Anyone buy stuff from prisoners on the doorstep?

[harman]

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I don't buy anything at the door. Never. One of our golden rules. I don't mind people giving us a leaflet to look at, but funnily enough they don't want that. Only for us to sign up for something...

Are you sure it's not a scam? Is the quality ok or terrible?

I dont buy any more. I used to and would still do if what they sold was any good, but the quality of their cleaning stuff is appalling.

The stuff is definitely overpriced but they usually tell you how much they will be given from the sale. I suppose it's a bit like buying The Big Issue. I sometimes buy it - or sometimes I just give them £1 and don't take the magazine.

We get them here a lot, no idea where they are from. Our local prison is broadmoor!! We hear them testing the alarms every monday, it a horrible racket.
I've never bought anything, don't usually have much cash on me, tend to do everything on debit card. Plus I wonder if they are horrendously overpriced?

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Kelly 1978
Surely they musy be from a young offenders rather than Broadmoor

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I don't see how it can be a scam, unless paying over the odds for something because you think you are helping someone out is a scam. "

I meant maybe they weren't really prisoners and were selling overpriced crap by getting you to feel sorry for them.
Looks like I'm being too cynical

Like I said, I have no idea, but I doubt it is broadmoor somehow.
I'm pretty sure they are genuine, they have ID cards, but I've never looked that closely at them.

I think you need to pay more attention to people at your door

I did once because the guy was young and he said his speil word perfect in such a polite way and I thought it must be really hard for him to have to do this so I bought some dusters and a feather thingy. He made a mistake now he is trying to better himself.

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good point harman

noodlestroodle, I think his name was peter something, errr sutton, really not sure....

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It sounds like a variant on the unemployed/homeless useless dusters scheme, on which there have been numerous threads. Someone who knew someone who'd actually sold dusters for such a scheme said they were paid a pittance for doing so.

No, we haven't had prisoners round here yet.

I used to buy things I didn't need, until I had three such people call in a week and I noticed my cupboard was full of useless cleaning items. I have since come to the conclusion that, if these people are genuine, they'll learn more about how to run a proper business if I give them some honest feedback (politely of course) about the quality of the products they sell. My doorbell's gone a bit quiet since... I wonder why.