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To not give the betterware catalogue back?

58 replies

msrisotto · 07/08/2014 21:08

I have a sticker on my door saying no circulars, no newspapers, no leaflets, addressed mail only. I bin everything else and it annoys me that the catalogue distributer wilfully ignored my sign.

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KingJoffreysBloodshotEye · 07/08/2014 21:10

Nah, chuck it.

Are you a catalogue storage facility?

mrscog · 07/08/2014 21:11

YANBU, I bloody hate those things, and you've even warned them not to do it. Just pop it in the recycling!

Janethegirl · 07/08/2014 21:12

I leave all such things on my doorstep and if it's still there the following week it goes in the bin. However that doesn't stop some repeatedly leaving catalogues. If they then ask for its return, I just look at them and say all unsolicited materials are binned. Not that that necessarily is an end to it.

GiveTwoSheets · 07/08/2014 21:13

Be prepared for them to bash the door down trying to get the fucking catalogue back. I've told them many off times not to deliver and it will go straight in recycle bin.

ddubsgirl77 · 07/08/2014 21:14

Yes asbthey make you pay for those books some poor sod trying to earn a few quid

SomeSortOfDeliciousBiscuit · 07/08/2014 21:16

Some poor sod trying to earn a few quid, I have sympathy for. Some sod who ignores the sign and posts it anyway? No sympathy from me. Bin it.

KingJoffreysBloodshotEye · 07/08/2014 21:17

How is shoving a catalogue through someone's door and then collecting it a few days later earning a few quid?

Knock, ask if they'd like one and then hand it over.

Definitely don't shove it through a door marked with a sticker politely requesting no crap gets shoved through it.

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FlipFlopWaddle · 07/08/2014 21:17

YANBU at all...years ago our local betterware agent got really arsey when I denied ever having his crappy catalogue, he practically called me a liar Hmm. A few months ago he knocked on the door to ask for it in the middle of the bedtime chaos and I said I wasn't sure where it was so he walked past me uninvited and looked around my hall! Angry The last time I just left the bloody thing on the outside windowsill, it got soaked so hopefully he got the message. It's full of crap anyway!

Janethegirl · 07/08/2014 21:18

In my case, the catalogues are on the doorstep for at least a week, their problem not mine.....

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 07/08/2014 21:19

I was about to say YABU but as you have a sign up warning people not to post those things then too bad though I would be tempted to return it with IF YOU POST AGAIN IT WILL BE BINNED on the order form.

Nomama · 07/08/2014 21:20

We've just moved into civilisation and have found this a bit weird.

Where we were anyone with a catalogue would tap on your door and tell you they were putting an order in (bear in mind we could not see most neighbours, most lived 1+ miles away) they'd leave the catalogue overnight, collect it and take to the next person on their route.

Here, I have had 3 since we moved in. I have left all 3 outside on the steps, with a no thank you note. I have just had the next one left, on the steps not put through the letterbox... I was in... I saw her and smiled, she could have stopped and spoken to me.

I'm not going to like this civilisation, am I?

KiKiFrance · 07/08/2014 21:22

FlipFlop that's awful! I hope you told him to get the hell out of your house!

Lally112 · 07/08/2014 21:22

My one and only house dog ate one once, they never put another through my door when I put it out again shredded and partially digested.

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msrisotto · 07/08/2014 21:28

It makes me disproportionately annoyed I tell you! I feel like the bad guy if i bin it but they ignored the feckin sign and I don't want to litter my doorstep because they're knobs.

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WallyBantersJunkBox · 07/08/2014 21:30

I've also had the Betterware agent get arsey on my doorstep and refuse to believe I didn't have the catalogue. I was on holiday so lord knows what happened to it, then I got another snarky comment - how was she supposed to know I was on holiday?

Obviously I should leave a note on my door informing the Betterware person and all the criminals of the area of my daily whereabouts.

I used to dread seeing that plastic bag propped up on the door.

ravenAK · 07/08/2014 21:32

First time it's left, I write 'no thanks - please remove us from list' on a sticker, attach, & try to remember to leave out on appropriate day. Because some poor sod has been suckered into doing it & there but for the grace etc...

After that I just whack it in the recycling. Our recycling is fortnightly, so they'd have to be pretty unlucky not to have the opportunity to fish it out.

I got tutted at by a lass a few days ago because I happened to be arriving home as she was trying to post a catalogue through my door, & handed it straight back to her with a smile & a 'sorry, we really aren't interested'.

I imagine she'd been sold the idea of 'building a business' sufficiently effectively that she was blind to the reality of people just, well, not wanting to buy crap they could easily purchase from B&M Bargains without the faff of filling in a form & waiting a week for it.

Nasty business which preys on the vulnerable.

TattyDevine · 07/08/2014 21:38

I have a really clear sign now so anyone who is arrogant enough to ignore it can expect for me to bin them.

Its a constant onslaught of junk mail, junk email, annoying phonecalls and if you don't fight it then it will get worse.

I might be a cow bearing in mind that they ask for it back but I ASKED FIRST for them not to give it to me in the first bloody place.

So I do just recycle them, I can't be doing with it. My junk has significantly reduced since putting the sign up, if some can go with it those who don't will loose their sodding catalogue. Does me in. And Bettaware is full of weird compression bandages and egg slicers and mothballs and fake-spanx. Bah.

0pheliaBalls · 07/08/2014 21:38

YANBU. They used to annoy the shit out of me. Twelve years ago moved into a second floor flat with secure entry system and I haven't had one since, it's beautiful Grin

FlipFlopWaddle · 07/08/2014 21:40

To be honest I was so shocked so I didn't say anything! I wasn't really in the right frame of mind because I was trying to sort the dds out...he didn't hang around for long and I haven't seen him since, I just left the last one out as I said and he hasn't left another.

MidniteScribbler · 07/08/2014 22:52

If it's the first time I get one from a particular distributor, I leave a polite please do not leave catalogs again note and put them back out. Second time gets a 'I've already asked that you not leave catalogs on our doorstep, any future catalogs will be treated as unsolicited mail and disposed of'. Third time goes in the bin. I already have an 'Australia Post mail' only sign on my mailbox, why do they think that just because they wander past the mailbox to the front door before dumping it that I'm interested?

AntoinetteCosway · 07/08/2014 23:05

I get really pissed off with charity collection bags being put through my door. I have never, ever filled one so why do they arrive like clockwork, weekly?! I'm not giving clothes or whatever to a random who claims to work for X charity without proof that they do indeed go to charity and I'd rather pick the charity I'm supporting at any rate. They are always 'charities' I've never heard of. They are sneaky fuckers though and I never manage to catch them to say no, I don't want your bloody bag. I just end up using them as rubbish bags.

Hurr1cane · 08/08/2014 12:07

I have one of those signs because if I get post at an usually time, I can't get to it first, and my DS likes to eat plastic so those bloody charity bags lying there without me being aware are a death trap.

Everyone ignores it though.

Once I was taking DS to school and he was having a meltdown. He was trying to take his entire massive box of toys into the car to take with him. He was stood pulling it and Screaming and hitting himself while I was stood holding it, getting bashed in the knees by it while saying "DS choose one, choose one DS"

A man then came up my drive and tried to hand me a charity bag! Shock

I said no thanks and carried on trying to sort out my DS, he then promptly dropped to the floor having a seizure and I sat holding his head. I looked up and the man was still stood there holding the fucking bag out to me. I said "no!" And carried on looking at DS who had now come out of his seizure and was sobbing and coming in and out f consciousness.

I look up again and he pushes the bag at my hand that it holding DSs head saying "for you I'm in a rush"

I then may have told him to fuck right off. so he threw it at me.

WTF?

I've never had anyone else be that rude when I've said no. But that was just.... What?

Hurr1cane · 08/08/2014 12:11

I also have a sign up that says no cold callers, religious callers or solicitors.

I had one man knock on trying to sell me some sort of government reduced boiler. I told him we didn't accept cold callers and pointed to the sign. He said "it's not illegal" and I said "well it really upsets my disabled DS so can you leave please?" He then stepped into my house, smoking his cig and said in a really threatening way "I'm just trying to help you"

So I said

"Right! Who do you work for and what is your name?"

He looked shocked and backed off up the drive so I said

"I'm serious and if you don't tell me I'll find out of another neighbour that you have hounded"

He left without knocking on another door. That was quite scary though. I live in an area with a lt of vulnerable people who that would have probably worked on Hmm

maddy68 · 08/08/2014 12:12

My son did this for a while. It is soul destroying work. They have to pay for the brochures They are just trying to do a job. Just leave it on the step with a note not to leave again. Some people are so horrible for no good reason.

DownByTheRiverside · 08/08/2014 12:14

I leave the first one out with a note, politely telling them not to leave another and that the next one will be recycled.
Then it's up to the distributer.
I do have a notice on the door as well.

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