<story><title>Life as a door-to-door salesman</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/narratives/2022/11/17/whats-it-like-work-door-door-sales-job/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Argh, I hate the solar salesmen.  We get them all the time during the warm season.  I have a hard time going the rude route and just shutting the door on them, but I&amp;#x27;m improved a lot in shutting down their arguments with three sentences of my own stats.  Pretty quickly they know I&amp;#x27;ve run the numbers, figured out why it doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for me, and I&amp;#x27;ve shut down all arguments they want to make.  Usually they just say &amp;quot;Wow, it sounds like you&amp;#x27;re already given this a lot of thought.&amp;quot;  Umm, yeah, yeah I have.  I wanted the numbers to work.  I tried to convince myself.  Even with Project Solar pricing, it does&amp;#x27;t work for me.  So it sure as hell won&amp;#x27;t work if I pay your prices that give you such a nice commission.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>I just tell them I already signed a contract with the last solar salesman and they’re coming tomorrow to install it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Life as a door-to-door salesman</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/narratives/2022/11/17/whats-it-like-work-door-door-sales-job/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Argh, I hate the solar salesmen.  We get them all the time during the warm season.  I have a hard time going the rude route and just shutting the door on them, but I&amp;#x27;m improved a lot in shutting down their arguments with three sentences of my own stats.  Pretty quickly they know I&amp;#x27;ve run the numbers, figured out why it doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for me, and I&amp;#x27;ve shut down all arguments they want to make.  Usually they just say &amp;quot;Wow, it sounds like you&amp;#x27;re already given this a lot of thought.&amp;quot;  Umm, yeah, yeah I have.  I wanted the numbers to work.  I tried to convince myself.  Even with Project Solar pricing, it does&amp;#x27;t work for me.  So it sure as hell won&amp;#x27;t work if I pay your prices that give you such a nice commission.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedmiston</author><text>Nothing wrong with just not answering.  How long are they really going to stand there waiting?</text></comment>