Anyone else had someone knocking at their door to sell frozen fish?

[cece]

In the past month or so I have had two!?

They sell boxes of frozen fish/meat from the back of a van. All very nice but it is £30-£45 per box!!

Just never had this before and now two in one month.

I've had this a couple of times recently too - only since we moved to our new house which is bizarrely only round the corner from our old one.

Am I right in thinking you're kingston sort of area ?

yes we get this
I don't know how much as we don't eat fish

No we are in Surrey but not Kingston. It is only since we moved here too... Not quite sure why they think I am going to spend £32 on a box of fishfingers even if they are made with the finest cod in the land

My advice don;t show any interest or you have to look at and sniff about 15 different boxes of fish and meat products

ooh cece if you are in/near kew, then be careful

used to live there and there one v dodgy bloke the police were after - unrefridgerated van etc.

Oh don't worry there is no danger of me buying it - just think it is a strange new business opportunity for middle aged men with beer bellies

My MIL did this for a while - for about 6 months all we ever had to eat when visiting was smoked salmon mousse, crab, and the like. Very nice it was too but expensive, and she found that she bought more than she needed so always had too much. If you have a big fish-loving family or have dinner parties a lot (do people still do that???) then it might be worthwhile otherwise probably not.

Yeah I think there was 60 fishfingers in one box!

We get this every couple of weeks or so (Kingston-ish area as well).

It was in the local paper that there had been several cases of food poisioning from door to door fish sellers - like Tutter said, unrefrigerated vans etc.

we had a frozen meat van come round 10 x lamb steaks were £45 Like anyone would buy them? even if they were cheaper, but from the back of a frozen food van?

Well by the time he had tried to sell his stock to me he had removed about 15 boxes (and left them out of freezer) and he had also had the door ope the whole time too. So not really surprised about the food poisoning.

yes. blardy expensive too as could only buy in bulk!

This scam has been happening up north too.

Environmental health in Edinburgh and also Newcastle are after these folk - or people operating a similar scam.

Thing is, the people you meet on the doorstep are being exploited just like us - it all starts with the "Mr Big" types who lend the initial money for the vans.

The only way the people running the "business" have of paying off the extortionate debt for the van is to try and sell the fish at the prices and amounts that we see.

The vans aren't refrigerated, the fish is supposed to be fresh but might have been defrosted, the labels are obscured, the product might not be as described, the prices are inflated (try asking them the difference between the price of a tray of monkfish and a tray of kippers - they are the same price!, and the high pressure sales technique has led to some people being fleeced.