We had the same thing happen yesterday and did not think anything about it until now!!!
We had a gentleman come into our yard ( Portland St) yesterday, handing my husband the can of air freshener, with a similar story, but he did have more to say. He said he had a college student in his car that wanted to do a "Kirby" vacumm demostration. He continued on that the student gets $50.00 for every demostation he does, even if the vacumm is not purchased. My husband told him we were not interested and he kept repeating that this kid would get $50.00 just to run the vacumm in our home. Once again he was encouraged to leave our yard, which he had just opened our gate and walked right in un-invited with two dogs in the yard, and when he decided to leave he told my husband to give him the air freshener back...........I would encourage everyone to be aware of this person and to be very careful not to allow anyone to just walk into their home offering a vacumm demonstation while the other possibly would rummage through your possessions with the vacumm noise drowning out his noise...............
Have a wonderful day !!!
Jean
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:00:17 -0400
> From: laurelb+@pitt.edu
> To: neighborhood@highlandparkpa.com
> Subject: [Highland Park] Odd solicitation?
>
> A man came to my door Thursday evening, waved a can of Air Wick air
> freshener at me and said something about "working in the neighborhood" and
> did I use this kind of stuff? My impression was that he was trying to sell
> me something but he had no sample bag or papers. When I told him no, and
> that I was busy, he seemed to want to linger. Luckily, my rather large dogs
> were both agitated so I told him I had to go.
> He was white, bald(ing), 30's-40's wearing khakis and perhaps a dress shirt.
> Anyone have a similar experience?
>
> Laurel on Cordova Road
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