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SANTAQUIN — Police received several complaints of a pushy door-to-door saleswoman who was reportedly physically aggressive in a Santaquin neighborhood.
Numerous complaints spurred police to send out a warning. They knock on the door, start a short conversation and before the homeowner realizes it, they've entered the home.
On Monday, Santaquin resident Lyndsie Teeples said a saleswoman named Jessica Heard with Advantage Wonder Cleaner who told her she was selling cleaning supplies was inside her house within a few minutes.
“She just walked in and I moved to the side and she just walked straight to my living room,” Teeples said.
Heard started cleaning the windows. She then went into the bathroom and sprayed and wiped down the shower. She did all of this without asking permission, Teeples said.
“She walked right into the shower and started spraying the shower. She had kind of seen my whole house,” Teeples said.
Teeples said Heard only left when Teeples paid her $40 in cash. A few houses down the street, the same woman targeted another neighbor.
"I had my door just barely open while talking to her, and she sprayed under my door, so she tried to push my door open, and I closed it again," said Kimberly Savage.
It took Savage telling the woman to leave several times before she finally walked away.
Sgt. Rodney Hurst with the Santaquin Police Department said that what Heard was doing isn’t illegal. He explained the sales tactic.
“Once they make entry, then the people feel more obligated to listen to the sales pitch,” Hurst said.
It's all a sales tactic, but it made the residents uneasy.
"To physically have a stranger push her away into your house, and you're a mom home alone with your kids and don't know what their intent is- it's a little scary," said Savage.
Police recommend if a forceful salesman comes to your home close the door. If they enter and refuse to leave then call police.
Hurst also said a licensed business will either have a badge or a nametag identifying who they are.
