[sammyg2]

telephone solicitation, as well as door to door solicitation, is low-life and sleazy.
Anyone who participates in that activity or uses that type of activity as part of a marketing strategy is asking to be treated poorly IMO.

no sympathy here although I would make sure the doors and windows are locked tight when you leave.

BTW, a couple years ago a guy rang my door bell and tried to sell me a home security system.
I said no thank you and started closing the door. At that point I was neither rude of cordial, just letting him know I was not interested and that he was wasting his time.

He reached out and put his hand up and stopped me from closing the door and moved toward me as if to intimidate. Big mistake.
I went off and backed him down the walk toward the street before he turned around and skedaddled. Two of the neighbors came out to see what all the commotion was.

Not 5 minutes later my phone rang and the caller hung up. then it did it again. And again.
(i have an unlisted number BTW).
I let it go to voice mail a couple times before getting my wife to answer the phone; "Orange Police Department, how may I direct your call?"
That was the end of it. Evidently he was an idiot in addition to being a coward and a parasite.

But the question remains, how did that scumbag get my phone number? Must have been on some list.