They call themselves marketing executives

Friday, February 13, 2004

One annoyance of working from home is having to answer the door every few hours, only to find a salesman outside. Does it help to have a “salesmen not welcome” sign on the gate? Do they actually acknowledge such signs?

irq2 — Feb 13, 2004 4:10:13 AM — # ↩

Why not lock the gate? That way, he/she will (hopefully) think no one's home.
jessyleen — Feb 13, 2004 4:29:41 AM — # ↩

Do they actually acknowledge such signs?

If you have a dog handy to endorse it!!
- contentedbloke — Feb 13, 2004 5:06:51 AM — # ↩
  
  Actually, just a sign board is enough!
  
  Atleast enough to scare me away!
hserus — Feb 13, 2004 4:35:03 AM — # ↩

There's this ferocious street dog that I keep feeding all sorts of stuff, from table scraps to (on more than one occasion) cream biscuits

He is good enough (and big enough, and vocal enough) to keep the assorted salesmen, beggars etc from trying to barge in on me.
- ravi — Feb 13, 2004 6:57:32 AM — # ↩
  
  Re:
  Hserus, you should paste your ~/.signature file on your door, along with a text-entry box that reads, "Enter email address to open door" ...
  - hserus — Feb 13, 2004 7:03:15 AM — # ↩
    
    Re:
    Nah. Too much effort. The dog's enough for that.
rileen — Feb 13, 2004 10:40:49 AM — # ↩

It'd be great if somebody invented a 'salesperson repellent', and a guy came knocking on your door, trying to sell it :-P !!

Thankless jobs though, most of them - must be disheartening to feel so unwelcome all the time.
tsk1979 — Feb 14, 2004 6:18:21 AM — # ↩

Use this....
Salesman will be shot dead and hung by the lamppost

I think after this board they should not come
brainz — Feb 14, 2004 1:25:54 PM — # ↩

You can always check from upstairs balcony before going down to open the door right?