What do you do when a salesman makes an attempt on your wallet?

I just blow 'em off and keep on walkin. Dafuq man, do I look like I have money!?! Hahahah! The answer to that is no. Why am I even on this store??

Ask them lots of questions about the labor laws of the country the product comes from. Test them in geography as well...

Not really, but now I think I might.

An American salesman once made an attempt on my wallet. In return I made an attempt on his life. The process involved Molotov cocktails. Lots of Molotov cocktails. I sent him as high as the prices of his merchandise : 50 metres up in the sky, followed by a plume of fire and with Molotov cocktail shrapnel embedded in his behind. I then took him to Russian court and sued him for the wastage good Molotov cocktails.

I personaly say"you door to door salesmen are like girl scouts...selling a bunch of crap that tastes like shit." than i gently close the door and throw a rock out an open window as they walk away.

I try to sell THEM something!

I used to let them get through it and then politely express disinterest. But I started to wonder if letting them waste their time was impolite. They probably get so many refusals that they don't take it personally and it's actually better not to let them waste their time. What I generally do now is hold my hand up, palm towards them, as the symbol meaning "Stop" and say, "No, thank you, but I'm not interested" and then walk off.

I've gotten some free dinners by sitting through a 40 minute timeshare presentation and making my own 10 minute presentation about how I really don't want or need a timeshare...

(And they laid out so many options, points and reward systems, fast financing, payment systems, tie-ins with airlines & disney-ish stuff, and the ever-present upsell, that you'd need to spend 4 hours a day of homework to get the most out of it if you did sign up).

...and thanks for your time, now where's my dinner coupon?

Pretend I already own whatever they are selling.

i say thanks but no thanks then talk about the weather

I get this a lot when I go ashore (in the West Indies) the first couple of times. Depends on the sales pitch and the person pitching. Most of the time my response goes like, "Mon, I not be another tourist. I be livin' on de island. If I need any-ting, I be lettin' y' know." and walk away. By the end of a week or so, they're usually greeting me as "Sistah" and not bugging me so much. In fact, some of them even become fun friends.

Vomit on their shoes.

Since Spanish and French were my first languages, I can get away pretty easily by pretending not to understand.

What works for me in difficult situations is I say I have to make a bowel movement and if they could point me to a nearby toilet.

No one denies anyone already inside a building toilet access. Food they will deny, toilet never. Just as ppl will never deny even a pauper a burial. Medical services will be denied, burial never.

I politely interrupt their sales pitch and tell them that I am not interested.

this has happened once to me when i was getting a tv service and the guy kept wanting me to get the full
deal and i didn't want the full high priced deal because it cost to damn much for channels that were just repeat hd channels so why would i want that for.

I don't think this has ever happened to me before. I suppose that you could say something similar happened to me when I was France. My tour group was hanging around near the Eiffel Tower and our guide warned us merchants because they could be somewhat "aggressive" on getting people to buy things so, we were told to either firmly say "No" or ignore them and go on about our business. I can't remember if the incident I encountered happened after we had just gotten off the bus or if it happened we were going to leave. Either way, I bumped into this French woman with a clipboard, who after some difficulty I realized that she was deaf. She wanted me to sign the clipboard and I'm guessing that it had something to with benefiting deaf people. Well, I tried to tell her that I wasn't interested in signing it and nor did I live in the area so, there was very little point in me doing so. The problem was that there was a language barrier between us. She spoke French and knew Sign Language whereas, I had forgotten my sign language and I only spoke English! There I was trying my best not to hurt this feelings and reach some level of understanding when my grandmother comes out of nowhere acts like a cunt. She started to bully this woman. She demeaned the poor thing in front of everyone and when she was done being a jackass, the woman looked like she on the verge of tears! I actually felt like comforting her which is rare because I rarely feel that way towards people.

As for yourself, I suggest 1. Punching and kicking in the air. Pretend that you are a performing martial arts. I randomly did this once... and well, the boy thought I was weird from then one... If that doesn't that make them think that you are insane and don't want to be bothered, I don't know what will.

I don't say anything, I knock his fucking teeth out. I don't have time or patience for shit like that and if they're smart, they'll take get that hint.

Usually, I will just stop them after the first few words, say "No thank you :)" and just keep walking.

However, I have been sucked into listening to them when I was particularly tired and not willing enough to be rude and stop them.

They usually expect to be blown off, it's not that big of a deal.

I enjoyed your options, OP :)

By your title, I thought the salesman was trying to steal the wallet. Lol.

I have gotten suckered in to listening to their spiel a few times. I usually don't buy anything though.

Vacuum his face off.

Lol at the option "pretend you don't speak the language"! That would be hilarious. Most of your options are hilarious, though! I love stuff like this, hah. Or even just not saying anything and blankly staring at them. Hahaha! I don't know why I find people's embarrassment so funny. I'm imagining all sorts of scenarios. Like the person starts crying and then shouting at the salesman in gibberish. Or quacking at them. Or woofing!:D

"Would you be intere-"

"WOOF! WOOOOOF! GGRRRR!":@

:O

Vacuuming their face off always works, though.

Grrrrr!