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do you ever get these kids peddling candy to your home? they usally ask $3 for a candy bar? they present you with a certificate stating that they are legitamate sellers looking to raise money for various organizations? well, a cashier at walmart comes into her store once a week and buys $1500 worth of candy every week. she says he always pays in singles. she has to count out $1500 in singles all the time. does anyone think there is a connection here? better yet, a scam?
It's almost always a scam. Google kids selling candy door to door.
If they're really young, I usually feel bad for the kids anyway. Sometimes they sell dog biscuits and I'll buy those. I almost never keep cash on me, so that solves the problem. When it's much older kids, I always ask for paperwork. Sometimes they are actually selling for the local school.
These kids are wrapped up in a scam. We have this problem in my school. Adults go to low income areas, pick kids up in a van and take them all over long island, to sell candy. They give the kids a small portion of the sales and keep the rest for themselves. In my school, kids have been driven ALL OVER the island. Very shady.
I used to get the kids selling magazine sub coming to the door with the same M.O. as the candy sellers. I know the CVS in Westbury on OCRd sometimes has kids with the boxes of M&Ms, Snickers and whatnot standing outside.
To be honest, I never felt comfortable sending my child out to sell stuff for her school, I mainly asked family and friends if they felt like buying and only if the items she was selling wasn't expensive.
do you ever get these kids peddling candy to your home? they usally ask $3 for a candy bar? they present you with a certificate stating that they are legitamate sellers looking to raise money for various organizations? well, a cashier at walmart comes into her store once a week and buys $1500 worth of candy every week. she says he always pays in singles. she has to count out $1500 in singles all the time. does anyone think there is a connection here? better yet, a scam?
I always wonder about people who broadside you going in (and again coming out) of Supermarkets....sometimes it looks very legit (Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Local Volunteer Fire Dept...,etc....) other times it's anybody's guess....
There was a scam going around with these kids where - they would come up to you in a parking garage (Roosevelt Field) and a partner of theirs walked around you so you can't see them - if they saw you had cash they would mug you....this happened just 2 years ago...
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Mag subscripts too (used to be)
