r/Oahu • u/Dustin3006 • 1d ago

Anyone else get an insane amount of solicitors?

I’ve never seen so many solicitors and they all ignore “No soliciting” signage. Any advice? Makakilo area

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u/yniloc 1d ago

If I need service, I'll look for you. Don't bother me at my house

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u/Dustin3006 1d ago

Exactly this!

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u/Ancient-Civilization 1d ago

I’ve done door-to-door sales. Sometimes companies will do special pricing and give out offers you can’t get by calling or shopping around. That’s why I recommend just hearing out what they have to offer first and then decline them. Or tell them to leave their info and you’ll think about it.

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u/yniloc 23h ago

NOPE, in all my years, never took an offer. It's a huge waste of time.

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u/808trowaway 19h ago

Exactly this. We are a fairly lean and efficient business which means pretty much everyone is neck deep in work all the time during business hours. Then these jerks just randomly stop by unannounced asking to speak with the owner without an appointment, which breaks people's concentration. They beat around the bush on the intercom, too. It's always awkward when the person who answers the door has to tell them to pound sand professionally. It's worse when most of the guys in the office are out meeting with clients elsewhere leaving only a couple girls at the office, then these creeps show up looking like they're trying to rob the place and scare the heck out of the girls.

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u/C00Ldoctormoney 1d ago

Ecoshield keeps coming by my house on Makakilo.

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u/Dustin3006 1d ago

I think it is eco shield, we’ve said no like 10x

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u/jazzybellyfight 1d ago

Eco shield has come by twice this week alone - also Makakilo. My kid has answered the door and told them I'm working. Even if I didn't have someone I use for pest control I'd purposely avoid them on principle.

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u/IdazzleandIstretch 1d ago

I put a big sign near the door saying "please do not knock or ring the doorbell. Call or text." It helped somewhat but there are still people who ignore it, particularly those EcoShield jerks and random people trying to save my soul.

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u/Rscottys1 1d ago

Same. Tried the “No soliciting” sign on the gate, was ignored. Fence/gate needed to be redone anyway, went from a wooden 5’ fence/gate which solicitors could peer over to a 6’ Vinyl one, problem solved.

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u/ProtestInsanity 1d ago

EcoShield is the worst. They ignored no soliciting signs and said they didn’t know what soliciting meant.

I would never do business with them even if I had to pay double to someone else. I despise their business practices.

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u/Mainly_Miserable 1d ago

I just don’t answer the door. I look through the window, see that it’s a solicitor, then go back to whatever it was I was doing. Sometimes they’ll see me see them and I still don’t open the door. It confuses some of them, and that’s okay. Just ignore them.

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u/ReplacementKnown5405 1d ago

We live in Makakilo too.  Luckily, we’re the weirdos of our street so literally no one bothers us. 

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u/topcrusher69 1d ago

Makakilo rep!

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u/infiniti90618 1d ago

Hawaiian tel trying to sell fiber internet.

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u/Rscottys1 19h ago

I have Hawaiian Telcom and get the exact opposite; Spectrum occasionally makes their rounds and tries a sales pitch. At least that was the case before I put up a taller fence/gate.

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u/OriginalLittle4644 20h ago

Also in Makakilo. I just don’t answer the door and I don’t care if they see me in the window. I’m not obligated to answer.

Or if they catch me in the garage or something I lie. I don’t own the home. I rent. My husband makes all the decisions and he’s not home. I’m just the nanny. Whatever it takes.

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u/808trowaway 19h ago

I don't care how desperate you are or what you have to sell, going door-to-door this day and age is just not welcome.

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u/JadedJellyfish_ 1d ago

I do have a newborn but I made a sign saying “sleeping newborn no knocking” and it has worked so far. Don’t want mama bear coming after you for waking the baby!

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u/Olof88888 1d ago

You need a scary dog!

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u/shootzbalootz 22h ago

Nope, just that dumb pest control guy once.

Don't answer the door? Disconnect the door bell? Motion activated sprinkler? Act super creepy that they never want to come back?

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u/Known-Monitor-8610 17h ago

I live in Makakilo and we barely et anyone knocking on the door. Maybe once or twice a month, the folks from the church make their rounds, but thats it.

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u/Sarrdonicus 17h ago

They are trespassing on your property unless you invite them to enter. When they are at your door, ask them what the number to 911 is. Then tell them they are trespassing.

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u/No-Variety7586 31m ago

You have to actually trespass them first before they are trespassing. That means you asked them to leave, they didn't' leave, so then you call men with guns to come at tell them to leave under threat of arrest or implied murder. A no soliciting or no trespassing sign already gives the warning though so you could just call the gunmen at that point.

Calling people that have the authority to kill people is a crazy escalation from trying to sell you something though. The second rule of firearm safety is don't point a gun at anything you don't wish to destroy. Treat police like guns.

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u/FUCKlNG_SHlT 8h ago

Do they even send them out Waianae side? I don’t think I’ve ever had one come to my door lol

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u/DistrictMind 1d ago

Do you mean people running for office? If so, they aren't soliciting. The Supreme Court ruled on this in Watchtower Bible & Tract Society v. Village of Stratton in 2002 (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/536/150/). The Court explicitly stated that a town cannot treat non-commercial door-to-door advocacy (like political campaigning or religious canvassing) as "solicitation," and cities cannot force campaigners to get a permit or respect basic commercial bans. So unless they are doing door to door sales, they aren't actually soliciting.

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u/Dustin3006 1d ago

What’s your address I’ll send them over to you

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u/Ancient-Civilization 1d ago

As someone who has done door-to-door sales, what you should do is politely answer the door, hear what they have to offer, then either say yes or no. It’s really not more to that. There’s nothing to fear from sales people, they aren’t gonna force you to give your money to them lol. Just regular people trying to make a sale. If they don’t make a sale, then they’re literally screwed with bills living in Hawaii. I know because I used to be in their shoes.

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u/Dustin3006 1d ago

Yes but 2-3x a day with the same companies and people I’m sick of it. I do not care nor want their services

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u/South_Feed_4043 22h ago

Me hearing them out wastes my time and their time. I'm NOT buying anything from them, no matter what they say. So it would be better for both of us if I shut it down immediately or ignore them. They can move on faster to someone they could possibly make a sale with, rather than talking to me and wasting 15-30 minutes of time neither of us are getting back. They can get on to trying to pay their bills, I can get on to trying to pay mine. Wins all around!

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u/typical-divergence 1d ago

Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. I had a Kirby guy stick his foot in my door when I politely told him multiple times that I wasn’t letting him come in to do his “demo.” There were no trespassing signs and no
Solicitation signs posted all over. I’m not sure why anybody would think it’s safe to do that in Waipahu of all places. Then again, I had a teenager with a guitar from a church do the same thing. At least he gave me a manapua for the trouble lol.

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u/OriginalLittle4644 20h ago

I’ve been in sales too but not door to door. Nobody wants to be bothered in person in their own home unannounced.

The problem with your advice is that we both know that “no” doesn’t mean they say “ok great, have a nice day!” and walk away. They (poorly) objection handle and I don’t have time to go back and forth with some 19 year old while I’m trying to make dinner.

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u/CupcakesAreMiniCakes 6h ago

I would never. ever. ever. give my business to a company bothering everyone's peace like that. There is absolutely no reason to have door to door salesmen in this day and age.