My wife had someone come to the door last week, and he had the reflective vest and such, but said he was selling JoCo Landfill/Convenience center stickers. We currently have one so she declined...I told her that was likely a scam to see what we have in the house... I'm sure once they saw the tornado of toys, they figured we're worthless... Good thing the TV sits where you can't see it.
tag number Heres a picture of the tag for the car they are driving. They too came to my house today trying to sell trash service and seemed very sketchy. My neighbor did sign up for their service and payed up front which I don't feel any reputable business would have you do. They told her she will be getting her trash can monday or tuesday so we'll see.
They were in my hood yesterday. Hubby had him write down rates on the post card he was handing out so he could "talk it over with his wife" and I tossed it when I cleaned off the counters.
That's a rental BTW, see the barcode sticker in the bottom left of the window. That's what every rental company uses to keep track of their cars.
I did call Hardee's this morning, The lady who answered the phone said that Anchor Trash rent's office space there but she believes they are a legitimate business. She said that she personally has received multiple calls about them.
They have delivered quite a few containers to our neighborhood with their name branded on them. It appears that they are in fact a business and not a scam. The door to door sales really paid off in my neighborhood! I'm glad this is the case. You can't be to careful!!
Anybody know the rates? Last straw with WM today. They took our recycling container and then treated us like like crap for wanting it back. That's after charging us for 3 months of service we didn't get and only willing to refund 1 month.
I don't know about Anchors rates, but we use ABC Sanitation and we pay $63/qtr for trash pick-up. Not sure what the recycling charges are. They are a family owned company that has not been appropriated by Waste Industries or Waste Management. We've been using them for several years and have never had any service issues. http://abcsanitationnc.com/
We never used a trash pickup service. The Anchor salesman stopped by our house and my husband signed up. They started pickup almost three weeks ago and no problems so far. We signed up for $49.50/qtr. We shall see but no complaints so far.
They are offering both trash and recycling in our neighborhood for $50 and Waste Industries has started matching their price.
The Anchor Trash rep stopped by my home yesterday. He did his sales pitch thing, said the rates were $4.00/week and of course we turned him down. The fellow was very cordial, not pushy, had a reflective vest on and also had a photograph ID. I think this is a startup company in this area just trying to get a piece of the pie. Why not!
Guys and gals, I'm just as guilty as being overly-suspicious at times as well, but we all have to take a step back and avoid snap judgments when faced with certain situations, else we run the risk of being (becoming worse about being) too beholden to the headlines of terror, evil, and general torment. 95% of everything you see that you think is suspicious is perfectly benign. We never hear news reports of actual businesses doing door to door marketing, only scams. Be smarter than a wral headline. Use common sense. Extremely small/startup businesses often (usually) have limited resources. This seems like a "suspect" marketing plan, but based on the increasingly-positive comments here, it seems like it's a legit business. We should always give people and situations the benefit of the doubt, and we should CERTAINLY be erring on the side of supporting small businesses, especially local ones that we can build relationships with. I haven't been solicited by these people - and I hate D2D solicitations as well - BUT, WM keeps raising rates and their customer service keeps getting less friendly, so if they come to my neighborhood, and can offer trash and recycling under $50 bucks a quarter, they'll get my business. So far, it hasn't been worth my while to switch just to save $10 bucks, and WM is certainly banking on this. If someone can save me $20+ and provide equal service, no brainer here Also, many (probably most) small businesses use web developers outside the state, or at least the area. There are web designers everywhere, and many place ads locally, etc. No cause for alarm
