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To feel v guilty that have binned the betterware catalogue

47 replies

grizzabellia · 08/11/2013 18:06

Just that really. We get such a lot of junk mail it all goes straight in the bin but tonight some bloke just turned up to collect it. He just looked resigned when I told him. Have just googled and realised reps have to pay for these catalogues! Now feeling like a heartless bitch as must be a thankless and ill paying job - but may just be pregnancy hormones! Please someone tell me he will be ok really and someone will have bought something from his blinking catalogue!

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AliceinWinterWonderland · 08/11/2013 19:59

We have a sign on the door and a Kleenez person still persisted in putting the books through the door. I finally just binned it. He came to the door to collect it a few days later and was very aggressive and pushy and I finally closed the door in his face and locked it.

I emailed their offices and was told that they can put their books through doors with "no soliticing" type signs unless the signs specifically say "no catalogues" on them as technically they're not selling, they're just advising people what products are available.

mumofweeboys · 08/11/2013 20:00

I just stick it back on the door step and leave it there (as ours come in little plastic bags) as the poor bloke/ women is just trying to make some money.

Preciousbane · 08/11/2013 20:20

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SueDoku · 08/11/2013 20:20

New Betterware lady came round a couple of months back to ask whether we still wanted the catalogue - I said no gratefully --- and have since had two further copies through the door.... Grrrrrr

yetanotheranyfucker · 08/11/2013 20:26

Do not feel guilty. I don't get them anymore since I moved, but at a previous house I ran after the woman the first time I got them and asked her to please not deliver them to me, but they continued and got upset when I threw them away. It's just manipulative.

mrspremise · 08/11/2013 20:26

Our Betterware man had the wonderful name 'Henk Slotboom' Just FYI....

KerwhizzedMyself · 08/11/2013 20:46

I also found that asking them (three different Avon ladies over time, asked each one twice) didn't stop the catalogues coming. Leaving one out in the rain did each time. They seem to "remember" when it costs them money.

NumptyNameChange · 08/11/2013 20:59

don't feel guilty. it's unsolicited sales material shoved through the door without your request with an entitled assumption that you'll look after said sales material and return it to them.

i try to catch anyone stuffing things through my door if i'm in and tell them not to bother. after one bloody aggressive woman got shitty with me for not being able to find where i'd put one of these catalogues they now go in the recycling like all the other junk mail.

i might 'feel sorry' for people selling windows but i'm not opening the door to them.

NumptyNameChange · 08/11/2013 21:01

aside from which i now have a little dog that loves to shred her way into plastic wrapped catalogues. sees them as a challenge or something. they'd be in no fit state to return.

SarahAndFuck · 08/11/2013 21:34

I usually put the first catalogue back out with a note saying thanks but we don't want to receive any more.

If another one comes I put it out with a slightly more to the point note about not being interested.

If a third one comes it goes in the bin.

I would buy anything from a man named Henk Slotboom.

starfishmummy · 08/11/2013 21:48

We just had an annoyed Avon Lady because we had thrown the catalogue out. I told her that if she wrote on it that she was coming back on a certain day then she should do so and not several days after that. I did say that it had only gone in the recycling that morning so she was welcome to rummage around for it. Strangely she didn't bother!

silverten · 08/11/2013 22:22

I put every single catalogue straight back outside my door the day it arrives. They are in plastic bags.

They never, ever get collected.

Then after about a fortnight they go in the recycling.

I don't understand why the reps do this...

thenightsky · 08/11/2013 22:25

I too put all catalogues back outside in plastic bags the day after they arrive.

Nobody ever bothers to collect them.

They turn soggy and I bin them.

MidniteScribbler · 08/11/2013 23:37

I write a note the first time they are dumped delivered asking them not to be delivered again. After that, they go in the bin.

BreconBeBuggered · 09/11/2013 00:21

I post mine straight back through the letterbox onto the doorstep, otherwise I forget I've had them and get the guilt when they come back for them. I know there are several local women with Avon rounds, so telling one not to leave me a catalogue wouldn't necessarily mean not getting any more. DH puts any catalogues straight into the recycling bin, so it's pot luck whether the poor sods get them back at all.

Pogosticks · 09/11/2013 00:25

I leave them outside. Then no one collects them. The other day found a new better ware catalogue had been delivered despite old one on doorstep not collected.
So chucked both in recycling.

Salmotrutta · 09/11/2013 00:29

Betterware did a flaming brilliant glass cleaner.

It was utterly magic.

The Betterware people don't deliver round here anymore

Salmotrutta · 09/11/2013 00:30

I don't like Kleeneze.

I want a new Betterware person.

reelingintheyears · 09/11/2013 01:46

Just someone trying to make a living, I leave them by the front door.

Sometimes it's different people putting them through your door, it's nice to be nice.

froubylou · 09/11/2013 01:57

I almost made an avon lady cry a couple of months ago. She knocked on the door at just gone 9pm to introduce herself and leave me a book.

We were all in bed at the time. Just because it was still light doesn't mean that dp doesn't have to get up for work and anything after 8pm is a bloody cheek if you ask me.

Anything coming through my door goes in the bin. I don't have anywhere to leave it and hate cold callers at my door.

ILoveNoodles · 09/11/2013 02:34

They don't bloody listen round here.
Twice I have asked the betteware man not to put one through our door as I don't buy from them.
Twice I have left a note asking the same. The second note I stayed very clearly any more would go in the bin. I watched him pick up the book read my note and go.
I have since binned two of his books. I don't get it. Either;
He doesn't get it.
He has money to waste.
He is trying to play some weird power struggle game.
I just want him to leave me alone.

Gobbolinothewitchscat · 09/11/2013 04:48

I bin any catalogues like this straight away

Used to leave them in the storm porch but it took
ages for them to be picked up and I don't see why I'm obliged to have junk mail cluttering up my porch

Last straw was a few weeks ago when I came out of the house, 7 months pregnant, carrying 10 month old DS to slip on one of the blighters that had been left in the porch in a plastic bag (not by us - by rep) as I couldn't see where I was going very well and assumed that area was clear as we had left it

Fortunately it was the weekend and DH was there to catch DS and me as I fell backwards but it could have been a nasty fall

DH now bins every single one we get - about one a week from Avon etc as he's decided it's safer and too bad for the reps!

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