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NY Times had a frightening in-depth article on them the other day.
I'm only one page and half the video through, but so far, it's a good read/watch.
For Youths, a Grim Tour on Magazine Crews (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/us/21magcrew.html?ex=1329800400&en=73f0b63efaf9a910&ei=5124&partner=facebook&exprod=facebook)
Hamhock
2/23/2007, 05:23 PM
i haven't read teh article. but i can tell you i got totally screwed by one (not in a dear penthouse sort of way). i spent over $100 and never got a single issue of anything i ordered.
compassion never got anyone anywhere.
sanantoniosooner
2/23/2007, 05:27 PM
Most of them are out of work software engineers.
yermom
2/23/2007, 05:33 PM
Most of them are out of work software engineers.
and don't know anything about money laundering :mad:
NormanPride
2/23/2007, 05:33 PM
'Man, what am I gonna do with 50 subscriptions to Vibe?"
yermom
2/23/2007, 05:37 PM
man, how do things always come back to SicEm? ;)
those girls probably were pretty desperate...
i haven't read teh article. but i can tell you i got totally screwed by one (not in a dear penthouse sort of way). i spent over $100 and never got a single issue of anything i ordered. From the article:
A majority of former crew members said that while they occasionally made several hundred dollars a week, most of the time they received little more than the daily allowance of $15, while the rest of their earnings stayed on the books to cover expenses. Many also said that subscriptions for magazines were never actually fulfilled.
Reading that article made me have flashbacks to this point in my life (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showpost.php?p=559052&postcount=120).
mdklatt
2/23/2007, 05:52 PM
In a moment of weakness (I usually tell solicitors to **** off, dip****), I renewed a magazine subscription from one of those kids once. I didn't have any problems, though.
soonerboomer93
2/23/2007, 06:03 PM
Mr. Smith said he viewed most stories of drug use and physical abuse as exaggerations. “I don’t put a lot of stock in them because, to be brutally frank with you, abuse is like beauty. It’s in the eyes of the beholder,” he said
****in scum
The only kids I give the time of day to are the local kids I know selling stuff for their school groups.
GottaHavePride
2/23/2007, 09:01 PM
Yeah, we gave a kid from Noble high school $20 for some coupons because they were selling them to raise money for baseball equipment. Most others we turn away.
soonerboomer93
2/23/2007, 09:08 PM
I won't even let them into my house, heck, they're lucky if I answer the door
fyi front door camera's = greatness
Frozen Sooner
2/23/2007, 09:12 PM
I generally holler at them to get off my damn lawn.
Then I chuck rocks at them until I actually get one in the head.
If you can't read a "No Solicitors" sign, you're certainly not intelligent enough to sell me a magazine.
I remember one time I told a kid "Not interested" three times and he kept trying to talk. I shut the door in his face and he sat out there for five minutes asking why I shut the door.
King Crimson
2/23/2007, 10:31 PM
oh, i don't know. i hung out one afternoon with a young black kid selling mags who he just had had enough. enough of standing on whitey's door knocking on it as a tall gangly black kid from Detroit....in lily white Boulder, Colorado. he said: ain't doing anymore....i might as well be wearing a t-shirt that says i'm a young brother and i wanna **** yer daughter. we drank a few beers and hung out. good kid. funny as hell. sent me a sub to Vibe too.
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