AGL launches ‘do not knock’ sticker campaign while fighting legal battle against stickers
Energy supplier AGL has launched a campaign distributing hundreds of thousands of ‘do not knock’ stickers to customers while at the same time it is fighting a battle against the legal enforceability of such signs.
The brand has begun to enclose “Do not knock” stickers with its bills. If consumers put them in place, they make it more difficult for rival energy companies to persuade consumers to switch.
The move has been labelled ironic by AGL’s critics.
As a consumer, it makes me wonder why they’re so worried I might find out about their competitor’s offers. I don’t feel like they’re doing me a favour, I don’t answer my front door anyway.
The move has been labelled as “ironic” by Alanis Morrisette too.
lol
AGL rather amusing that you needed feedback from customers that 3rd party pressure selling isn’t appreciated at the door.
Ever wonder why no other sector is doing it?
ironic indeed – and pointless.
Lumo’s the only one doing door knocking these days i gather
where oh where is the PR agency for AGL.. this poor woman is left to make senseless contradictory statements – not a good look
Cheeky bastards!
I have had about 5 people knock on my door (when I have been at home) in the last 6 months, trying to sell me something. I live in a unit block and communicate with these callers via intercom. My intercom has a video; I can see them, however they cannot see me.
I will break these ‘door knockers down’ into two groups for you:
1) Religious nutjobs
2) Energy selling nutjobs
Both parties begin their spill with “I am not trying to sell you anything”. Funny that, because both, in the long term, will (if I oblige) take my cash!
I am always polite. I ignore whatever they say and always ask them a few wayward questions; politely and calmly of course.
I start with something along the lines of: “Can you see any red cars in my street?”
Regardless of whether they reply “yes” or “no” I proceed with: “Have you ever been to France?”
Again, regardless of their answer I then move onto something I can see, through the video intercom: “Are you wearing a striped tie?” OR “Is the coat that you are wearing registered with local authorities?”
“Are you enabled for driveway clearance” usually ends the conversation.
I will always try to also get in: “Just to let you know that all conversations at this doorstep are recorded for training and compliance purposes, is that okay?”
Whilst they are departing I usually belt out the chorus of a song, like this one from 42nd St:
“We’re in the money,
We’re in the money;
We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!”
(I sing this as loud as I possibly can and in a high pitched accent) – I have a deep voice usually.
That is how I liaise with these people – AGL, please feel free to send your guys around whenever you like!
LOL too
To ” My experience”
youre nuts…I love you.
To ” my experience”….for some people…(the lonely or disliked ) this may be the only interaction they have with another person all day. Let’s not knock that. Look at it more of a community service in some instances.
When I was very young, a long time ago, I had a Donald Duck comic in which the nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, had a scheme to market little “No Hawkers or Canvassers” plaques.
They sold them door to door.
@Willy Loman
A male neighbour rang my intercom 3 weeks ago, (he had locked himself out of the unit block). I went through the usual procedure, (as mentioned above), he hasn’t spoken to me since..?