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Thread: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

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    What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    I had another Kleeneze catalogue through the door last Friday and on Tue and Weds this week I arrived home to little notes saying that my reps had called and would I please leave the catalogue outside the door for them when they call again on XXXXXXXXX

    Something about these and similar ventures - Betterware, etc - really winds me up and I never return their catalogues to them (and never order from them either). I guess I think that if you want your catalogue back you should ask if I want it before giving it to me first. On the other hand, they are just trying to earn a few quid and it saves stuff going to landfill if you give it back to them for re-use at another house.

    So, quick poll time. What do you do with unsolicited catalogues through your door?

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    What do you do with unsolicited catalogues through your door?
    Why don't you just put them under the mattress with your ordered catalogues Rob? You never know when you might need some new rubber gloves or cling film.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    Something about these and similar ventures - Betterware, etc - really winds me up and I never return their catalogues to them (and never order from them either). I guess I think that if you want your catalogue back you should ask if I want it before giving it to me first. On the other hand, they are just trying to earn a few quid and it saves stuff going to landfill if you give it back to them for re-use at another house.
    They might give you unsolicited catalogues, but they don't make you read them. When you find one on your doormat, just stick 'em straight outside the door. Worry over & everyone's happy.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    On the other hand, they are just trying to earn a few quid and it saves stuff going to landfill if you give it back to them for re-use at another house.

    So, quick poll time. What do you do with unsolicited catalogues through your door?
    What? No one recycles? Yes, I'm definitely at the point that I'm uncomfortable if I have no option but to put something recyclable in the bin.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I had another Kleeneze catalogue through the door last Friday and on Tue and Weds this week I arrived home to little notes saying that my reps had called and would I please leave the catalogue outside the door for them when they call again on XXXXXXXXX

    Something about these and similar ventures - Betterware, etc - really winds me up and I never return their catalogues to them (and never order from them either). I guess I think that if you want your catalogue back you should ask if I want it before giving it to me first. On the other hand, they are just trying to earn a few quid and it saves stuff going to landfill if you give it back to them for re-use at another house.

    So, quick poll time. What do you do with unsolicited catalogues through your door?
    Blimey, dude, these people are just trying to earn a crust. They probably have to pay for the catalogues; I bet the profits they make are minimal. I like Lou's solution - just put it straight back on the doormat.

    The ones who piste me off are the people who shove anything up to a dozen take-away leaflets a day through my letter box. Chinese, Indian and most numerous and tiresome of all, pizzas. Serves me right for living in the university ghetto.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lou View Post
    They might give you unsolicited catalogues, but they don't make you read them. When you find one on your doormat, just stick 'em straight outside the door. Worry over & everyone's happy.
    I don't know why it winds me up so much, especially as I never understand why people get the hump over unsolicited e-mail (assuming it's not offensive to them in some way) since they aren't forced to read it, just click delete, yet here I am with the same attitude albeit a different scenario

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Idle Mind View Post
    What? No one recycles?
    Isn't that what the 'supplement the toilet roll' option is for?

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I don't know why it winds me up so much, especially as I never understand why people get the hump over unsolicited e-mail (assuming it's not offensive to them in some way) since they aren't forced to read it, just click delete, yet here I am with the same attitude albeit a different scenario
    Its probably because they are entering into a "contract" with you without your say so - i.e. they give us something we don't want and hassle us for it back - and we feel oblidged to return it but annoyed at the same time...i throw it outside the door like Lou. We never have to return an unsolicited email, so they are far less annoying.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    They give the green bin men a job!

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Recycle most fliers, but if I hear one being put through the door, then I often find the distributor (I live in an apartment building & they usually take the lift to the top floor & walk down) and escort them from the premises, explaining that this is private property and they have no right to be in the building. They tend not to come back.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    I look at the date they are coming back for their catalogue - if I'm going to be out I just leave it outside my door with no order. If I'm in the house that night then I always order something I don't really need cos I feel guilty if I don't have an order to hand over - I'm such a wuss

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jennifer View Post
    I look at the date they are coming back for their catalogue - if I'm going to be out I just leave it outside my door with no order. If I'm in the house that night then I always order something I don't really need cos I feel guilty if I don't have an order to hand over - I'm such a wuss
    whats your address ? i have a lot of tat i want rid of - ill make a nice catalogue for it

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    whats your address ? i have a lot of tat i want rid of - ill make a nice catalogue for it
    You'll have to work on your lonely misfit look if you want an order.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Jennifer's reasonably well endowed as it is. I don't know why she'd need any more equipment

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    The ones who piste me off are the people who shove anything up to a dozen take-away leaflets a day through my letter box. Chinese, Indian and most numerous and tiresome of all, pizzas. Serves me right for living in the university ghetto.
    Funny I never tire of these types

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Funny I never tire of these types
    I'll send mine to you, if you like.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Feelingpink View Post
    Recycle most fliers, but if I hear one being put through the door, then I often find the distributor (I live in an apartment building & they usually take the lift to the top floor & walk down) and escort them from the premises, explaining that this is private property and they have no right to be in the building. They tend not to come back.
    Wrong in law, actually, but if you can persuade them good for you.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I don't know why it winds me up so much, especially as I never understand why people get the hump over unsolicited e-mail (assuming it's not offensive to them in some way) since they aren't forced to read it, just click delete, yet here I am with the same attitude albeit a different scenario
    If it helps you feel better - leave it out with the plastic bag slightly open. You can toy with the person who comes to collect it - imagine their hopes soar as they see an obviously opened catalogue sitting, temptingly, on your doorstep - and how those hopes will be cruelly dashed when they look inside!

    And if you're lucky, it might've rained & the catalogue will be soggy.

    See - you still can be evil with my method.

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Wrong in law, actually, but if you can persuade them good for you.
    So, what, everone has a right to go into an apartment block, or what? I'd have thought private property (whether communally-owned or personally-owned) is, well, private?

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    Re: What do you do with unsolicited catalogues (Kleeneze, etc) through your door?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    I'll send mine to you, if you like.
    ok ill have 18 chicken nuggets and 4 portions of chips and 1 litre of Cola for £4.99

    Ta

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