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Pastimes : The "Zimmerman" File
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (625)7/30/2013 1:49:00 PM
From: diana g  Read Replies (2) of 671
 
I agree that this is a shabby sales-trick but I think it is less egregious than theft. I am sure there are some thieves among the kids, but I think most are themselves victims in these scams. They were recruited to do door-to-door sales while traveling in a group. A kid who was trying for a career as a thief would not see this as an opportunity. The kids are promised by recruiters that they will make money on these sales trips but then the kids find themselves far from home with no way to get home making much less money than they were told to expect, being pushed to make sales and having their earnings cut by fees and expenses charged them by the overseers. The people running these operations know that a young poor kid will often be seen with pity and the promoters take advantage of that by recruiting these kids for door-to-door sales operations that confront homeowners with a poor kid on their doorstep who is trying to make money in an honest way. The homeowner pays too much for the widget because he wants to help the kid. The sales-overseer and the promoters take the lions share of the profits and the kids get a pittance. The real villains aren't there on the doorstep. The kids are taught ways to trick people into buying, and they do that, but if we were in their shoes, what would we do?

MM wrote:
No doubt, but that doesn't make it any more acceptable.
This could simply be a sales tactic taught and recommended by the crew chiefs of groups of kids who are selling door-to-door in a neighborhood and changing neighborhoods day by day.
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