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A young American woman was left red-faced after falling for a door-to-door salesman scam just five months after moving to Australia.
The woman said a handsome young man approached her in her driveway and offered to clean her carpets for free.
She stumbled and explained that she only had tiles, hoping to get rid of the salesman without confrontation, but instead he booked them to be cleaned the following Sunday.
As part of the man’s opening pitch, the man, in his 20s, offered the woman a company brochure, told her she was eligible for a free cleaning and would be entered into a $1,000 drawing.
On Reddit, the woman said she was mortified by the encounter and had spoken to her husband, who revealed it was a “scam.”
A young American woman was left red-faced after “falling for a door-to-door salesman’s scam” just five months after moving to Australia.
“He says, ‘Yeah, those are the vacuum scammers, they go to every house, if you didn’t win anything, they want you to buy cleaning devices, you get nothing,'” she wrote.
Then he asked what he should do on Sunday at 2 pm, when the young man, or his friends, returned to do the “cleaning.”
“I feel really bad, honestly at first I thought it was some community giveaway or something like a charity thing like free car washes,” she said.
She added that she is afraid to call the company to cancel the appointment and is also afraid that the cleaners will “skip” her.
People were quick to comment on the thread, criticizing the American for being naive, and giving her advice for negotiating in the coming days.
“Open the door with a mask and tell them you’ve tested positive (for Covid),” one woman said.
‘Don’t even open the door. Just yell and then walk away and ignore them,” said another.
“I’d just sell up and move,” another suggested.
Others told him to tell them that he no longer has apartments and does not need their services.
While one told him to put on a “do not touch” sticker as businesses have to comply or face sanctions.
Some said he should “go to therapy” to learn to say no to people who try to sell him things he doesn’t want.
‘Learn the key adult skill of calm assertiveness. Do the therapy, research and practice the strategies. “He is sabotaging his own life,” one person warned.
Some were disappointed that there was no “door-to-door salesman love story” and blamed the headline for being misleading.
“I fell in love with a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman,” read the initial headline.
“It’s not what I expected,” one woman complained, echoing dozens of comments.
Some were only too happy to offer their own romantic tales.
Over twenty years ago, a Kirby salesman offered to clean my carpet for free. “He had a dog that kept urinating on the carpet, so I said yes, please,” one woman said as she began her story.
One woman said to put this sticker on the door to avoid further encounters.
She said the man “lingered” after showing off his carpet cleaner.
“At first I had given him a glass of wine. After a while, she very awkwardly asked me if she could spend the night with me. “He was beautiful and I was single and living in a small, gossipy town with no talent, so I said yes,” she said.
“We all had a great night and I happily said goodbye to him the next day.”
He added that his cousins have been playing cleaner pranks on him since then.
Some people noted that they have worked for similar companies.
‘The cleaning they will do is approximately one meter by one meter. “Don’t buy expensive things,” said one.