door to door Wrote:
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> Did you ever see who tries to sells you those
> magazines?
I literally pity those guys - they are victims of scams greater than the victims they sell subscriptions to (even if the victims' victims never get a magazine!).
They get convinced by a smooth talker who came around to their neighborhoods to go and sell door-to-door sometimes HUNDREDS of miles from where they live (so they can't quit). They are put up in cheap hotels that THEY have to pay for from their "profits". They work a huge number of hours per day AND they have to produce or they're fired - right where they are.
I'd bet they end up with wages significantly less than if they had worked minimum wage somewhere.
The folks who drive them around, of course, make a bundle.
I once spent something like 15 minutes talking to this one guy
Google generates a tremendous number of hits when looking for the scam, for example:
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/8614.aspx