What do you do if you have a door-to-door sales offer? What if it is at night? To me, I always decline any door-to-door sales offers. The other day at 9:30 pm, someone was standing at the door and pushed the buzzer over and over again. I looked through the peephole and found two men were there. Basically, I never open the door when a stranger comes to my house, but I opened the door that day because I thought that these guys might be my neighbors. Since they were dressed in suit, it seemed like they were on the way home from work. I know most of my neighbors but not all of them.
When I opened the door, a guy a started sales pitch about carpet cleaning. The other guy didn’t say anything. He just stood behind the guy who spoke to me and watched me with an eagle eye. He offered me a free trial cleaning. He said if I accepted his offer, he would check my house and give an estimate right away. I didn’t let them in. I didn’t want to show my house to strangers, let alone at night. I declined his offer. After they left my home, I watched them. They got into their car without visiting any other neighbors and got into their car. Their car was a sedan and there was no company name was printed.
I can’t help thinking they were suspicious. A night visitor, in particular a stranger, is reminiscent of a crime. I remembered name of the company which he said, so I looked up the company on the Internet, but I couldn’t find the website of cleaning company. Some skepticism has lingered in my mind. Is the door-to-door sales offer at night common in the U.S? What do you think about this?
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