No Solicitors

[kap]

Does that sign have any legal significance? We are thinking of getting one because we are tired of getting phone calls and having our door bell rings from THEM. TiA

[davester]

I don't think it'll have much effect on the phone calls. I'd say that a good number of the people who are soliciting don't understand such a long multisyllable word. A number of them also don't consider that what they are doing is soliciting. The rest of them either don't give a damn.

[Ken Sp.]

We shoot every 3rd salesman , and the 2nd one just left.

[davester]

So, how many salesmen do you get? The only people we ever get at our door are people asking for charitable contributions. I'd say we get about one visit a month on average. About half of them I send on their way, the other half I give money to.

[kap]

Dave,
Each month we get at least two salespeople, one high school senior asking for donation to study abroad, and one charity. In the summer that number doubles! One would think we live in a middle class neighborhood. Ha!

[Racer X]

[quote Ken Sp.]We shoot every 3rd salesman , and the 2nd one just left.
you should leave the rotting corpses on the porch, with a warning sign about their transgression, otherwise, they will never learn.

[ADent]

We had a 8x11 sign with 2" high letters in color at eye height for a couple of years when we had small kids that still took naps that listed about 8 activities not wanted and at the bottom that said if you weren't delivering a package GO AWAY.

Still got a couple of knocks/doorbells - though quite a few of those would read the sign while waiting for the door to be answered and walk away very fast.

If your community has laws then the signs can carry force. In the city I grew up in they passed a law that all solicitors had to follow a couple of signs and mailed 2 to every resident in the city. It really cut down since about 50% of the houses had one or the other and the cops would respond most of the time.

[Jp!]

I posted a message on my door to the effect:

"I charge $50 per hour to listen to your sales pitch, 30 minute minimum charge. Knocking on the door constitutes your agreement to pay for my services"

The apartment management liked it so much they printed them up and it caught on.

There are state laws here that if you communicate you do not want solicitors, and they proceed to do it, they are legally trespassing and you can call the authorities.

Or, ...shoot them.

[kap]

Since we have lived in our current house for the past three years there is this charity that has been a yearly annoyance to us: its people keep coming to our house insisting on a donation just because they have made a deal with the city to paint house numbers on the curbs even if the we did not ask them specifically. We don't like to be 'harassed' into giving; we already have our own charities we like to donate when we can. We voiced our concern to the mayor of the city several times. No response whatsoever, thus far.

JP!,
We just might copy your idea and add: "Your payment will be our donation to your charity."

[Pam]

People just ignored the No Soliciting signs in our neighborhood, not just the ones who were working for so-called charities. I just use the peephole in my front door. If I don't know them, I don't answer.