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emerald212 wrote:
It’s a scam. Groups of young-looking people go around the country, selling magazines, pretending to get the money to go to school. They are actually paid on commission and have no intention of going to college. That’s just their “sales” line. I know this because I met one of them once and dated him a few times. He was trying to recruit me to go with him and do it too. I guess they make lots of money because people are taken in by their “story.”
If it’s a neighborhood kid, and it’s anything but magazines, I would probably order something. But I know the magazine thing is a scam.
They don’t actually make that much money, but I bet its all under the table.
I would help but I am just to tired to get out of bed today~
Engaged to a WeaselWhat’s really fun to do to the religious people is to try and convert them to some random religious cult and make it sound just like theirs.
I would help but I am just to tired to get out of bed today~
Engaged to a WeaselWow, glad they don’t have that scam where I live. There are a ton of kids that belong to a couple a few blocks away that keep coming to the door with order forms “from school” for a “year end trip fundraiser”. You pay them now and they’ll give you the chocolate, cheese, cookie dough or whatever a couple months later…except everyone in town knows these kids don’t go to school, and you’ll never get what you ordered. The parents just send their little kids out scamming all day.
I had to get nasty with a religious woman that kept coming to my door every week trying to save me. Silly me for trying to politely turn her away the first time…apparently that’s an invitation to try harder next time 🙄
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Haha! Good job, Necron. 😆 😆
We don’t have a lot of that over here. Once in a blue moon a Jehovah’s Witness will stop by, but it’s been years since we had a solicitor of anything come by.As a kid, I HATED going door to door. So now, I bring in whatever the school sells at work.
Necron, way to go!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmGreater Basilisk wrote:Haha! Good job, Necron. 😆 😆
We don’t have a lot of that over here. Once in a blue moon a Jehovah’s Witness will stop by, but it’s been years since we had a solicitor of anything come by.I live in an apartment building and the jehovah’s have started coming here! They go apartment to apartment usually at like 7 in the morning so no one gets up to answer the door anyhow lol
Dealing with the religious types:
Go to your local relion store and buy some cheap books, when they knock on your door start handing your literature to them, trade if you can, then hand of your new stuff to the next one that comes along. 😆
My mom grew up in a small town and the religious soliciters used to come to town once a month to go door to door and hand stuff out nad try to ‘save’ you. So my uncle collected a bunch of grandmas prayer cards and told them that he would take their stuff if they would take his. They didn’t come back for awhile, offended that he woulf try to convert them 🙄
I usually tell them I have my own religion and that I’m not interested. Having a big dog that I have to hold by the collar so he won’t escape (He’d probably lick them to death but they don’t know that) helps now too.
I remember being running late when I was in college and running for the bus and having a couple of them block the side walk on me and ask if I’d been saved etc. I yelled at them with a few choice words and told them they were going to need saving from me if I missed my bus.
Gotta love the Girl Scouts with their thin mints!
We had a horrible case here in NJ several years ago where a boy selling wrapping paper cut through some woods (his parents had told him to stay on their block). He went to a house where a disturbed 16 year old had been left alone. The 16 year old raped and then strangled the younger boy with a telephone cord. Turned out the parents of the older boy tried to have him committed the week before but a judge said there wasn’t enough evidence he was a danger. 😥 So the parents needed a break and went to AC. It was a tragedy on so many levels – I think it made the national news. It really cut down on groups sending kids door to door.
Among many other things one very upsetting part was that the parents of the murdered child got flack for accepting a plea bargain. If it had gone to trial the older kid probably would have gotten a much longer sentence. The father explained that 1) they really didn’t want to sit in a court and listen to all the gruesome details of how their son had died and 2) this way they knew the boy was getting jail time. You never know once things go to trial. I totally didn’t understand how people could heap scorn on the parents’ heads – they made the decision that they could live with.
ruffian wrote:Dealing with the religious types:
Go to your local relion store and buy some cheap books, when they knock on your door start handing your literature to them, trade if you can, then hand of your new stuff to the next one that comes along. 😆
LOL good idea! Except the only religion that’s ever came is jehovah’s. Although we did get lots of mail from satinists once wanting donations to build some kind of worship place!!
It’s easy to pass judgment on experiences that aren’t yours, unfortunately. They did what they thought was best and if they’re satisfied, that’s all that matters.
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