Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

[dubdaz]

One of my colleagues had a customer with his own double glazing firm,he paid £8000 to have d2d's to every walk in our office (80 walks with an average of 600 calls). He was less than impressed with the result of a total of 4 enquiries !!

[Pat Ostman]

Do door-to-doors really drum up interest in a business? Is there a proven link between running a programme of d2d services and an increase in custom?

Yes,so RM and others say.

Let's be honeset,they wouldn't send them if it didn't work,also and i know everyone hates them including me,but it's work for us.

I agree, they would not send them if they did not work and a lot of our d2ds are repeat custom

[chelseachris]

I was a couple of streets behind a couple of polish guys delivering ikea catalogues and every one of them where sticking out of the doors some people thought i was delivering them when i got their distance.

[Lounge Lizard]

Have the usual British Gas D2Ds for a village with no gas and Anglian Windows D2Ds for the same village which is in a conservation area which isn't allowed UPVC windows oh and Farmfoods every other week for an area who think Waitrose is for poor people

Yes, and the British Gas in a mains-gasless village is at least three times a year and now there's the charity bags for collection next Thursday and it's the wealthy remote houses that fill the bags and put them out to still be there a few rain drenched days later as they were only collected from the built-up areas where nobody is willing to donate anything. Madness.

[Lounge Lizard]

Have the usual British Gas D2Ds for a village with no gas and Anglian Windows D2Ds for the same village which is in a conservation area which isn't allowed UPVC windows oh and Farmfoods every other week for an area who think Waitrose is for poor people

"and Farmfoods every other week for an area who think Waitrose is for poor people" - well Waitrose is for poor people given the number of Fortnum and Masons Christmas catalogues I've been delivering lately.

[POSTMAN]

One of my colleagues had a customer with his own double glazing firm,he paid £8000 to have d2d's to every walk in our office (80 walks with an average of 600 calls). He was less than impressed with the result of a total of 4 enquiries !!

Wern't in the summer was it?

Anyway,most of them are rip offs,people would only normally go to the big boys for that kind of stuff.Would 'you' go to a local?

[POSTMAN]

Regarding Somerfields,as you may know they have been bought out by the " Co-operative Group who is a unique family of businesses run by over five-and-a-half million members, and together we each have a say in how these businesses are run.Except when prices are involved as we just rip you off no end as we have just bought the cheaper Somerfields and now locally you are f****d!" but there does not seem to be any Co-op D2D'S,are you lot getting them?

[fishtank]

Regarding Somerfields,as you may know they have been bought out by the " Co-operative Group who is a unique family of businesses run by over five-and-a-half million members, and together we each have a say in how these businesses are run.Except when prices are involved as we just rip you off no end as we have just bought the cheaper Somerfields and now locally you are f****d!" but there does not seem to be any Co-op D2D'S,are you lot getting them?

Still got Somerfield@Co-op leaflets for a couple of months after they bought them...but nothing for a while.

[twofaced]

CO-OP leaflets virtually every feckin week.Who wants to shop there as they are to dear.

[stokes11eg]

Train to be a plumber.....to the old folks home....the youngest is about 75.

yes, a few years back ihad to deliver D/D's on contraception to an old folks home!
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[Big Daz]

Co-op use local papers in my town.

[estelle]

the week after they closed the local co-op, I started getting a co-op d2d item every single week. I've raised it with my boss, his boss and the number on the back of the leaflet, I mean, what's the point targeting and area where you've pull out of? Guess what, nothing has happened - it's been a year now, and still every week, co-op leaflet plus 2/3 others. Next week it's the heaviest item we seem to get every three months (can't name it as it'd give away where I work), used to get a whole 3.5p per item, now obviously it's nowt. That was 850 calls, all 3 up flats, at average of 7p per door = £60ish. Those were the days

[kingofmcr]

in the 2 and half years i have been posting junk mail ..farm foods has been one of the most prominant pieces ..the nearest farm foods is 6 miles away tho ..i have never even seen a farm foods store ..and i doubt if anyone i deliver to has either

[dvbuk55]

I was a couple of streets behind a couple of polish guys delivering ikea catalogues and every one of them where sticking out of the doors some people thought i was delivering them when i got their distance.

Yes I think it's the same bast*rd who delivers my newspaper and leaves it sticking out of the l/box when it's p*ssing down

[taurus88]

We get the same d2ds, they're just on permanent rotation. Nothing new. Sky, BT, Farmfoods, etc. It doesn't make a difference to me, but I wish they would all be letter size. Except for council leaflets which is fair enough.