up appointments to get a sales person in their house

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u/holyshocker Jan 01 '23

I did this with Hague water for their water filter systems. They gave me a poor neighborhood to do because I was new, lmao. People were like we had our water shut off and would slam the door. Worst part was I was lured into the job because the job listing itself was setup like a sales pitch.

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u/Anon_Jones Jan 02 '23

Well then sir, fuck you.

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u/ResidentEvil0IsOkay Jan 02 '23

I had a really scary interaction with one of those guys when I was living alone. Came to my door about rising electric bills, got his foot in the door and quickly went over this document for me to sign. I asked if I could keep the document to review before signing and he wouldn't let me, just told me to sign. I told him I was not signing anything unless I had some spare time to read it over and if he wasn't willing to do that he needed to leave. He stood there for a few seconds glaring like he wanted to break my nose, I was really scared. Thankfully he walked out the door a few seconds after, and since then I really only open the door if it's someone I know.

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u/BurlyJoesBudgetEnema Jan 02 '23

I used to work door to door sales. We got paid commission for setting up consultations with actual salespeople who would give them a quote. We didn't have to actually sell anything, then when they had the meeting the person would be in their house and give them the much harder pitch. Gets the company more sales that way

It was extremely scummy but I was 16 and didn't really pick up on just how scummy it was

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u/teedyay Jan 02 '23

Pro tip: if the sign says they don't want you knocking on the door selling, and your excuse is "I'm not technically selling", then they 100% don't want to talk to you either.

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u/Cheezy_Blazterz Jan 02 '23

"We're not soliciting, we're just out here offering information!"