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Original poster

To think I have alot more to worry about than a sodding kleanezee booklet.

111 replies

McNewPants2013 · 21/08/2013 21:39

I have a lot to do in the day, I wake up at 5am for work start at 7am till 3pm. Then it the usual housework dinner spending time with DC and DH.

I tend to take them out everyday, so normally home for 6:30ish then it bedtime routine ect.

Just had a knock on the door waking DD up all for a sodding kleanezee booklet ( she said this is the 4th time she has called)

Aibu to think you don't knock people door this time of night.

Hope DD goes back to sleep soon.

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houseofpain · 21/08/2013 21:57

The timing of this thread is perfect. I left a post-it note on the catalogue a couple of days ago saying 'Please don't leave this again' - the reason being I had binned one in the past and they got really upset about it. Later found the same post-it with 'Fuck you then' written on it and stuck on my door. I find it so intrusive and don't know whether worth complaining about.

Thesimplethings · 21/08/2013 21:57

As far as I know they lose money for uncollected books. Just stick back out on the doorstep if you don't want it. Problem solved! They are only trying to earn a living.

Btw I feel the rage when uninvited people bang on my door when I've just got dc to sleep.

LadyMilfordHaven · 21/08/2013 21:57

i leave on the doorstep

EvieanneVolvic · 21/08/2013 21:58

140 quid for me to traipse around in the fucking rain

Is that what you paid or is it what they paid you Marceline? I have a horrid feeling it may have been the former in which case I feel your pain but I guess you could regard it as £140's worth of experience.

AnneEyhtMeyer · 21/08/2013 21:58

I throw them in the bin because I have left them out before and they have sat there for days. I don't want rubbish sitting on my doorstep for days. It is unsightly.

If the products were any good they would be available in real shops and the parent company wouldn't make its money by charging its salespeople to sell them.

specialsubject · 21/08/2013 21:59

trouble with the 'leave it on the doorstep' concept is that it shouts 'no-one at home, burgle us'.

EvieanneVolvic · 21/08/2013 22:00

My jaw is on the floor house. However I wouldn't complain because quite literally they know where you live! Just a enjoy the knowledge that I think you are a superior kind of being!

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 21/08/2013 22:00

What Nonnamai said. I'm sure trekking the streets 9.30 at night in the hope of making a pittance is her first choice of entertainment. I'm more than certain she'd rather be at home supping a brew and seeing to her babies.

ivykaty44 · 21/08/2013 22:02

I have a note on the door

Anything posted in this letter box not addressed to me by name goes into the bin.

EvieanneVolvic · 21/08/2013 22:02

Nonnamai and Backofmycar you are good people, except that I rather suspect the net result is they would be better off financially if they did stay at home.

feelingood · 21/08/2013 22:03

You can tell they want to say How dare you.... and Im always dying to say Well I didn't ask you to put the bloody thing through the door, now do one and don't bother me with your tat again.

Its usually a polite oh sorry its been misplaced

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McNewPants2013 · 21/08/2013 22:04

It had her address on the form and as its on the way to where i need to go friday I would have posted it back to her.

But I suppose it must be a desperate to having to resort to knocking doors at 9:30

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Changebagsandgladrags · 21/08/2013 22:04

Ours sat on our doorstep for two weeks until I binned it. She can fuck right off.

Now this will split you.

I once did order from Kleeneze or whatever the other one is called. The actual product, sealing clips for bags, was rubbish and some other tat. The man delivered at 10pm which annoyed me immensely and needed cash on the spot. Paid up.

Next morning left the house at 6am to find a fiver on the doorstep.

Would you root through the recycling to find his address or pocket the fiver? And you can guess what I did...

PatFenis · 21/08/2013 22:06

I don't understand why they don't knock on your door and ask if you would like a catalogue in the first place, at least then you could decline them in the first place.
I am sick of finding Kleeneeze/Avon catalogues on my doormat ....and then get arsey looks when the person turns up to collect them and discover you have no intention of placing an order ...just weird!

fuckwittery · 21/08/2013 22:07

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McNewPants2013 · 21/08/2013 22:09

If I was doing that sort of work, I would have a Facebook page and put leaflets through the door saying if you or someone you know would like a booklet then text your address to xxxxxxx and I would be happy to post a booklet.

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pianodoodle · 21/08/2013 22:15

I left mine out the day they said they were picking it up. It sat there for days so I binned it.

Every other day after that I get a note through the door saying he has been and it wasn't set out!

EhricLovesTeamQhuay · 21/08/2013 22:17

It seems like such an unlikely way to make a living. Who actually orders from them? I resent them being put through my door but I do just leave them on the doorstep straight away.

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 21/08/2013 22:26

Exactly McNew. It just reminds me of everything my mum had to do when we were kids. Posting leaflets, catalogues, business cards, she even used to sit up til the early hours making fiddly eye straining items like glass cutters or sewing labels into stuff. One time in the 80's I remember her having to post some surveys and then go back and pick them up a week later. (Similar to the census but for our local council). She'd come back upset as people were so rude to her. It seems that standing at someone elses front door gives them free reign to be nasty pricks if they see fit. Just purchase of those stickers that tells people not to post leaflets or knock after a certain time. I have one and it works.

MarcelineTheVampireQueen · 21/08/2013 22:31

Oh I put myself in hock to pay THEM Volvic idiot that I am!!

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McNewPants2013 · 21/08/2013 22:34

I wasn't rude to her, just got the booklet and came here to rant lol

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YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 21/08/2013 22:41

Not saying you were rude. Just reminded me of what my mum did to put food on the table. Anyway 9.30 is too late to knock on I just don't think the woman doing the collecting would have been happy about that herself but sometimes needs must.

IceCup · 21/08/2013 22:46

I can't bear to touch catalogues that have obviously done the circuit of other customers first. Just keep imagining someone else flicking through it whilst on the loo before giving it back to Kleeneazy. Boak!

Sparklingbrook · 21/08/2013 22:51

Ooh I feel exactly the same Ice, Pre-loved Kleeneze catalogues. Bleurgh,

LazyMonkeyButler · 21/08/2013 23:03

YABU. I used to do Avon, once upon a time. Absolutely soul destroying it was.

To be fair, I always called between 6.30pm & 7.30pm to collect brochures BUT how hard is it to put the book back on your doorstep if you are not interested!? Certainly no harder than lifting the bin lid to throw it away!

I'd imagine the reason your Kleeneze rep is so annoyed at losing a book is because he has about 20 (which he will have paid for) to cover about 120 houses! If you are in the first 'drop' and bin it, that's one less book for the next 'drop'.

I never buy anything from Kleeneze either, but I do always just put the book back outside. Do you really think the rep wants to be knocking on your door? No, they would much rather just pick the book up from your doorstep/behind the plantpot etc.

They are just trying to make a living. Good for you you've never been in that position.