To put the Betterware catalogue...

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...out with a note saying "Do not put any more catalogues though my letterbox as I will put them straight into the recycling bin.", and then keep my word?

I just put them straight in the bin.

Along with those charity bags you're meant to fill up.

Any unsolicited mail is mine to do with what I please!

Definitely but put your address in too as it probably won't be noticed when collected and a note with no way of knowing which house it came from isn't much use.

Much better for you to do this and save wasting the agents time and save them annoying you too.

It makes me rage. They say "we will he back on Monday" or whatever. Then they don't come and pick it up. So it sits on my doorstep for days! Grrr. Yanbu

I once had to explain to the betterware man that I couldn't give him back his catalogue as my 11 month old had chewed it to mush.
He decided not to deliver any more

I do, then they stop for a while, then the franchise changes and off we go again. I do recycle unsolicited catalogues, it's the risk they take.

Better ware isn't a franchise. Anybody doing betterware can chose to operate in whatever area they like so it's not like Avon or similar in that respect.

Either way, it's in the recycling and if they want it, they can dig for it.

I always feel bad about it but I'm really disorganised and always end up losing the catalogue or forgetting to leave it out.

I have, and do, exactly what you have proposed.
It backfires when a new distributor starts up, but generally limits the number.
I do what has been suggested tho, and write 12, My street. No more. Rest will be recycled.

Just put a note on your door saying "no leaflets, bags or catalogues thank you". It works well for me.

The distributors have to pay for the catalogues though, don't they? They are only trying to make a living. So no I wouldn't put the catalogues in the bin, I agree with the suggestion of putting a note in with the book.

Definitely put a note in the book or politely tell the distributer you are never likely to order. Please be nice though. Some people seem to take some kind of strange delight in being rude to these people or deliberately binning their catalogues. They are only trying to make a living. It must be hard work walking the streets in this weather and I shouldn't think they make much. I admire people trying to make a few extra quid.

They get put under a stone on the doorstep here. It's not good if it rains. If they aren't collected by end of specified day, they are put in the bin.

I know (from MN!) that they have to pay for the catalogues, which is why I will warn them not to 'give' me any more.

Surely Betterware is verging on a scam? How much do they have to sell just to recoup the cost of the catalogue? Is it a pyramid scheme, and as soon as they farm the expense of catalogue distribution onto another sucker they start getting their cut?

Silver - what a shameful thing to say. Some poor bugger trying to earn a living selling stuff door to door to dreadful middle class snots like you. Can't people show a bit of respect to people just trying to earn a living. Just leave it outside if you're not interested. It's not hard.

I kept leaving notes out with my Betterware catalogues but they were ignored so they go straight in the recycle bin now.

I gave them plenty of opportunity to stop delivering so I don't feel guilty in the slightest.

I don't want anything from there and I don't want to be responsible for the catalogue

If they're trying to make an earnest living and can't afford to waste catalogues then they should knock on bloody doors and ask people if they want the catalogue rather than shoving them through every single letterbox ..

I'll keep binning them. Didn't ask for them, don't want them.

I put a note up. They still insist on putting them through my door, so now they get recycled.

My general answer when they bang on the door is "why would you put something through my letterbox when you want it back?"

It pisses me off more now because we live in a no cold calling area for the safety of mind of the elderly people who live around us. There are signs up to this effect on every sodding lamppost.

Bunny, actually a lot of people are out during the day.

And those of you binning the catalogues, I really don't see how putting it in the bin is less effort than putting it outside your front door?

'Silver - what a shameful thing to say. Some poor bugger trying to earn a living selling stuff door to door to dreadful middle class snots like you. Can't people show a bit of respect to people just trying to earn a living. Just leave it outside if you're not interested. It's not hard.'

Stop giving me shit I don't want, sacrificing trees, using bleaches and colourants and polluting the environment with junk mail to try and sell me plastic gubbins made from fossil fuels.
if they ignore my polite note asking them not to leave a catalogue, that's rude. No means no.

'Dreadful middle class snot'

Perhaps so, or I'd be yelling 'Take this fucking crap and stuff it up your arse' whilst swigging my special brew in my onesie.
Or releasing the hounds and the second gardener to drive the oiks away.
That's such a very English insult, isn't it?

Silver is right.

It's intrusive and bloody rude. It's unsolicited junk mail and it goes in the bin with the dominos flyers.

Ring the number on the little label. Takes less than a minute. They will never bother you again and if you're like me, will be cursing when you actually want to buy something you can't buy elsewhere and the website is fucked

Do you guffaw smugly to yourself as they dig in the recycling for it? Well done you.