On 11/2/2015 11:20 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 11/2/2015 11:41 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
My rule of thumb: if they're making the approach, they're not legit.
Legit companies have enough business that they don't need to waste
their
time going door to door. That goes double if they're any good at what
they do.


I get spam telephone calls, every day.
Same concept.

Yep. Because legit companies honor the Do Not Call list; therefore, by
definition, anyone cold-calling you in violation of the DNC is not legit.

Realistically, they fall into two groups:

1. Actual (usually local) companies desperate enough for business that
they're willing to break the law to try to get some. If they're that
hard up, they're either no good at what they purport to do, or they're
so close to failing that you wouldn't want to risk hiring them anyway.
Besides, they broke the law calling you, and that tells you about
their ethics.

2. Crooks. This is by far the majority of DNC violators.

As for door-to-door cold calling, the success rate on a cost-per-hour
basis has got to be way too low for most legit businesses. Nowadays,
the vast majority of people don't even want to answer their door to a
stranger, much less hire them to do work. It's probably no more
successful than bandit signs.

On 11/01/2015 02:33 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 10/31/2015 4:37 PM, T wrote:
Do you recall the scene from Any Which Way but Loose where
the bikers came to harass Grandma? "Leave a poor defenseless
old woman alone by herself!" (as the bikers ran for their
lives).

The bikers rolled up to her sitting on her front
porch and started to threaten her. She acts scared
and reaches behind her, pulls out her (I presume
to be a) 12 gauge, and proceeded to demolish their bikes
while they ran in terror. All the while complaining about
leaving a poor helpless old woman home alone by herself.
The scene ended with the bikeless bikers running for their
lives down the street. It was hysterical.


Thanks, that does sound good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmAvGrgzgQ

This look like what you remember?

Yup. That is the one. Hysterical still. I am going to
save this one.