Dubious salesman irks housewife
By Rosli Abidin Yahya 

Door-to-door product introduction is definitely an effective marketing tool, especially when introducing new brands or building up customer rapport. However reaching-out to the customers on an emotional level by such salesmen can actually irk housewives who have to entertain these "mobile sales persons" when their husbands are at work.

At least one such salesperson has not only irked a housewife but also annoyed her so much as the salesman started to flirt with her, with an obviously twisted intention.

She said the salesman came knocking and when she opened the door she found a person trying hard to make her purchase an air filter.

"I did not let him come inside the house because my husband is working so he decided to introduce the product on the veranda.

"When I refused to buy he started talking about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and how the product can cleanse the air inside my house.

"He then said it is advisable to purchase because I may die from SARS and my husband would miss me dearly if I die," she said.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin