I was duped by a very nice-appearing young man, Michael who said he was selling magazines so he could earn a trip. I generally do NOT fall for these kinds of sales scams, but he appeared so genuine that I did, unfortunately, buy 2 magazine subscriptions. Dumb me! This was in Sept. 2009. My check ...
It's not the first time one of these young men has come to the door selling some kind of subscription, only the last time I bought something I did actually get it. This time, however, I ordered two books from the movie "Cars" that my two kids are both into, at $24 each. Unfortunately it ...
A very pushy young man came to my door right before Thanksgiving asking me to give him money to sponser a child to travel for a sports final play-off game in Hawaii. He was very interested in getting the full amount, which I don't recall exactly, but was in the area of 75-80 dollars. He was very ...
At apprx 7:30 a knock at the door revealed a cute young blonde girl. Her spiel was down to a science. A college student, 19, earning points to go to Europe through magazine subscriptions. Very persuasive. I am an network marketer so we agreed to exchange information. I wrote a check for $50 for a 2 ...
A young man claimed to attend the University of Houston and was a nephew of my neighbor around the corner (he dropped names). He said he was trying to raise money for his baseball team to go on a trip. He had a colored, fold out list of all the magazines available. He even had a book with carbon ...
On Sept two girls came to my home in Smyrna area, they ask my wife to purchase magazine subscription for their club / charity work. They used high pressure sales tactics. Finally my wife bought an magazine subscription for $36 and gave them the check for $36. When we received the returned cashed ...