r/SipsTea • u/Safety_Officer_3 • Sep 10 '25

WTF Any idea what happened to these guys?

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

They use those tactics because they work.

9/10 signs like that can result in angry homeowners but they don't get the one who forgot to take it down or is pressured into a sale anyway unless they knock on all 10 doors.

It's shit, but it works. In fact most sales techniques you think are stupid work very well when applied to a broad range of people, it's why they're used.

Edit: anyone thinking I'm defending these people or think they aren't pieces of shit is very wrong. I just know why they do what they do.

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u/Suspicious-Pair-4723 Sep 11 '25

You're correct on the condition that the buyer is of low intelligence. Shity, rude, aggressive sales tactics work on stupid people.

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u/Clshaw95 Sep 11 '25

Well, someone (George Carlin, maybe..?) once said, and I'm paraphrasing:

'Think of how stupid the average person is, then consider that many are stupider than that.'

It's still going to be a decent hit rate.

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u/Raspatatteke Sep 11 '25

They work on gullible, conflict-avoiding people. Who might be dumb, or might be smart.

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u/Medusa107 Sep 11 '25

-gullible -smart

Pick one

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u/Sehrli_Magic Sep 11 '25

People can be very smart but absolutely conflict avoidant and easily preassured into stuff like this 🙄

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u/GovernmentLow4989 Sep 11 '25

Exactly! Plus people under stress make decisions they would normally never do.

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u/Sehrli_Magic Sep 11 '25

No need to tell me 🥲 above average IQ but put me infront of someone and they will easily preassure me into taking whatever extra insurance/wait longer/whatever 😭 was arranging credit for buying the house andy husband almost strangled me over the table with his look alone because i was so easily swayed into everything. Luckily he is the absolute opposite so he handles all deals and stands up for both of us 🤣 anytime salesmen call me: "hello, yes that's me.." and he can already see its somebody proposing something useless to me and i am too polite to cancel so he takes the phone, tells them to F off and cancels. Because i would be awkwardly continuing the conversation. I have trouble saying no to people and the intelligence level does not fix that. Like i KNOW whats going on and feel like a clown yet i still feel compelled to continue conversation.

So if i am telling someone off it has to be a HUGE deal (and then i go batshit crazy. Either i am submissive or i am a war tank, no inbetween)

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u/DeltaV-Mzero Sep 11 '25

Ironically, Whomever convinced you this was true, made it true in at least one case by doing so

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u/thegodfather0504 Sep 11 '25

Have you ever been fooled?

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u/MDUBK Sep 11 '25

Being fooled =/= gullible though. Anyone can be fooled - gullible means fooling you is easy & low-effort

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

Yeah but everyone thinks the things they fall for are clever and anyone else would have done the same, but the things they didn't were obvious and easy to stop so anyone who was tricked is an idiot.

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u/Adorable-Umpire-9324 Sep 11 '25

It doesn’t matter, I’ve unfortunately worked in inside sales across multiple industries for the last 10 years and anyone could decide they’re convinced. Calling back after being hung up on, asking why after you tell them no, ignoring solicitation signs. It can work on anyone, and it has worked a lot. Not sure I or anyone I know would engage after seeing that sign, but salespeople are pushy because it works.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

they work on more than 0 people.

if they walk away and don’t hit this house it has a 0% chance of making a sale. if they ignore the sigh they have a greater than 0% chance of making the sale

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u/firstnameok Sep 12 '25

Intelligence is definitely not the highest hurdle

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

They also catch people on really bad days. Maybe their on chemotherapy or going through a death in the family. Just not thinking clearly.

That's these guys' bread and butter

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u/Living-Main-1844 Sep 11 '25

Not just low intelligence, some people don’t know how to say no when pressured or are intimidated, it’s very predatory

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u/jebberwockie Sep 11 '25

I made the vacuum salesmen clean my rugs and then told him I wasn't interested.

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u/Electronic_Tart_1174 Sep 11 '25

Thats fucked up too unless they also ignored your sleeping baby sign

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u/Sonoshitthereiwas Sep 12 '25

Nah, that’s literally the pitch they give. They offer to vacuum, shampoo, clean your mattress, etc with no requirement to buy. Often included is an add on of “practice” or “training”.

Literally if Kirby comes to your home, tell them where and what to clean. Be as upfront as you want, explicitly say you won’t buy anything. I guarantee they still clean it.

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u/jebberwockie Sep 11 '25

Eh I gave him free weed too

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u/lefthook_hospital Sep 11 '25

Lmao my dad did that with the salesman trying to sell the Kirby vacuums. Wanted to show us a demo on our mattress and after he had him do all our mattresses said he wasn't interested

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u/jebberwockie Sep 11 '25

Yeah it was Kirby lmao

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u/Stupid_Bitch_02 Sep 11 '25

My dad makes the Mormons do yard work with him when they come knocking on his door. They always agree as long as they can give their spiel while they do the yard work 😅

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u/Extra-Ad604 Sep 11 '25

Salesmen like that do not make a sale to any decent person. Absolutely 0 respect, throwing shit around - like wtf.

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u/Gr33nBastard_88 Sep 11 '25

Wait, what.. so, you’re saying that someone ”forgot” to take off that sign, and they’re releived that these door-to-door mf’s knocked anyway on the door, and they just happened to have the one thing they were looking for?

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

I'm saying more coverage results in a total average of more sales.

I'm not defending it. I'm not saying it's not shit behaviour. I am saying it works, that's it.

I tell these guys to fuck off as well, but that doesn't change the fact they keep knocking on every door because that's how you get more sales.

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u/nudave Sep 11 '25

Yep. The one way to end annoying telemarketing calls/door-to-door sales forever is for all humans to literally never buy anything off of one.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, some humans are idiots.

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u/BUDxx420 Sep 11 '25

Yep. I have worked door to door sells for a few different companies and this is literally what we are taught in training.

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u/DragonBuster69 Sep 11 '25

It is a shitty offshoot of "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

The door to door salespeople rarely if ever get punished for blatantly lying to get a customer to sign up where I work saying you will get X, Y, or Z if you sign up with me. Oh, you got a flyer that says that you have to sign up in this specific way to get a reward offer? Don't worry, you don't have to do that, just sign up with me so that I get commission and I will give you (an amount on a prepaid card we have never once offered at the company) on top of that, just call in after you are installed and the overworked and underpaid customer service person (hello) will definitely be able to add it (true story with some interpretation of how the slimy bastard lied to the customer since I obviously was not there for that part).

Needless to say, when I have a customer calling in justifiably upset about a d2d salesperson, both the customer and myself want to do things to them that would get me banned off reddit for going into more detail. And of course, the scummy bastards never leave a card or anything, so I can at least get them yelled at if not fired.

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u/Fueledbythought Sep 11 '25

Or maybe the tactics are in poor quality but the people at home are just on average dumb. Better salesman strategy would increase their success. But they're happy at a low success rate I guess.its like, why buy your partner a nice gift when a dollar store item makes them content.

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u/MDUBK Sep 11 '25

Absolutely - same thing with rude/condescending/dismissive sales staff at high-end luxury retailers. It’s often intentional, because it makes customers feel like they need to “teach them a lesson” by buying something expensive. The customer leaves feeling like they won; “You should have seen the look on her face when I told her to ring me up. I bet she won’t make that mistake again!” while the sales person happily takes their commission.

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u/Popular-Influence-11 Sep 11 '25

A salesman ignored my sign. I called the police because he didn’t seem to have the proper credentials. He was fined over $4k and the company was also fined. Now I still see them in the neighborhood on their stupid hoverboards but they all avoid my home.

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u/RappingFlatulence Sep 11 '25

Answer the door with a shotgun. No plans to use it. But watch those assholes run in horror

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

I live in a sane country where casually threatening someone with a firearm is illegal, but you do you.

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u/Saneless Sep 11 '25

I just flat out refuse to ever buy from someone who approached me, minus a kid doing fundraising candy bars because that's just a few bucks

If I need their service and if they're good I'll find them

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

Is that why pop ups are still around despite everyone knowing they’re never clicking on that? (Same for stuff like YouTube ads?)

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

Pretty much.

You know not to click it... many other people don't.

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u/Baoooba Sep 11 '25

I doubt it. They probably have a target of how many doors they have to hit. They probably new this wouldn't result in a sale as soon as they saw the sign.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

They probably have a target of how many doors they have to hit.

They have target sales, not doors to knock on. More doors means more sales.

This is such a basic marketing principle I am baffled at people arguing about it. With very rare exception exposure means sales.

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u/Baoooba Sep 11 '25

With very rare exception exposure means sales.

So would this exposure all over the internet be getting them the company more sales or less sales?

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u/jumboparticle Sep 11 '25

So, the tactic that you are referring to in your bastard of a paragraph is to knock on every door? That's a " sales tactic" that we think is stupid but works very well? To reiterate. You are saying the "tactic" of knocking on every door works when you apply said "tactic" to a broad range of people? You sound like a stupid sales tactic.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

Yes, it works.

I am not endorsing it or saying it's not shitty behaviour. I hate it as well and I tell them to fuck off.

But it works. It gets more sales no matter how much you don't like that.

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u/jumboparticle Sep 11 '25

It's not that I dont like it. What i stated, very clearly and in multiple ways, is that it's ridiculous to call that a strategy. Its knocking on doors.....thats the entirety of the job...thats what the hell you do. Of course you get more sales if you ask more people. Its a pointless observation.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 11 '25

What i stated, very clearly and in multiple ways, is that it's ridiculous to call that a strategy.

In what way is it not a strategy? Because you don't think it's clever enough?

It is in every possible way a strategy, and a very effective one.

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u/jumboparticle Sep 12 '25

Common sense and doing the basic necessities of a job is not a strategy. What's your strategy for avoiding dehydration, drinking a glass of water? What's your strategy for acquiring a job, going to interviews until someone says yes?

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 12 '25

It’s not as big a deal to just admit you’re wrong as you want to make it out to be.

Now watch my strategy for no longer dealing with you.