Comments | ferretlightning: Fun with con men

ferretlightning

Fun with con men

Feb 19, 2009 11:58

Yesterday, we had someone approach us claiming our insurance would pay for the chip in our windshield. Came to our door after eyeballing the car in the driveway. We decided to do a little research and these are usually businesses of questionable repute. A little research on this particular one turned up 14 complaints to the BBB in 3 years, and a ( Read more... )

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Gah! captainwhimsy February 19 2009, 20:08:54 UTC

Hate solicitation at my door. Response tree goes along the line of:

Sorry. Not interested.
Really Not Interested.
Ok, Fuck off now.
*goes to get item to defend my property with*

Re: Gah! ferretlightning February 19 2009, 20:25:58 UTC

I think the difference is that maybe Jonathan answered the door (or maybe this guy had a good line). Typically, I barely let them get anything out of their mouth. As soon as I realize they're selling something, I just say "not interested" and close the door. I won't even have a conversation with them. A fair amount of time, anything sold door-to-door is a scam.

Re: Gah! ferretlightning February 19 2009, 20:31:56 UTC

And I know they're scams from personal experience. I narrowly avoided 2 in Illinois (one of which was a company pretending to be in some way associated with our gas company when they actually were another organization entirely doing some kind of gas company slamming).

Sad, but I just won't even bother anymore. Anyone knocking on my door better be someone I know or on fire and in need of some dirt and a phone call to 911.

charlayne February 20 2009, 02:41:30 UTC

I was REALLY stupid and paid 350 to a fly-by-night group to trim my big tree and the two smaller ones. I had to run grab my grandkids and when I got back, they were gone. One branch was cut and hacked into pieces, piled by my mailbox.

I was furious. And I felt stupid (and still do).

I will never trust again. it just doesn't happen.