It was Saturday afternoon, I just woke up from my nap with this incredible thirst almost choking my throat. As I walked down the stairs, I heard my husband talking to a man with foreign accent in the kitchen. I was thinking…. this is Saturday afternoon. It can’t be some type of service guy because nothing is broken in our house. My husband also didn’t tell me that he’s expecting a company. Who is he talking to? When I walked into the kitchen, my husband introduced me to this young man with bleached blond hair. My husband said he’s here selling educational books. This young man is from Eastern Europe selling books with his broken English. He seems like a very nice guy, but I just don’t get it. I could feel a frown up on my forehead, since when we are having door to door salesman who actually walked inside our house?
This young man went on and on about the books. I wasn’t interested at all, especially after he said the whole set costs $400. Seriously, who in the right mind would possibly be buying these books? There are tons of books we can get from the library. School aged kids can also get these books for free.
After we told him that we’re not interested, he excused himself to use our powder room. I said to my husband, why did you even let him in? He said this is his second attempt to come to our house. The first one was when my husband came home from lunch and he was just about to go back to the office. When he opened the door, he actually thought it was his sister who was supposed to come to our house that afternoon.
After this young man got out of the powder room, we walked him out. We saw our next door neighbor in the backyard and went to see him to talk about this door to door selling. My neighbor didn’t even let this salesman in. He brought up some really good points:
- This salesman has made several attempts to come to our house, obviously he knows when we are or aren’t home
- The fact that Southwestern Books hired this poor Eastern European kid to sell books are just pathetic. They don’t know our school system, he doesn’t know that we can actually get these books for free. I hope to God he didn’t spend any money to buy initial inventory or anything like that to get started
- Door to door selling is just a big no no these days, both for the sales people and the homeowners safety. For the homeowners: you don’t know what kind of creeps you opened your door to. For the sales people, you don’t know what type of crazy people these homeowners are
Message to all my readers, don’t let anybody come inside your house no matter how nice these people look. These people might be genuinely nice but you’ll just never know. Besides, the whole system is just wrong. Unless you are boys/girls scout selling treats accompanied by your folks, I welcome you at my doorstep. Anybody else, no solicitation!!!
Tags: door to door selling, southwestern books
