A door-to-door sales company says it's helping people in Rotorua rather than harassing them.
A campaign was recently launched in which households can put up "Do Not Knock" stickers outside to deter salespeople. Local organisations said vulnerable people were being pressured into buying products and signing long-term contracts.
But The Good Guys say it offers residents an opportunity to buy products they need that they would not have been able to afford otherwise. The company has 700 customers on its database within the Rotorua district, with nearly all of them repeat customers, general manager Nyree Anderson said.
"The obvious advantage is that people don't have to use transport. There are some customers that live in quite outlying areas, our salesperson travels to Whakatane and Opotiki," she said.
"There are two salespeople in the Rotorua area and I don't think either of them fall into [the aggressive seller] category at all.