Came across this the other day. Would they be wasting their time trying to chase any money from cold callers?

by 9DAN2

28 comments

  1. This is the laminated equivalent of putting a cone outside your house to stop people parking

  2. “by knocking on this door….” “please ring the bell” I’ve spotted an obvious loophole and am on my way to read them the King James Bible and Qur’an in full.

  4. This has about as much power as those facebook statuses your Gran shares warning everyone that she does not opt in to giving Facebook permission to share her data

    as Facebook shares her data

  5. If I was a cold calling I’d ring the bell as instructed on the label, thereby not entering into the contract as it specifies knocking on the door.

    Then run away just to annoy them.

  6. These do work in that they telegraph that the owner is a nutter and preaching/selling/delivering to them will be a waste of time.

  7. It’s easier to just connect a car battery to the knocker

  8. Well, with my GCSE in Law this looks like a valid contract. They’re offering their service of listening to your pitch in return for a monetary fee. I’d love to see them actually pursue this (through small claims unless the door knocker was really long winded), I’ll pay for my own popcorn…

  9. I know if Im cold calling I’m not even going to bother with this do, the sign does what it’s supposed to do

  10. I don’t know why, but this post reminded me of the black books episode where he invites the Jevohas Witnesses in.

  11. I’ve delivered to a neighbour with a very similar sign. The person said he’s a total wanker and just does it so he can argue. I’d always thought if you was to play knock knock ginger when you was a kid and he caught you would it be classed as child labour.

  12. Take £10k. Make them listen to me talk for 16 hours.

  13. If the person paid then you would be bound to listen for the duration you paid for…

    If I had cash to burn I could pay for an hour up front and make up a rambling lecture just for the sheer fun of it.

    Hell yes.

  14. For when ‘No thank you’ isn’t in your vocabulary and you’re an argumentative tosser constantly spoiling for a fight.

    Great, that’s my uncle’s Christmas present sorted.

  15. Does this mean OP is a door to door salesman or is this actually OPs house wanting validation

  17. The solution is simple, follow the polite instructions to ring the bell and then you can safely avoid the one aimed at door knockers.

  18. I’ll go out on a limb and say its probably not a legally enforceable contact.

  20. Do they get a refund if they’re successful in the salea pitch?

  21. From an ex door to door sales person we just wouldn’t bother. Any house that has a home made sign is pretty much left alone unless it’s old or can’t be read.

    The stickers don’t deter people though as some people leave them up when they move in or forget they are there

  22. Looks enforceable to me..offer: listen to the pitch, acceptance: knock on the door, consideration: £’s
    Maybe repost on uklegal?

  26. All I have to do is answer the door and they’ll never come back again

  27. These signs do work as any cold caller instantly knows some absolute whopper lives there who will be wasting their time arguing as soon as they open the door.

  28. It will help. Not because it’s an enforceable contract but because the person about to knock will think bloody nutter.

    If the householder does think it’s true then I can imagine they are also proponents of that Magna carter don’t need to pay your bills shenanigans.

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