Sentence examples for doorstep selling from inspiring English sources

On a Thursday night a nice man from Devon appears on my doorstep selling fish and crab and prawns.

Addressing MPs on the Commons energy and climate change committee, Wright said rising prices, years of aggressive doorstep selling, confusing tariffs and complexity when consumers wanted to switch providers had all created negative perceptions of the industry.

They will ban 31 types of unfair sales practice outright, including bogus closing-down sales, prize-draw scams and aggressive doorstep selling, and will for the first time establish a catch-all duty not to trade unfairly, closing loopholes that rogue traders have been able to exploit.

In one example, a script used in doorstep selling described how "a government thing called deregulation... results in your energy prices being lowered by doing nothing at all".

I always try to be generous and kind when the mentally deficient come to my doorstep selling candy or trying to convince me Windows is great.

Much of the decline came be put down to the phasing out of doorstep selling in 2011.

"There is mounting concern in Parliament about the doorstep-selling techniques of large energy companies," he said.

This is designed to look like the manifesto that a lot of Labour activists would prefer to be selling on the doorstep.

Following the regulator's last investigation 18 months ago, it introduced rules to force suppliers to clamp down on doorstep mis-selling.

But the energy companies are fighting a wave of attacks over the way they have been operating with fines for doorstep mis-selling and criticism over the slow speed with which they respond to a fall ion wholesale prices.

Instead of selling directly on the doorstep, they provide office-workers and homeowners with a weighty product catalogue.