Launched last month by the Office of Fair Trading, Your Doorstep, Your Decision is a campaign to promote awareness of rogue doorstep sellers that is especially aimed at the elderly and to educate people about how they can protect themselves.

Buying goods or services in your home or on your doorstep maybe convenient but rogue doorstep trading is a serious problem in the UK:

- people can be pressurised into buying something they don't want, that's not good value for money or is of poor quality
- over 3,500 complaints about uninvited doorstep sales approaches were received in the first seven months of this year alone according to Consumer Direct
- home repairs and services are the top doorstep selling complaints (particularly during the winter months rogue traders offer repairs to protect homes against the elements)

So to find out more about the campaign you can request a free booklet by calling the Office of Fair Trading's mailing house on 0800 389 3158 (quote product code OFT1116 or OFT1116w for a bi-lingual (welsh/english) version) or check out their website at www.oft.gov.uk/doorstepselling