[Vision2020] Suspicious door-to-door salesperson

[Tim Lohrmann]

LuJane,
    Sure, be as suspicious as you want. All I'm is 
that I've seen these kid subscription sales crews
around before and in my experience they're harmless.
    Tim L.


--- LuJane Nisse <lujane@lataheagle.com> wrote:
> I do believe there is a city ordinance that they
> have to get a license at
> city hall to prevent problems such as Nancy
> described. If I remember Nancy's
> post correctly she said she called city hall and
> they had not been there. So
> legitimate or not they are in violation of the
> ordinance and should be
> considered suspicious.
> LJ
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]On
> Behalf Of Tim Lohrmann
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:10 AM
> To: Nancy Chaney
> Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Suspicious door-to-door
> salesperson
> 
> 
> Nancy,
>      There was a young Hawaiian woman in our
> neighborhood yesterday selling subscritions too. But
> I
> didn't notice anything particularly suspicious about
> her other than as you noticed--overly aggressive
> sales
> techniques.
>      The situation you mention where the person came
> back repeatedly does sound odd, but I've seen this
> sort of sales crew activity in many areas. They go
> all
> over the country and sell subscriptions with vague
> references to some sort of trip or educational
> reward
> so that customers may think there's a charitable
> connection. It's actually a legitimate subscription
> they are selling but it's not for any charity or
> cause.  Their over friendliness is just the way
> they're taught to sell.
>     I wouldn't worry about it too much. These folks
> are most likely in another town by now and probably
> won't be back for a year or so.
>     Tim Lohrmann
> 
> 
> 
> --- Nancy Chaney <nchaney@moscow.com> wrote:
> > A note of caution about a woman going door-to-door
> > in Moscow, purporting
> > to sell magazine subscriptions:
> >
> > Today, a slender, young, casually dressed
> Caucasian
> > woman with a
> > European accent came to my friend's door while I
> was
> > there. As a
> > salesperson, she was startlingly aggressive and
> > overly familiar.  The
> > suspicious part is that after I left, my friend
> left
> > for a meeting and
> > saw the woman sitting on the corner, watching her
> > drive away.  Upon her
> > return, my friend learned that the woman had come
> > back to the house and
> > harassed her teenagers. One of the youngsters
> > observed a white van
> > dropping her off.  Neighbors said that she had
> asked
> > to hang out on
> > their yard swing while she waited for her ride.
> >
> > My friend wonders whether the woman was trying to
> > take advantage of her
> > children to sell magazine subscriptions, or
> > believing that the house was
> > empty, was coming back to scope it out. After my
> > friend called the
> > police to ask if anyone else had complained about
> > the door-to-door
> > people (They had-) and whether they had the
> > necessary permit (They did
> > not-) she saw the woman walk by her house a third
> > time, hours after
> > their first encounter.
> >
> > My friend called neighbors and friends to find out
> > if anyone else had
> > similar visits. She learned that a woman fitting
> the
> > description visited
> > another central Moscow neighborhood yesterday.
> When
> > a resident there
> > refused the magazine subscriptions, the
> salesperson
> > asked to come inside
> > her house, ostensibly to write down the resident's
> > name to give to her
> > supervisor.  While sitting at the dining table,
> the
> > salesperson was
> > uncommonly chatty, looked around a lot and asked
> > lots of questions. She
> > kept pushing the magazine brochure at the
> resident,
> > apparently trying to
> > get her to hold it and look at it. When the
> > salesperson left, she took
> > the brochure with her.  As my friend tells it,
> "She
> > left with a name and
> > fingerprints."
> >
> > Although, to my knowledge, no such person has
> > visited my northeast
> > Moscow neighborhood, I am unsettled by the story.
> > Please report any
> > similar suspicious incidents to our Moscow Police
> > Department (882-2677).
> >
> > Thank you for helping to keep Moscow a safe place.
> >
> > Nancy Chaney
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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