Police and news agencies are reporting an increased amount of door-to-door cons across the country. There may be a bigger amount of operators attempting to rip people off, so be cautious about anybody knocking on the door and trying to sell you stuff.
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A lot of people end up needing payday loans to survive after getting hit by some sort of costly scam. There are a lot more door-to-door scams going on, according to NBC News, and it could cost you thousands of dollars.
The salesmen will come to your door and offer you a product for some payment. Then, they will not ever actually deliver the goods. There are other things that happen too, but more or less, all of them are salesmen attempting to squeeze as much cash out of you as possible without really providing any kind of service. This is why there has been an enormous increase in grievances of these salesmen to the Better Business Agency recently.
There are a good amount of perfectly honest operations doing sales door-to-door, or "home sales" or "direct sales" as they are called in the marketing industry, but one has to keep their eyes peeled.
Cons for magazines
There have been over 1,000 grievances this year at the BBB from door-to-door magazine frauds. That number was only 1,300 for all of 2011, which means the magazine cons have grown to be the most common.
Generally, the con is that the door-to-door salesman will show up and sell a person one or several magazine subscriptions, only for the magazines to never arrive. It's also common for the periodical "sales" to be linked to some sort of fundraiser, often for a high school or some sort of educational trip.
Lamar County, Colorado, according to CBS Denver, the Dallas Fort Worth Area, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Spokane, Washington, according to KHQ, are all areas where bogus periodical subscriptions have been showing up recently. They are just a few examples too since there have been a bunch of warnings issued in areas.
More frauds
Other common door-to-door frauds, according to NBC News, contain home repair scams and "security system" cons. The latter could possibly be either a "test" of a security system or door-to-door burglar alarm sales, which just like the magazine frauds will result in a system that never arrives or one that is poorly installed and woefully inadequate.
There are some legitimate sales, but a lot of them are not, and it can be hard to turn away a poor kid who needs additional cash. Consumer Reports points out that alarm cons and periodical cons are much more common in the summertime when university and high school students are hired by scam corporations to sell you stuff.
You need to also stay away from Girl Scout cookies. They are way too yummy.
Looking at other frauds
A lot of people end up needing payday loans to survive after getting hit by some sort of costly scam. There are a lot more door-to-door scams going on, according to NBC News, and it could cost you thousands of dollars.
The salesmen will come to your door and offer you a product for some payment. Then, they will not ever actually deliver the goods. There are other things that happen too, but more or less, all of them are salesmen attempting to squeeze as much cash out of you as possible without really providing any kind of service. This is why there has been an enormous increase in grievances of these salesmen to the Better Business Agency recently.
There are a good amount of perfectly honest operations doing sales door-to-door, or "home sales" or "direct sales" as they are called in the marketing industry, but one has to keep their eyes peeled.
Cons for magazines
There have been over 1,000 grievances this year at the BBB from door-to-door magazine frauds. That number was only 1,300 for all of 2011, which means the magazine cons have grown to be the most common.
Generally, the con is that the door-to-door salesman will show up and sell a person one or several magazine subscriptions, only for the magazines to never arrive. It's also common for the periodical "sales" to be linked to some sort of fundraiser, often for a high school or some sort of educational trip.
Lamar County, Colorado, according to CBS Denver, the Dallas Fort Worth Area, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Spokane, Washington, according to KHQ, are all areas where bogus periodical subscriptions have been showing up recently. They are just a few examples too since there have been a bunch of warnings issued in areas.
More frauds
Other common door-to-door frauds, according to NBC News, contain home repair scams and "security system" cons. The latter could possibly be either a "test" of a security system or door-to-door burglar alarm sales, which just like the magazine frauds will result in a system that never arrives or one that is poorly installed and woefully inadequate.
There are some legitimate sales, but a lot of them are not, and it can be hard to turn away a poor kid who needs additional cash. Consumer Reports points out that alarm cons and periodical cons are much more common in the summertime when university and high school students are hired by scam corporations to sell you stuff.
You need to also stay away from Girl Scout cookies. They are way too yummy.
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