Tonight at about 6pm in the NW community of Collingwood, we (siblings, spouses, etc) were all at my mom's house for her birthday, and a persistent SOB claiming to be with Telus came to the door and literally tried to push into the house several times, repeatedly demanded our Shaw bill, explain our current services, and would not take no for an answer.
My brother was the one who answered, and it pretty much devolved into a yelling match/battle of wills-type thing while the rest of us chuckled from the living room. But he eventually left. I just assumed he was a pushy, demanding mofo salesman. We've all seen those.
~30 minutes later, my mom's neighbour came over and said a guy (probably the same guy?) claiming to be from Direct Energy pretty much did the exact same thing to them, only her husband put on his assertive hat and got rid of him.
I regret not calling 911 to report this right away. Going to file a police report in the morning. Probably good info for the police to have. It all seems waaaay too suspicious.
Of course it could've just been some schmuck doing his #### job really well, getting people to sign contracts. But you never know.
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