Anybody else like me got them ringing and knocking on the door every bloody minute! How many times do I have to tell em we have got double glazing and Im happy with it. "But no sir its not the special super glass blah blah blah" If they come round again they are going through the front window. Then I might need em!!!!!!!! (blagger)
Invite him in and let him go through his patter then say No and do it next time. Let them waste there time
a mate o mine said come in to 1 salesman, after a small chit chat, he asked "how much will you give me for mine then" he said he looked at him puzzled and said nothing, he then told him to sling his hook cos his were only a few years old, and wanted a quote for his own 1st he left straight away gobsmacked
Had that a few years ago Me - "I'm not interested, I had double glazing installed a few years ago" Caller - "If you did choose to replace in the next couple of years would you consider us?" Me - "No" Caller - "May I ask why?" Me - "Because you installed them, so if I needed to replace them so soon I'd hardly come back to you!"
Yep We had most of our windows done by them but they keep bugging us to get the remaining ones done - they have a parent company who do guttering as well and they keep ringing too!
I couldnt get them to take my money! Someone in our street was having their windows done and they asked if we wanted a quote for ours. A surveyor came and measured up but would he buggery give us a quote. He was more interested in signing us up for credit terms which we didnt need because we had remortgaged and had the cash. I rang them up a few times but they werent interested so we went with a local firm in the end. You dont buy one and get one free. The interest on the finance probably pays for the second one.
They spent three hours when they came to us Couldn't get rid of em! Wouldn't mind but we did want them to fit the windows !
RE: Yep I asked them round to mine when i moved in last March. I stressed when he walked through the door that i only wanted a quote so i know how much i was looking at and to not try selling me them while he was there. Nearly 2 hours later he was still here after countless attempts of trying me to sign up for the finance etc. When i finally had enough and asked him to leave he then said that he had to phone up his boss to "clock out" and then 10 mins his boss was giving me the big sell. All i kept saying was "i don't want to by yet, just want a price". When he got the idea he just hung up Then 3 days later the guttering company as LiverpoolRed mentioned tried me and said that i need new guttering. I asked them how they know and the reply was "because we have been to your home and can see". Promptly told where to go
Standard hard sell cowboy tactics My mate used to sell Kirkby Vax years ago. Some of the tactics would be laughabe laughable if they were not targeted against those more vulnarable.
Told them to sod off as well Next day they phoned up again - ah you're that guttering firm and they put the phone down on me!
Was thinking about changing my windows so when a door-to-door Safestyle guy turned up I agreed they could give me a quote. Why not. Hours later a wide boy turns up and sits himself down. Bit of mindless chat where at one point I revealed I was from Barnsley. Oh says he, he's glad that my accent isn't strong because he can't stand the Barnsley accent. That's right daft bar steward, insult my family and friends why don't you. I keep smiling. Anyway, he hands me a catalogue and shows me how expensive the Safestyle range is. Apparently it would cost around £10k to replace half my windows and doors (I should mention I live in a semi, not a mansion). Really? Oh, but no... it turns out you see that he is in the area doing a job in the next town and he can tag these windows onto that sale in a bit of a dodgy deal, meaning he can do the windows for £2k (so more like the going rate for windows then). I ask him how he can do this and he tells me never to mind. He is a director and he can do this sort of thing. Hmm. I politely tell him I'll think about it. No he tells me, I need to sign up today if the windows are to be tagged onto the deal. I tell him I'm not signing up for anything and after a few minutes, resigned he buggers off. Safestyle ring the next day and ask why I wasn't interested. I ask who he was and it turns out he wasn't a director. Funny that. I tell them he lied to me, suggested a deal that was no doubt illegal and insulted my friends and family. They have their answer. They call again a few days later saying they have had many complaints about this guy and he has been sacked. Oh really. I tell them I'll not be doing any dealing with their immoral company. For the next year I got repeated calls from them asking me if I had changed my mind.