Unsatisfactory solicitation experience from these ...

Unsatisfactory solicitation experience from these guys. A guy with a Power Remodeling jacket came to my door, offering a free roofing estimate. He said that Power was working nearby, and after I told him a new roof was not in the budget at the moment, implied that I could pocket the estimate until needed. I then verified the address and gave him my name and phone number. He wrote all of this down. I told him I needed to get back to work and expressed irritation at continued questions.

Then he called into his office, and handed me his phone, and a gal at the office proceeded to ask me all the same questions over again! (Why couldn't the guy at the door simply relay this information after finishing with me?) I expressed increasing irritation. When she then tried to get my email address and my consent to receive robo-contacts by phone and email, I hung up, gave him back his phone, and closed the door on him.

Look folks, if you want to offer a free estimate, don't make the customer work for it. Twice. And don't data mine me.

-- Postscript: Jeez, seeing Timothy Nicoletti's review two reviews down, I'm glad I didn't waste any more time with them. This all seems less a free-estimate strategy and more an excuse-for-a-hard-sell strategy. Feels like false pretenses. Pretty icky experience.