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Doorstep Hawkers
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1st Dec 2018 5:15pm
1st Dec 2018 5:15pm
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Anyone had the pleasure recently ? Another one knocked on the door a couple of days ago. Showed me his plastic ID, which had Hawkers (something) can;t remember what that word was. Claimed to be from Middlesborough, only a young chap,ex convict and had been silly as a teenager. Just had a baby and was selling stuff. I politely said, how difficult it must be for him but unfortunately I was unable to buy anything (mainly because I had no cash on me as I tend to use cards these days for most things) . With that he swiped the ID out of my hand and said " Horrible" ! I questioned as to whom he was referring to as "horrible" . Not you he said but everyone around here, as he stormed off in a fit of fury shouting about he's been walking all day for nothing. He needs to go on a course for anger management before being sent out into the wilderness. I have just looked on internet for a possible company and found various links to information , going back a few years. I think it's about time this was made an illegal occupation. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/doorstep-hawkers.98486/https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/7...rning-burglaries-doorstep-duster-sellers
Last edited by granny; 1st Dec 2018 5:16pm.
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Re: Doorstep Hawkers
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1st Dec 2018 7:02pm
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They require a Pedlars Certificate from the police, this is issued from the area where they live, not where they operate. The certificate is only £12.25 in Merseyside.
Some of them show some other ID which is just a junk plastic thing with no official standing.
The ex-convict thing is what they are told to say along with the family and baby by the companies that run these things, usually quite illegally as they are not paying the minimum wage but are clearly employing these people. The disgusted walk-off is also orchestrated.
No doubt there are some genuine ones, somewhere.
The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the s--- hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill - Charles Caleb Colton
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Re: Doorstep Hawkers
[Re: granny]
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2nd Dec 2018 11:18pm
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Don't feel rotten, that's what they play on. What annoys me as much as anything else is the fact that these people seem to call during the week days, (obviously not in your case Muzzy) The organisers must know that most people who can work are out at work. They can glean information about the areas they are targeting. If the residents are not at work , then mostly young mums, unemployed, sick, or pensioners are at home during the daytime, so they are targeting the weaker members of the public anyway.
I bet they don't do much calling in the evenings when the dads or husbands are at home ! They know what they'd get.
I must say that evening calls from these types of hawkers, is not welcome anyway. Very scary for older or more vulnerable folk.
Last edited by granny; 2nd Dec 2018 11:19pm.
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