[Summit] Magazine sellers?

[Robert Mathiesen]

Yes indeed.

The tears are because she is probably far from home, and unless she sells
enough subscriptions, they will not pay her transportation back home, but
leave her high and dry in a strange city.  They may also be coming down hard
on her at the end of each day for not selling enough.

There have been several articles about this horror show in the last few
months, one (I think) in the NY Times.





On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Amanda Woodward <awoodward7 at verizon.net>wrote:

> I did buy a magazine from these folks once and never received it.
>
> I think the young folks are legitmately selling, but are working for
> sleezoids.  I told one young lady that there had been 6 groups so far that
> summer and that even if I wanted to buy from her I couldn't buy that many.
> She really worked at holding back the tears.  I told her that she is working
> for sleezes and she would be better off working a different kind of job.
>
> I think the 'magazine' company is conning both the sales folks and the
> buyer.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* "Hapfra at aol.com" <Hapfra at aol.com>
> *To:* cherrepaha at hotmail.com; summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> *Sent:* Tue, June 7, 2011 3:14:19 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Summit] Magazine sellers?
>
> *This is a good thought---as I too have met up with these people from time
> to time as well...Do you think either the police or the crime watch
> committee would also be interested in this scenario?     Howie*
>
>  In a message dated 6/7/2011 1:45:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> cherrepaha at hotmail.com writes:
>
> In the last few years, I've had several young men come to my door mid-day
> during the summer months.  Ostensibly, these men are selling magazines "to
> improve themselves" through a point system but they never seem to have any
> materials or anything official looking.  My instinct has always been that
> something isn't right about this but I can't quite figure out what it is.
>  Given the recent break-ins, I was wondering if anyone knows anything about
> this?
>
> Sam
>
>
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