HL writes in the Forum today:
Just a heads up that the Phinney neighborhood is being canvassed by a couple of (hopefully legitimate) reps from Evans Glass. White male, African American female, both late 20s or so. I’m ok with the effort but they were very aggressive and wouldn’t take multiple repetitions of “no thanks” and “not interested” for an answer. The guy was still yammering away when I shut the door.
Anyone else have a problem with these or other solicitors? Care to share your anti-solicitor tips?
24 responses so far ↓
1 Exact Same Experience // Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Knocked loudly on my door in afternoon while my toddler was napping.
He told me something about looking at my roof (?) and it needing some work. As I tried to politely tell him I’m a renter and my landlord takes care of these things he got sorta testy with me when I wasn’t taking his flyer
2 Aka // Jun 9, 2009 at 4:46 pm
My suggestion is to ask thru the CLOSED door ” who is it ?” and then say ” no thanks” and walk away from the door. If the door is open simply close it after saying no. They count on you waiting for them to leave first. You be first!
3 Whopper // Jun 9, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Open your door with your gun. Works like a charm at scaring scumbags off everytime.
4 Neighbor // Jun 9, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Uh, has anyone actually called Evans Glass to doublecheck that these folks are legit? I’m assuming the original forum poster did just that — but certainly a significant volume of calls to the company could get it to change its ways, assuming the canvassers were in fact legit. I know I wouldn’t want my summer help angering/freaking out my potential customers …
5 Neighbor // Jun 9, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I don’t mean to rip on anyone’s business or livelihood without them deserving it. But I do believe it’s important to note that Evans Glass Seattle had its Better Business Bureau accreditation revoked in February — and the bureau has received no less than 92 complaints about the company in the past 3 years. Yikes.
6 Neighbor // Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Linkage: http://www.bbb.org/western-washington/business-reviews/windows/evans-glass-inc-in-seattle-wa-7042270
7 jm // Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Seems like a door-to-door sales pitch is a thing of the distant past. It could be suspicious.
8 Bella // Jun 9, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Yeah, two guys from there came to our door within minutes of each other. It did seem a little scam-ish, especially since the first guy did kind of a “shaveandahaircut” kind of knock, and less than five minutes later there was another knock.
This happened before 3pm on a weekday too, when most people aren’t home.
It occurred to me that they could be looking for homes with no one home, or if allowed inside, to case the place for a later return.
I didn’t have trouble getting rid of them, but three barking dogs probably helped.
9 sezdog // Jun 9, 2009 at 7:47 pm
A dog is a very good deterrent—barking or just being beside you when you answer the door.
A screen or a storm door that you don’t open when you open your front door is good. If I hear someone open my storm door when they ring the doorbell, I don’t answer the door.
I don’t answer the door when I don’t want to and I don’t care if they know someone is home.
And finally, I tell solicitors that I don’t do business on my front porch.
10 Tiktok // Jun 9, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I suggest taking a picture whenever you open the door to someone.
11 Jeannette // Jun 10, 2009 at 8:34 am
They came to our house!! They were EXTREMELY aggressive. When we told them we weren’t interested, they got even more aggressive and rude. They wouldn’t leave it alone.
12 Heather // Jun 10, 2009 at 9:01 am
I have had many similar experiences with Evans Glass sales reps. I had a pair of reps come to do an estimate at my request and couldn’t get them out of my house for 2 hours! I won’t even open the door to their sales people any more.
13 Steve // Jun 10, 2009 at 9:10 am
Call the cops if you see this behavior. While they may be Evans Glass people, it’s also as likely that they’re casing houses (or worse). In the past couple months, we’ve had two people come by three times claiming to be raising money for their high school baseball team. Trouble is, they looked like they were in their early 20s. We called the cops.
14 Trapper // Jun 10, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Several years ago, I became fed up with all of the people knocking on my door for various things. Now, I have a sign on my door, which reads
NO SOLICITING – Translation: Don’t ask me to sign anything, don’t ask me for money, don’t ask me to buy anything, including, but not limited to, your brand of God. In short, the answer is no.
The few times that the person has ignored it and knocked, I ask them if they can read. When they answer yes, I shut the door.
15 Seattle Mike // Jun 10, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Don’t wait for their permission to shut the door after you’ve said “Not interested.” They’re going to keep talking until you shut the door. Just like telemarketers. Don’t wait for their permission to hang up after saying “Not interested.”
16 sad neighbor // Jun 10, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Penguin Windows has been doing the same thing NW of 85th and Greenwood. They are extremely aggressive and fill out these forms while you are saying “NO.” They even knew when I bought this house, how much I paid for it, when it was built, etc. They come by in the middle of the day. I called penguin to complain and asked them to take me off their door-to-door campaign.
17 Ian // Jun 11, 2009 at 1:19 pm
sad neighbor, the construction date and details of your house purchase is public knowledge.
18 kim // Jun 11, 2009 at 1:59 pm
i did w/a guy from the seattle times. he got so pissed off since i would subscribed. i almost called the cops since he wouldn’t leave the property after i had said no multiple times.
19 sad neighbor // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:39 am
Thanks Ian. I know it is public knowledge, it was just unsettling to have this very aggressive person with all this knowledge coming to my house during business hours (I work at home and am alone all day) and refusing to leave after I said no many times. Upon shutting the door in his face, he still rang the doorbell again. Just unsettling
20 Sasha // Jun 12, 2009 at 11:16 am
Dont want to be accused of slander but,
you are right to be wary of this Co.
21 sprizee // Jun 22, 2009 at 1:24 pm
My husband had the same issue with a Penguin Windows representative about 6 months ago. He politely declined several times and then when the rep wouldn’t take no for an answer he finally had to shut the door in his face. Penguin Windows representative was very unprofessional and rude.
22 Jo // Mar 15, 2010 at 9:40 am
Had a guy from the Seattle Times on my door last Friday night.
Amazing story: first he pointed out the Seattle Times would deliver their newspaper for free to the whole street (NW 86th), but wanted to take my name and address… Soon later he asked for a 2 buck donation every week. Suddenly it was 20 bucks for three months and finally it went up to 27 bucks for 10 weeks…
If you ask me that’s illegal and highly criminal!
Now there’s a no soliciting sign on my door
23 Concerned Lurker // Aug 13, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I am sure that they are legitimately with Evan’s Glass. BUT, if you find them to be overly aggressive, file a complaint with the Attorney General. They have a history of this, and recently had to settle a claim based upon their aggressiveness.
24 Laddie // Sep 15, 2010 at 4:37 pm
I’m lucky I’m a male about 20lbs overweight… I saw them in the neighborhood earlier in the day so was just waiting for them. I quickly removed all my clothes, answered the door and invited them in for tea… Poor little guys didn’t know what to think! Needless to say it was over in a hurry… This works great on mormons too!
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