Dealing with chuggers at the front door

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I know the cost of living crisis is beginning to bite but it is annoying that charities are now sending people door to door to try and pressure people into direct debits so I have come up with a solution, tell them you already have one. They have no where to go and you aren’t being rude. How do you deal with them?

I do that too. Tell them I don't give a shit about whatever they're crapping on about, it's not like they're doing it because they care either, it's just a job

It’s very very simple
“No thank you” and shut the door

I just say no thanks and shut the door usually before they’ve even started talking .

I don’t care about whatever company they’re plugging, whatever it is. I have chosen charities I actually care about, and donate to them only. By very definition the chuggers can’t pretend to care about the company either, since they’re not volunteering and are getting £10+ph.

Tell them you've got the kids in the bath. Always gets shot of them. Saying you're midway through breastfeeding also sends them off :)

I can't get that mad at them, charities must be desperate for funds given the economic climate, I imagine you'd only take a job as a chugger if you were also desperate. No need to be mean to them.

That's downright manipulative.

One year I donated to a children's charity and blooming wished I'd done it anonymously.

Was absolutely bombarded with ''Human'' Charities begging for money, some of which were very upsetting.

My MIL had the same.

Hassled desperately by animal charities via post and it became too much.

These charities sell on details to other charities.

Cash in a box, from now on...No more bank details with address.

One recently asked me if I wanted to support ill children in hospital.

I said 'of course, I'd like to but as I can't even to pay all of my electric bill at the end of the month, they will have to wait.'

Told him, politely, not to bother the lady next door as she'd just had an operation and sent him on his way.

He didn't seem to mind.

when I said I wasn't interested asked me "but don't your care about children dying?"

I wonder if this ever works as a sales technique? presumably they guilt enough people into giving with that line.

Literally just had a chugger at the front door. I only opened the door because it looked like an Amazon delivery driver through the frosted glass. Before he had chance to say anything I said I was too busy to talk. He asked if I "was working?" I said "no I've got a two year old in the living room" he then began his charm offensive regardless about how I 'didn't look old enough to have children" 🙄I just cut him off and said "sorry, I have to get back" and shut the door. I'm sure the £9 odd he's getting an hour will ease the pain of rejection a little.

The other thing I do, if someone unexpected knocks on the door, is to open the living room window to speak to them rather than the front door. It's easier to get away.

I would take their badge name/number and report them to their employer. It's an appalling technique to use.

Just don't answer the door if not expecting anyone!

I just tell them I don't give my bank details at the door.
There's no answer to that.

'Sorry, I don't do charity at the door. And please don't disturb the neighbours, they're elderly and ill'

I say I don't do business on the doorstep. As for the guilt line, Diabetes UK chugger said he hoped I got diabetes after I refused to donate. I made a formal complaint.

If someone chugging for a cancer charity tried that on me they'd be lucky to escape, given the swathes that cancer has cut through my family. I did read in another thread that someone had complained to a charity about that line being used and was told that they were OK with it, which is bloody disgraceful.

I point to the no cold callers sign or say no thanks and swiftly shut the door on them, I don't want to get into a Convo with them.

So many folk on this thread just seem to delight at an opportunity to be rude to someone, usually a young person, doing a thankless hard job.

Never had an issue with people being rude to me. I just explain this isn’t a good time or that I already give to the charities I’m interested in and generally they go on their way.

Someone used that line on me and said "don't you care about people with cancer". Very upsetting given our family circumstances - I put in a complaint.

I always open the door to JWs and say "thankyou for thinking of me, but no thankyou". very brisk and sweet

Chuggers get "I would never sign up to anything ever on the doorstep/in the street. Whatever your cause".

I give to Trussell Trust, MIND, Amnesty and Shelter, foodbanks and local appeals. I have thought carefully about who I give to, how I want to give and I can't afford any more.

If I can tell before opening the door that they're chuggers, from their brightly coloured bibs then I ignore them. Sometimes I mistake them for the amazon delivery guy, and say no thanks, ignore anything they say and close the door quickly.

I just tell them that the house owner is away, and that I'm just the dog sitter. Always works.

I have done the same when asked "don't you care about the <<insert worthy cause here>>?", but think in future I will just say to the person that I think it's absolutely outrageous someone who is cold calling my fucking house is then trying to emotionally manipulate ME!

I did have one who did a failed charm offensive which I think was trying to say I was far too young to own a house. Unfortunately for him he started with something like "is your dad/man of the house here" and I went off on a rant about how it was pathetic to assume a women in her 20s couldn't afford to own a home in her own right. He was so off guard he eventually backed away and apologetically legged it!

I tell them I haven't got time. If they don't move away I shut the door on them. I rarely get charity people knocking, it's usually people asking what broadband and energy company I'm with. They're so rude.

I definitely don't delight in being rude to people, even cold callers. But I'm not going to waste my time and their's by letting them give their full sales pitch when I have absolutely no intention of donating.

'Thank you but I don't undertake any business on my doorstep.'

Polite but firm.

I can't stand it when they try flattery. I remember one bloke on the street telling me I was looking good when I knew I was haggard as fuck after a sleepless night with the kids. Don't think I even responded as it would have been swearing 🤬