Well that was nearly an expensive mistake..

[azekeil]

I've just got back from gavzilla's, where I spent an enjoyable hour eating his food and drinking his beer and playing on his home-rebuilt arcade machines (well cool!).

gavzilla saved my hard earned. I was under the influence from the evil Dr. Protectacoat. He wanted £5700 to coat just the front of my house - and that was with a 'Display Property' discount of £1900. How much? There was this 'referral scheme' he talked about as well. Arrived at 6pm, didn't leave until 10pm. Oh, and I had to buy tonight or the 'Display Property' scheme wouldn't be available to me. All this from a no-pressure salesman.

gavzilla talked sense into me and I turned him down.

That was my first and last experience with a salesman. No more shall enter my home; I shall feel free to choose my own products without someone 'helping' me.

Comments

[winterdreamer.livejournal.com]

slay them with electric death!! emperor palpatine had it right!

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

They're like vampires, if you invite them in you have no defence. Don't do it!

[racinghippo.livejournal.com]

Surely you knew this already from the way that they always tell their clients that "yes, the software can do $unfeasible_task, $hardToProgram_functionality and $physics_defying_property", leaving you with no budget and negative time to implement said.

What you must remember about them is that a) they are fundamentally greedy[1] and b) if they're trying the "buy now for Big Discount" on you that measn that if you took 5 minutes to look elsewhere you'd probably find a better deal, so ultimately you call the shots.
If one gets as far as the inside of our house and springs the "buy now for Big Discount" bolleaux on us, I usually suggest "how about I think about it for a while, give you a call, and you still give me a nice big discount - that way you get to make a sale and spare yourself the embarrasment of being turfed out of the house".

It's a bit subtle for most but every now and then you find one with enough working braincells to kowtow.


[1] With the obvious exception of any that happen to be on azekeil's friends list, of course

[dylan.livejournal.com]

I'll do it for £5600.

But you'll have to buy in the next hour to get that price