“British Gas has said it will end doorstep selling for three months, claiming the format is “outdated”.”
Now we just need the rest of the utility companies to stop it too.
My experience has been that the folks that come knocking on my front door. tell out-and-out lies.
Sure they show their ID and introduce themselves as representing whichever company. They have a clip board with some sort of questionnaire on which they tick boxes or, in the case of one guy, continually tick the same box as he slowly wore his way through the paper.
Typically they imply that they represent your supplier. Whenever I point out that I get my gas or electric from another company they switch tack and state that they have been tasked with making sure that we are on the best rates implying that they have some kind of government mandate to look after my best interests.
It’s at that point that I begin to close the door in their faces and send them on their way.
To my way of thinking their presence on my doorstep is as bad as cold calling on the telephone.
They were uninvited. They have disrupted my day. They have lied to me.
So I say Hooray that they have stopped this selling method along with Scottish and Southern Energy .
Now all we need is NPower, EDF and their kin to pack it in too.
WrAnTz 