I live on Arredondo Drive in Santiago Village and this is to warn all my neighbors of a possible problem.
They (CenturyLink supposedly) are back and in their usual form. This afternoon about 6:00pm, a woman (short stature, white shirt, tan shorts, carrying a clipboard) came to the door purporting to be from CenturyLink and wanted to discuss Prism. She said according to her list (she had a big spreadsheet of names and addresses on her clipboard), we had "one of our products." I said actually I had all three - bundled phone, Internet, and DishTV. She wasn't aware of that and made a note of it. Oops, I shouldn't have told her maybe.
She then noticed/heard my wife rattling dishes in the Kitchen and said "Oh, I can tell your wife must be preparing supper. How long will that take and I can come back then and we can talk about converting you to Prism." While saying that, she was trying to look past/around me into the house. I moved to back her away from the front door and told her we were thinking about Prism and might go in to the office (near Target) but we weren't going to be pressured into anything, particularly by a door-to-door person. BTW, at no time did she show or offer to show any kind of CenturyLink identification. And, no her white shirt had no CenturyLink logo on it. Hmmmmm, kind of strange there.
Well I finally ran her off and said that maybe I wouldn't EVER convert to CenturyLink with the kind of pressure she was using to get us to talk with her. I'm afraid my language got a little raw at that point (hope she was offended). I called Community Watch to report the solicitation going on. CW thanked me and dispatched a vehicle to find the person. CW also advised me that if they show up again to call 911 while the solicitor was still present and report a trespasser. Not sure 911 is quite right (not life threatening) but at least the police Non-emergency number.
Is this person really soliciting for CenturyLink or did she just want to get a look at what stuff we had in the house? Probably was an independent working on commission for CenturyLink but we don't know. Hope this helps anyone that gets a visit by these people.
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