Unsolicited want to buy your RV people
OK I am paranoid, I was not born this way it is an acquired trait. I live in a small out of the way neighborhood and the likelihood of someone just driving by and seeing my rv is rather slim. I s...
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Jjrbus, and everyone else.
I wouldn’t be paranoid but you have the right to be, because yeah, no one looking to give a fair market price or charge a fair market price for services (the solicitors) is going to knock on your door. Period, end of story. Same goes for mail, email and phone call solicitations.
There are enough people that are either desperate or uninformed enough that this is more prevalent than ever. And it’s 10x worse in retirement areas because you can add age degeneration to the other 2 traits that make people susceptible to getting ripped off.
My in-laws, as savvy as they used to be, regularly ask me or my wife’s sister about these solicitations, as if they don’t remember the last conversation we had or the 10 before that.
Period, end of story, if YOU aren’t the one initiating any potential financial transaction, then you don’t want any part of it. Wouldn’t think it’s that hard to remember or figure out for anyone who’s lived a pile of years on this planet and has at least somewhat avg cognitive skills, but it is. Some out of desperation and some out of age and some out of pure lack of intelligence. Don’t be a sucker…is the moral of the story.
I’m barely over 50 and get mail and phone solicitations semi regularly. Hoping my kids can keep me from selling the farm for $5 when I start hiding my car keys in my cream o wheat!
@Desert Captain, those mfers that trespassed would have been greeted with a shovel in hand, if they were lucky. So we live last house in the corner in a 5ac lots gated subdivision that literally is on the way to absolutely nothing unless you live or are visiting someone here (even though we’re smack in the Seattle burbs). You can’t even drive past our house unintentionally.
Few years ago, musta been a weekend. I’m working in the shop and a car pulls down and dude starts snapping pictures. I run out asking wtf he’s doing and boom, throws the car in gear and takes off…. I caught him before he got out of the subdivision and put him in the ditch. As I was getting ready to disassemble him and his camera he pops out an ID from the county assessor and he was taking updated tax photos. So I let him go with some sage advice….dunno what happened but the pics of our house on the county assessor website are still the original ones from 20 years ago!
The funniest was last winter, bout bedtime, during a storm and power is out, a van pulls up and stops at the top of the drive, like 30 year old white creeper or tweaker van. And it stops and sits there for idk maybe a minute. (Guessin in hindsight he couldn’t see the address on the fence post). We were watching it for a bit then it comes down the driveway. Everything is dark outside since the genny is only powering what needs to be on.
This poor Amazon delivery guy literally threw the package at me when he heard me rack the bolt and said I’m sorry about 16 times while running back to the van.
Glad it was a sweatshirt and not a package of light bulbs! Lol.
Still, seems a couple times a year, me or the kids will run someone off who looks sketchy, waiting for the subdivision gate to open when we pull up. There are a couple elderly couples in our neighborhood, also the only houses they have been burglarized since we’ve lived here.
Our German Shepherds probably help keep us from being more than a fleeting thought as a target though. Even though the insurance company quit allowing me to claim them for the home security discount a couple years ago….lol. Hell, we don’t even own any house keys anymore….if someone accidentally locks the back door we gotta break in…. But if you break in, you better know the dogs names and have a couple steaks to throw to them! :B
I wouldn’t be paranoid but you have the right to be, because yeah, no one looking to give a fair market price or charge a fair market price for services (the solicitors) is going to knock on your door. Period, end of story. Same goes for mail, email and phone call solicitations.
There are enough people that are either desperate or uninformed enough that this is more prevalent than ever. And it’s 10x worse in retirement areas because you can add age degeneration to the other 2 traits that make people susceptible to getting ripped off.
My in-laws, as savvy as they used to be, regularly ask me or my wife’s sister about these solicitations, as if they don’t remember the last conversation we had or the 10 before that.
Period, end of story, if YOU aren’t the one initiating any potential financial transaction, then you don’t want any part of it. Wouldn’t think it’s that hard to remember or figure out for anyone who’s lived a pile of years on this planet and has at least somewhat avg cognitive skills, but it is. Some out of desperation and some out of age and some out of pure lack of intelligence. Don’t be a sucker…is the moral of the story.
I’m barely over 50 and get mail and phone solicitations semi regularly. Hoping my kids can keep me from selling the farm for $5 when I start hiding my car keys in my cream o wheat!
@Desert Captain, those mfers that trespassed would have been greeted with a shovel in hand, if they were lucky. So we live last house in the corner in a 5ac lots gated subdivision that literally is on the way to absolutely nothing unless you live or are visiting someone here (even though we’re smack in the Seattle burbs). You can’t even drive past our house unintentionally.
Few years ago, musta been a weekend. I’m working in the shop and a car pulls down and dude starts snapping pictures. I run out asking wtf he’s doing and boom, throws the car in gear and takes off…. I caught him before he got out of the subdivision and put him in the ditch. As I was getting ready to disassemble him and his camera he pops out an ID from the county assessor and he was taking updated tax photos. So I let him go with some sage advice….dunno what happened but the pics of our house on the county assessor website are still the original ones from 20 years ago!
The funniest was last winter, bout bedtime, during a storm and power is out, a van pulls up and stops at the top of the drive, like 30 year old white creeper or tweaker van. And it stops and sits there for idk maybe a minute. (Guessin in hindsight he couldn’t see the address on the fence post). We were watching it for a bit then it comes down the driveway. Everything is dark outside since the genny is only powering what needs to be on.
This poor Amazon delivery guy literally threw the package at me when he heard me rack the bolt and said I’m sorry about 16 times while running back to the van.
Glad it was a sweatshirt and not a package of light bulbs! Lol.
Still, seems a couple times a year, me or the kids will run someone off who looks sketchy, waiting for the subdivision gate to open when we pull up. There are a couple elderly couples in our neighborhood, also the only houses they have been burglarized since we’ve lived here.
Our German Shepherds probably help keep us from being more than a fleeting thought as a target though. Even though the insurance company quit allowing me to claim them for the home security discount a couple years ago….lol. Hell, we don’t even own any house keys anymore….if someone accidentally locks the back door we gotta break in…. But if you break in, you better know the dogs names and have a couple steaks to throw to them! :B
