Effectiveness of 'No Soliciting' signs?

[TheRobSJ]

Nick just scatter some shell casings on your front doorstep and maybe the walk up too. Maybe some crime scene tape over the door. Should pretty much thwart all solicitors. Though you may not get mail/packages anymore either.

 

[Entoptic]

Uhhh, they're doing their job?

wtf

I don't think a dogs job is to go apeshit when someone rings the doorbell. It might be there job to alert you that someone has rung the doorbell but going apeshit is kinda odd. What happens when the alarm to wake up goes off? How about the microwave? All I am saying is that the dogs shouldn't be going bonkers when the doorbell rings.

 

[whitelotus]

Maybe I should try a "Danger: Landmines" sign...

Maybe have your dogs lay real "land mines" on the front step?

 

[Shaggy]

I don't think a dogs job is to go apeshit when someone rings the doorbell. It might be there job to alert you that someone has rung the doorbell but going apeshit is kinda odd. What happens when the alarm to wake up goes off? How about the microwave? All I am saying is that the dogs shouldn't be going bonkers when the doorbell rings.

Dogs are territorial animals. They don't care if the microwave beeps, phone rings, or alarm goes off. When a potential intruder arrives, they bark like crazy though (no growling or anything else, just barking).

I want to keep the signage a little aesthetically appealing, so posting stuff about video surveillance, fake cameras, or paragraph long warnings probably won't get the seal of approval from the wifey.

There are some decent looking signs in here: http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=no+soliciting&order=most_relevant&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US

 

[Nitewaif]

When I lived in Kansas City MO, my town house was right between two busy tourist/shopping areas with lots of foot traffic. I worked nights, often 16hour shifts, when some religious group wearing long orange robes and shaved heads started targeting my neighborhood. They kept ignoring my No Solicitors sign and ringing my doorbell aggressively and persistently. I had politely asked them them to take me off their list several times with no effect.

I had just gotten to sleep after a particularly nasdty/bloody traumas filled night at work which turned into a 16 hr shift when they showed up blasting my doorbell. I flung the door open and yelled, "Fucking WHAT!??".

I don't know if it was my bloodshot eyes, my hair sticking out, the tone of my voice, or the fact that I was standing there in my bath robe, enraged, with a .38 in my hand that did it, but they backed away with apologies and none of them bothered me again.

 

[carries an axe]

smear peanut butter and strawberry jam all over your body and answer the door naked when they ring the bell.

 

[Tharkûn]

smear peanut butter and strawberry jam all over your body and answer the door naked when they ring the bell.

Is that for the solicitors or the dogs?

 

[WeekEndWarrior]

I have a sign and still ppl knocking on my door, if the sign detours but not all idk.. But all 110% of them are half back down my walkway after they knock And my dog goes ape shit.

<- yes that one.

 

[carries an axe]

Is that for the solicitors or the dogs?

try it, ill be ringing the bell

 

[maxandgrinch]

I think if there was a 'novelty' baseball bat with a 'No Soliciting,' sign attached....... Hmmmm.

Because it is a novelty bat, the 6" rusty nails appear to have gone all the way through the novelty bat.... Halloween blood and hair is usually cheap.

Anyone want to make a lot of money selling novelty baseball bats with signs door-to-door for M&G's Novelty Bat Company?

Our slogan 'This is how you stop me next time. $50 and it's yours.'

 

[corndog67]

I don't think a dogs job is to go apeshit when someone rings the doorbell. It might be there job to alert you that someone has rung the doorbell but going apeshit is kinda odd. What happens when the alarm to wake up goes off? How about the microwave? All I am saying is that the dogs shouldn't be going bonkers when the doorbell rings.

That's my dog's job. Or possibly kill them if someone comes in, uninvited.

That said, I'm in a gated community. We've got large signs at the gate. Even so, when some guy came to the door, Vivant Alarms or something like that, I told the van driver they are trespassing, and they left. That night, they got busted at the motel 6 about 2 blocks from my house, they were a burglary ring.

Also, some JWs came by. I asked them if someone invited them in, some cocky bastard said, we don't need an invitation. I told him to suck my dick, wait here. A minute later, when the cops showed up, and I told them that I thought they were burglars, and the cops showed up in force, it turns out they were Jehovah's. A co-worker of mine is a Jehovah, news of that made it back to the GrandWizardGreatSkydragon of the JWs, and they were told to stay out. It worked. Fuck 'em, they can keep their cult bullshit to themselves.

 

[jh2586]

This should do the trick:

 

[enki]

I've seen people walk up to my porch and then turn around and walk away when they see the 'no soliciting' sign but I still get the occasional persistent idiot who rings the bell. My standard response to them is to point to the 'no soliciting' sign that is right above the fucking door bell and ask them "did you not see this?".

Then I just shut the door.

They read English?

 

[shouldnthave]

I used to be a bartender, and I had the same thing happen all the time. I put a very nice note over my doorbell that said,
" Baby sleeping please do not disturb.
No solicitors, please leave any packages on the doorstep, and quietly leave."

No one ever rang the bell again.

I imagine that no one wants to deal with a mother with a freshly woken baby in the house.

 

[Zerox]

Would be cool to rig up some giant hidden speakers over the door, aimed down at the doorbell. When solicitors ignore the No Soliciting sign, you could blast the Inception sound at high volume.

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[Honey Badger]

Biggest issue is that certain groups (think Environment California) can sneak under any legal wire as not being "solicitors" because they aren't selling anything. I think religious groups would fall under the same category.

Probably helps with door-to-door salesmen and the canvassers who don't want to piss people off, but some people aren't going to care as long as they can legally get away with it.

 

[m_asim]

Turn off your doorbell while you are asleep.

Too bad I don't get the Jehovah's witnesses in my 'hood. Lots of fun to be had trying to convert them to the religion du jour

"Excuse me Sir. Do you consider Christ your savior?"

"Well. Do you consider Shiva the Supreme God? If not, then why not?"

And more hilarity ensues afterwards until one of us gets bored and/or hungry.

 

[Nahullo]

We had a few folks dropping by to offer us items / services for sale... Then my wife put us this sign (via Amazon) and it dropped to almost zero. So it went from probably 3 or 4 a week to 1 or 2 a month. It absolutely helped and I get to bitch-out folks who ignore it (especially when the wee one is sleeping) on the weekends.