Snookered

[McD]

Good gracious, I get suckered into EVERYTHING. Some guy just knocked on my door wanting to sell me some kind of cleaner that is supposedly awesome and it goes to benefit inner city school kids.

2 bottles=75$.

HOW STUPID AM I? Luckily for me, he is coming back to swap out a bottle for the one I preferred and I'm going to tell him to cancel it and give me my money back. The receipt says I have 3 days to cancel.

Uck..

[Lady_V]

I hope he comes back.

I don't think I could hand over $75 to anyone knocking on my door...

The neighborhood kids don't even bother knocking... "NO... don't go there, she's mean... she never buys anything unless it's chocolate". I have them trained

All joking aside, some 'sales people' can weave a beautiful tale that you can almost see the strings pulling at your heart... and your wallet.

[McD]

I wrote a check so I can always put a stop-pay on it.

The demos were stinkin' awesome, which is why I fell for it, but good golly I am so bad about givin' money to just about anyone.

[Lady_V]

good golly I am so bad about givin' money to just about anyone.

Right now, there is a woman going without chocolate... she has to walk uphill, both ways, in a snow storm, with no shoes... just to return cans to pay for one candy bar. Donate today to put an end to this growing tragedy!

[walker24]

The cleaner isn't Personal Touch is it? About two years ago a guy came by selling that. I don't think it was $75 though. At least you have an out and can return it.

[McD]

IT was called advanage. I tried it and about had an asthma attack.

Got my check back BUT--my neighbor noticed the guys engaging in some suscipicious behavior--scoping out houses, walking around the back, etc. When my neighbor came out to talk to me when they were giving me my money back, they copped attitude with him, and as they drove away, they drove up into his yard.

They have driven back by the house a time or two. I'm going to sleep downstairs with a light on and my revolver.

[beks37]

I'm glad you got your money back. But that sounds scary that they are scoping out houses and such.

[monkeywrangler71]

Need. Chocolate.

[DJ1972]

Glad you got your money back. I once bought some steaks ($200) from a guy with a freezer in the back of his truck. The old..."We supply the local restaraunts and have some overstock for a good price" routine. I fell for it, DH 'bout had a stroke! A month later the guy came back to try again.....DH told him to leave, he kept talking, so DH chased him down the sidewalk, lol.

[itsahumanzoo]

Lady V if you've got a CVS, I know a way you could get 10+ free king size Hershey chocolate bars. Just say the word and I'll spill the beans. I have 30 delish bars of regular, dark, and chocolate with almonds in my stockpile right now.

Okay, I'm pregnant. Spill the beans pleeeeeeease.

[MoonMommy]

Oh gal, I feel your pain. I am such a sucker as well, to combat it, I just never open the door. Especially if it is a kid selling something. UGH. I have such a hard time saying no.

Glad you got your money back. I would be a bit freaked out by their behavior, but maybe the fact that your neighbor was a bit suspicious will keep any bad behavior far away from you.

[itsahumanzoo]

I'll hand over the chocolate so nobody gets hurt. It is one of those CVS deals that involves coupons and extra bucks, so a little complicated. Here goes...you need tear pad coupons for $1/2 king size Hershey bars...I'd bet they are pretty pricey on ebay right now. But, around here they are all over the convenience stores. I have seen them several different times in diff. places. To get 10 bars free you would need 5 of these coupons and combined with a .99 sale, a $1 ECB and the tearpad coupons they are free. Clear as mud? LOL

I will have to post back to confirm if the current price is still .99...but everything else supposedly works through the end of October. You buy 2 king size bars which cost $1.98 and use 1 coupon for $1 off...so you will pay .98 and CVS will give you back $1 off your next purchase. Take it right back in there and buy 2 more chocolate bars paying with the $1 CVS coupon and the $1 manufacturer coupon...you will not owe them anything. You can continue repeating this transaction until you have 10 total bars. If you find a stash of coupons like I did and have access to your mom's or friends or husbands, etc card you could get 10 per card you use.

Is there anyway I can bribe you to send me some of those tear pad coupons? I will even send you an SASE. :begs:

[McD]

It is a little disturbing that they were snooping around back and driving through the neighbor's yard.

We live way out in the country...but that is the sort of thing I would consider calling the non-emergency number for the sheriff about. In our area, they would just have the guy on duty nearest us drive around the block a few times during his regular route to maybe scare off anyone with bad intentions. But, then crime is so low where we live anyway, so they would otherwise have nothing much to do.

Neighbor called the cops earlier on them when he noticed them snooping. Hubby is currently going thru the police academy for our city and since the department knows he is gone, they drive by about every hour to keep an eye on the house for him. Apparently it's a police courtesy for new hires...?.

[Nishu]

I'm SO glad I read this post earlier. Today 3 little girls --clearly hoodlums-- came to my door trying to sell chocolate and cookie dough, of all things.

Luckily I saw right though their little farce and sent them packin'. There's no telling how they planned to take advantage of my kindliness.

That would freak me out though. I'm seriously considering buying a handgun because the man is gone now literally months out of the year. A few weeks ago we had some guy stop at my house at 2am, knock on the door, and ask for DIRECTIONS. To a street that was like 50 feet away. Seriously.

[Nishu]

My husband answered the door that time. It's a good thing too, because I would have either wet myself, or greeted him with a baseball bat to the face. But in his defense, my fil and husband were sitting in the front room with the tv on and the windows open. We were obviously home and awake. I don't know. It still kinda makes me nervous and I wonder if he might have been scoping the place out.