To think door to door sales/charity need to be banned?

[Coliolioioi]

I just witnessed an elderly neighbour being bullied into signing up with an energy company as they could charge less than her current one. She clearly wasn’t interested but they wouldn’t take no for an answer. DH had to step in and tell them to leave as she was getting upset.
It got me thinking how this shouldn’t be allowed anymore, so many people tricked into signing up for things or being begged for charity donations they cannot afford. It’s essentially bullying and manipulation at your own house by total strangers.
The same for being hounded in shopping centres by sales reps asking for a minute of your time and don’t you care about xyz, and leaflets shoved in your face.
Im not against charity btw, I donate to a cancer and a children charity each month, but I chose to do that and signed up myself. The majority of people know how to do these things online these days.
If a face to face sales/charity set up is something you want shouldn’t it be an appointment you ask for rather than unannounced visits?
Surely it’s time to scrap this harassment?

You can get adhesive signs specifying "No cold callers". Your neighbour could just point to it and shut the door on them?
eg. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adhesive-Labels-CALLING-Waterproof-STICKERS/dp/B0793353DD

Please complain to the charity about this. That behaviour isn't acceptable and the Charity will take action.

But don't ban it.

Unless you want less hospice places, less cancer nurses, less support for homeless people and victims of domestic violence, less animals rescued etc.

Charities need to raise funds and the government have just wiped out £1.4 billion from charities through the budget and NI rises.

YANBU, it's harassing behaviour.

YANBU they don't work directly for the charity. Some already have the gift of the gab and would be able to sell but they also receive training on how to get round people.

We had a very similar situation to yours with my sister's neighbour. My sister was quite shaken when she intervened to help her neighbour as they wouldn't leave. I came round to my mums to find one of them on the sofa. Mum didn't have a clue what she was doing, just thought it was nice young man and was smiling and following his instructions.

I had one the other day for the modern milkman, others said he was friendly but he was very pushy and had a way of talking and getting you to do things without you being able to say he was rude. He said 'go get your phone and we'll do it together'. I changed my mind and he tried to get me to hand over my phone to make sure I'd taken the code he gave me out. I'm not old but I think he thought I was. I have a nephew who joined one of these for a while, he could talk his way round anything and has skin like a rhino. If there was a sign at the door he would ignore it and when challenged would say he was dyslexic and couldn't read it.