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is this illegal?
is this illegal?
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
No this is not illegal. This is a marketing program that starts with a package delivery for you as our way of saying hello and introduce our company to the neighborhood. If we miss you one week, we come out the next week and leave a sticker on the homes that we were unable to catch you at home. So the day we put the sticker out we are not delivering the gift that day. We leave our number and when you call we set up a time to deliver you gift and advertise our products. No purchase necessary to receive your gifts, just a few minutes of your time. I hope this helps you and now you will know that this is not illegal
Marketing Program
Marketing Program
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
To all of those who have questions about our package delivery notices, our program works like this. On any given week we are select neighborhoods trying to meet the homewoners with a package of gifts that vary from week to week. If we do not catch someone at home, a few days later we will leave a sticker notice that we were in the neighborhood trying to drop off a package to you and if you call us, we can get that too you. Again, the packages we give away vary from week to week, and when you call us we set up a time to bring out the package and also we do a quick series of water tests on you drinking water. The tests retail at 175 dollars however we provide these free of charge
marketing program (cont)
marketing program (cont)
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
and we give you the results right on the spot. The purpose of the test are simply to advertise our company to the neighborhood. There is no obligation to buy anything, in fact we are mainly interested in your comments and opinions on the testing, and if you are ever in the market for any of our many products, you would remember our company first since we gave you the nice gifts. I hope anyone with any questions about our program will read this before ignorantly going on some blog site and spewing out false statements and totally incorrect caraterizations about our company. Thank you to all the nice homeowners who have participted, close to 1000 to date.
Ted
Ted
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
If you are so nice why don't you list your address and name on the sticker?
carey
carey
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
I'm in agreement with Ted... sounds like a ridiculous scheme. Even if it's not illegal, it is pretty cheesy to not be transparent in your purposes. The notes make it seem as though we have missed a UPS or FedEx package, not some random "gifts." And, why can't you even tell us what the name of your "company" is?

A joke!
Jon
Jon
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
and whats all of this, "We want to come into your home and give you a free water test." Sounds like you're trying to scope the place out to me... see if there's anything worth stealing.  Sounds like this borders on mail fraud to me - and that's why there is no company name listed and a reverse phone number lookup on yellowpages.com for businesses returns no results.
Tony
Tony
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
Got one in Columbus.

You do not leave things like this on people's doors.  At least make them more easily removed so they can be tossed directly into the trash.

Definitely hoodwinking people into thinking it's something they actually want.
Jeff
Jeff
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
So, when my neighborhood has huge signs that say "NO SOLICITING", you feel that you are still allowed to put these stickers on our doors.  

Seems like some very shady company.
Franklin Twnshp
Franklin Twnshp
2011-06-06 20:45:59
Unknown
I came home and had this note on my door too. Is this illegal? I don't want someone misleading me to gain access to my home.
disappointed
disappointed
2009-05-12 21:40:50
Unknown
We got the same mysterious "gift package undelivered" yellow note stuck to our door, even though my wife and I were home all day that day, they must have just snuck up and stuck it on the door.  My wife called the company and they promised a $100 gift card to either speedway or walmart of we listened to their schpiel about a water filtration system so she set up the appointment.

A relatively nice guy came over and explained their system and did a sales pitch, but he was either mistrained or outright wrong as he didn't understand the chemical tests that he performed. Our misguided salesperson tried to tell us that our water was full of feces, acting as though a bonding agent to calcium carbonate was actually bonding to fecal matter (when I asked him, he didn't even know what calcium carbonate was!).  I don't think that he was outright lying, he was likely just lied to in his training and didn't know any better.

Anywho, we turned him down and received not a $100 gift card of any sort, but a "pre-paid postage" card to send in not for a gift card, but for a GROCERY COUPON BOOK!  

To top it off the card was addressed to 5602 ELMWOOD AVE SUITE 106
INDIANAPOLIS, IN *46203... except that there WAS NO PREPAID postage on the card, so we supplied our own stamp.

Today we got the card returned as undeliverable as apparently the company has moved and left no forwarding address.

From their contact methods, to their lies about compensation for listening to their sales pitch, to their lies during the sales pitch, to their lies about the prepaid postage card, to their lies about where to send the prepaid postage card, there is nothing about this business that is not shady.
Want to get even?
Want to get even?
2009-01-30 02:53:03
Unknown
Leave the sticker on your door.  Call the number and schedule an appointment.  When the losers show up tell them to take the f&*@ing sticker off of the door, get off the property, and don't ever come back.
Greenwood Area as Well
Greenwood Area as Well
2008-09-15 23:17:34
Unknown
Got this a week ago.  I was home one day on a day off. Earlier that day I could have sworn I saw nothing on my door and then a little later I found the sticker there.  I thought maybe I just didn't hear the doorbell, but other comments here reassure me of my first notion that they didn't really knock or ring the doorbell and had just left the yellow sticker.  I thought to myself "What package was I supposed to recieve?"  Then I looked at the sticker closely and realized there was no indication of who was trying to deliver this and also the sticker seemed generic in that it was prechecked for me to call their phone number.  The other two options were to redeliver on a certain date and the other was to pick up at the office.  What office!  There's no address or anything to identify where I would even pick it up if this option were checked.  I smelled BS.  I called the number and it rang for literally 2 minutes and then I hung up (you would think after a couple of rings you would get some sort of machine or a someone asking me if I could hold).  I then started to get the impression that this was not even a legitimate company but some loser living out of a trailer or his mom's basement that decided to try to pull a scam.  I wasn't completely correct but any business this unprofessional and deceitful should not receive any business.

A couple of suggestions to help your consumer affairs before you end up extinct.  Get voicemail and some sort of operating system to handle your phone calls.  Also, the idea of going door to door to sell your product is OK (as long as you have a permit to do so), but you should be upfront and tell people what it is consumers are calling on and not wasting their time with this BS.  You shouldn't say they had missed a package delivery when they aren't expecting anything (or maybe they are and you're wasting their time).  Plus if you're going to act like you are trying to deliver a package, you should at least try to see if someone would greet you at the front door.  And lastly, you and your employees need to learn how to deal with consumers.  You guys are blaming the them for being upset instead of looking in the mirror and seeing if maybe you are wrong for your marketing ploy.  Legal or not, this is shi**y consumer affairs.
Greenwood area
Greenwood area
2008-08-30 23:43:55
Unknown
How do you know??????????
greenwood area
greenwood area
2008-08-30 23:41:46
Unknown
I have a Job and have been there 16 years!! what about you???????????????
Greenwood area
Greenwood area
2008-08-30 23:28:52
Unknown
had yellow sticker on door not enough info on it to be legit unless they are afraid to knock on peoples door I was home.Dont trust any one who is afraid to say who they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dewymooneve
Dewymooneve
2008-08-22 16:27:10
Telemarketer
I also received this Delivery notice on my door .... What was odd was I was at home at the time they supposedly :tried to deliver MY package" I don't think it is honest to try to lure in buyers by such a sneaky approach. After calling the number and finding out it is "NOT" a delivery company I chose to look up this number on the net before i proceeded any farther.. I found alot of different complaint about this number and companies way of advertising. I for one feel like it is a SCAM. Point 1. I was home when this sticker was placed on my door. 2. The package you are receiving is a advertising ploy it is sad because many of the elderly will fall for this and have these people come in their home after a scamming note on a door
shannon
shannon
2008-08-21 19:58:24
Unknown
YOU ARE HILARIOUS
Southsider MP
Southsider MP
2008-08-21 11:57:02
Unknown
Whew - good thing there's this website. I nearly called in, but noticed there wasn't a company name on the label, so I Googled their phone number, and sure enough it's a deceitful marketing ploy. Thanks, everyone.
AyWhat...
AyWhat...
2008-08-08 22:14:10
Unknown
and soliciting.
LeagleSmeagle
LeagleSmeagle
2008-08-08 22:12:13
Unknown
Nothing wrong with sales, it is a honorable venture! It has put food on my table. On the other hand, attempting to hood-wink people into supposing that you are a UPS, FedEx or other general delivery, when in fact you are a company that sells a specific product for which the recipient of the message on their door is unaware, is deception plain and simple.  

Put all the lip stick you want on that pig!!!
Same Deal
Same Deal
2008-08-08 22:10:02
Unknown
Same deal for me, my was orange.  These are unethical means, not to mention that they cause long term damage to Eco-Waters reputation, to inform people of their products...
Cheer Leader
Cheer Leader
2008-08-08 22:06:58
Unknown
You go get em!!! Ms Stubborn! Tired Mom, Stubborn Larry, myself and of the interrupted public hear you load and clear. And the fellow typing in CAPS, well, he/she appears to be showing guilt through anger.  Sure, they sell allot of people with these tactics. That doesn't mean that their tactics are ethical.
Curious
Curious
2008-08-08 21:58:59
Unknown
Do you folks, or your up-line command, sell the phone numbers that you harvest from the call-ins? We are on a no-call list.  

I noticed that the check mark was printed which would indicate that this was a campaign. Incidentally, I was home all day and did have a visiting neighbor who knocked. If they wanted to leave me something they could have spoken with me by knocking.

Nothing wrong with sales, it is a honorable venture! It has put food on my table. On the other hand, attempting to hood-wink people into supposing that you are a UPS, FedEx or other general delivery, when in fact you are a company that sells a specific product for which the recipient of the message on their door is unaware, is deception plain and simple.  

Put all the lip stick you want on that pig!!!
Concerned
Concerned
2008-08-08 21:42:04
Unknown
Before you go condemning others about spelling, consider your own idiosyncrasies. By the way, I apologize for having to address your comments, so let us stay with the topic at hand ...
Concerned Consumer
Concerned Consumer
2008-08-01 22:19:32
Unknown
Though your marketing practice is legal and your concern regarding what water our families drink is appreciated, the responding blogs to concerned citizens remarks are very unprofessional and do not reflect well on your company. It appears the respondents get their direction from you considering the sarcasm present in your response. Citizens have a very valid reason for being concerned about this marketing technique considering the violence present in our society.  Your stickers have contributed to the ever-present fear and it seems you would be a little more apologetic rather than defensive. I will be very vocal against your company and will make sure your attitude is noted by the BBB and A.G.
The law...
The law...
2008-08-01 22:18:51
Unknown
...is called "Trespassing".
Concerned Consumer
Concerned Consumer
2008-08-01 22:05:50
Unknown
All I can say about the responses to the negative blogs for this marketing technique is that I certainly will not do business with a company that allows such unprofessional responses. Maybe you should go back to Marketing class and learn how to get a consumer's attention and get their business.  It is not by blasting potential customers on a very public blog. Maybe the owner of the company better monitor his employees better or teach them how to respond to negative remarks.  You ever heard the saying "you get more with honey than vinegar?"  Well maybe you should hear it.
Annie
Annie
2008-07-22 21:36:19
Unknown
hello Woof,
Your message made me chuckle. I hope they come to your neighborhood too.   In all seriousness these people who leave unidentified stickers or notes should be prosecuted.  It is scarey in a world like we have today.   I don't even answer my door anymore.  Everyone should beware.   Any legitate company would put their name on the sticker.
Annie
Annie
2008-07-22 21:32:40
Unknown
hello Woof,
Your message made me chuckle.   In all seriousness these people who leave unidentified stickers or notes should be prosecuted.  It is scarey in a world like we have today.   I don't even answer my door anymore.  Everyone should beware.   Any legitate company would put their name on the sticker.
Bill
Bill
2008-07-18 20:48:54
Unknown
If they are so honest why don't they leave the owner's name, address of the company, and maybe a website. Instead I got a sticker that makes it look like I'm getting a package. I'm turning this into the attorney general's office regardless. It's dishonest regardless of it they say "Jesus loves me".
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