[RP TownTalk] again with the door-to-door sales

Lou King lking at knob.com
Wed Jun 4 03:25:17 UTC 2008


Yes, Nancy.
Same company as last year.
Yes you know the law.
Yes you should have called the local police after you got your door closed.
(everyone seems to forget the last step.)

Lou

Nancy Augustine wrote:
> A young-ish man who says he's with APX Honeywell was on my street, 
> this evening. He wanted to talk to me about home security systems, 
> claiming that there had been a lot of false alarms in our area. I 
> asked him if he had a permit and he said no, he wasn't selling 
> anything, just advertising. I told him door-to-door solicitation 
> without a permit is not allowed here (that's right, isn't it?), and I 
> told him to be on his way.
>  
> He may have been legitimate (except for not having a permit), I don't 
> know. I didn't give him the opportunity to do anything sketchy. When 
> was it, last year that there were some shady folks in the neighborhood 
> doing roughly the same thing? 
>  
> In any case, beware.
>  
> Nancy A





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