I recently had a discussion with a lady that ran a salon. She previously had fliers printed and distributed by a company. They had left-over fliers and gave them to her. I got one on my door, despite the legal signage to post no bills. I called the number on the flier for the advertising company and they advised they had not put them out, but he told me the ladies name and decided maybe for their future protection they would not let the end user have fliers to distribute on their own if they had the advertising company name on them (smart move.)
I contacted the salon and asked for the lady. She told me she didn't know the laws on it and just hired some people to do the distribution. They had not gotten a permit and also didn't know to not put them on doors with the signage. She was Asian, and said the people she hired she had to use an interpreter to talk to (assuming she hired Hispanics as she spoke good English) so there was a language barrier. Anyway, I told her she was subject to a $1000 fine if the city caught her distributing them without a permit and a $500 per residence fine for each flier improperly posted. I advised if they showed up in the neighborhood again I would turn the issue over to the city. She was nice about the issue or I probably would have been on the phone with the city.
I do the same thing with big companies. if they won't leave me alone from phone calls of door hangers, I advise they can either provide me something in return for them leaving the flier or phone call, or I will seek legal restitution. Got $500 one time from an alarm company that wouldn't quit calling, but that is another story for another day.
