Uncle Rico Go Away!

I'm as much of a free market entrepenuerial spirit guy as anyone else, and I realize that the hardest part of business is trying to get the word out about products and services to the buying public. With all the methods of "advertising" available there are three that I find the most horrendous.

1. Telemarketers
2. Door to Door Salesmen
3. Email Spammers

In my opinion, if I want something, I will go to a store and find a salesman to help me pick out and purchase said item. That should be the end of the story! Telemarketers are bad enough because they ALWAYS seem to call at the most inopportune times. To make matters worse, most telemarketers are trained to not accept no for an answer until you say no 2 or 3 times. It comes down to the point of screening EVERY call before 9 PM, or being downright rude to the person on the other end of the line to get them to go away. Peace and quiet? I pay taxes to be an US Citizen so that I can enjoy my freedom of PEACE AND QUIET. These people infringe on my rights. I'm NOT interested in consolidating debt with a low interest home equity line of credit. I'm NOT interested in hearing how I can take tiny little classified ads and place them in a million newspapers to become rich!!!

Door to Door salesmen seem to be at the forefront of my mind lately. In the last two days, I've had people ringing my doorbell to sell me this or that. Once again, interrupting my freedom of Peace and Quiet. Most of their products they sell are as useless as Uncle Rico's 24 piece set of tupperware that comes with at free model ship! I must have an invisible sign on my lawn that says..."welcome all desperate offers to buy useless crap!"

Finally, Email Spammers, while not being directly confrontational are just as bad by littering my various email addresses with Spam about products and services I don't care about. "Now new improved Viagragain gives you firmness you need and grows you new sod for the fairway as well." Like I have any of these problems anyways, and IF I did, wouldn't I be smart to talk to a doctor??? Or the always classic we'll put 10 million dollars in your bank account. Give us your account number, and then we'll take 9.5 million out in a few days and leave you the rest for your trouble. People stupid enough to do this deserve to get taken.

The sad thing is that these methods of selling seem to be gaining popularity, which means that there are enough gullible people in the world that allows these ways of getting business to be profitable. Gotta love the free market economy sometimes...