Ardent Pest Control

If their salesmanship is any reflection of their ability to control pests, I would not expect much from this company. I was out doing yard work on Saturday and two young guys walked into my yard and one of them started on this over-​the-​top pitch about how he needed just ONE MORE house in my neighborhood to complete a trip out to help [insert random neighbor name 1] and [insert random neighbor name 2] with their pest control needs. He walked up to my house and began explaining how horrible fleas, tickets, spiders, termites, ants, etc are in the area and how they get into the house and cause full blow infestations, etc. It was a fear marketing ladened user car sales approach that frankly rubbed me the wrong way. At what point does a company realize that no one actually wants to be sold to?
I was patient and let him continue his monologue until I asked if they had any fact sheet about the chemicals they use. Of course they didn’t but according to him, they were state of the art, hospital grade, just came out a couple years ago. Now I feel like I’m in an oxyclean commercial. He couldn’t even provide me a website to visit to learn more. He kept saying he could bring out the information at the first visit. I told him my wife has several health issues and we have dogs and I am not signing up for anything that is going to harm them. I asked again for information on the chemicals, again same spiel. I asked him to leave his info and I would talk to my wife. He proceeds to question me. «What do you need to speak with your wife about? Aren’t bugs the man’s thing?» Remember I have already told him she has health problems and I have been polite up to this point but this to me was a clear overstep. After a few more circles around, I finally said, Ok, you’re done, you can leave now in which he continues to stand there and try to get me to sign up. I finally had to yell an expletive or two before he finally walked away.
Experiences like this not only make me not want to use companies like this, but to actually inconvenience myself to educate other people on my experience in hopes that they won’t either. Seriously, if I have to ever listen to another pitch like that, there better be a 3 day trip to my choice of Orlando or Las Vegas.

It is illegal to solicit door to door without a city permit, but this company allows it. When asked to show the permit, the rep waved a badge in front of me, not expecting me to actually look at it. It was a company badge for Ardent Pest Control. When I pointed out it was NOT a city permit, I got the typical «oh, my boss handles the permits».
Follow the law & sell your service honestly.