The Bad Ideas Thread.AKA as the I told you so

Here you go @Julio_Geordio .Knock yourself out.

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Signing up to change your television deal with somebody from a television provider who knocks on the door.

Television services which mean you are unable to record television programmes.

One should never buy anything from a door to door salesperson re utilities as there is no way of recording what was said/offered.

We used to have awful hassle in a job with these folk signing up customers on our behalf, offering them deals that didn’t exist for commission purposes, and we’d have no way of verifying if the customer or the salesperson lied. Then we had such an avalanche of incidents over a few years to realise that the practice was endemic.

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I always feel.sorry for the unfortunates trying to sell these packages. Anyone willing to get door slammed in their faces all day must be bang under pressure for a few bob. I don’t let Mrs Barnes answer the door to them at all anymore, because she has signed us up out of pity a few times.

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I got a rascal tv deal one year through Vodafone which got me Sky Sports for an extra €1 a month. The salesperson was a little hottie who I invited into the kitchen to do the paperwork and I got unpleasantly surprised when Mrs Spidey and our kid arrived in 10 mins later.

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Jesus.

Sounds like a Fred West tactic.

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It was cold bro

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And was your wife ok with you inviting a young fella into your house?

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When i was about 19, cracked the shits and moved to dublin. had door to door trocaire sales as only gig i could get. Horrid shit.

A guy whod ‘left’ the guards for career change was the prodigal door botherer. Every morning,.without fail, hed get to display his prowess as chief bell botherer by ‘ringing the bell’ for meeting sales targets. (Think 9 signups a day via direct debit)

Hed be wheeled out regularly to.explain 'its really not that hard lads, the formula is x,y,z". Messiah

One morning a few of his former colleagues in blue called in for the morning meeting. Shiny braclets and squad car. Cunt had been lashing in any credit card number once hed a resident name and address. Done for fraud, skimmed mucho moolah off trocaire. Massive dough.

Doubt the senior cunts who wheeled him out as the paragon returned their ill gotten gains either.

Door to door/mlm catches kids, suckers, down on their lucks and last resorters

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Nasty. I’ve seen a few salespeople down the years with absolutely zero morals or scruples.

It’s much harder to refuse someone face to face in your own home after they’ve given a sales pitch, as opposed to over the phone…especially if you’re not a cunt.

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3rd party sales group were getting more in commissjon than trocaire were from signing people up. Pressuring people for credit card details on their dorstep.

All kinds of wrong

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Saorise Bulfin to Westmeath. I mean. Come on