My kid used to sell perfume this way. The company was really, really bad. He would have to sell gallons of it before he would get any money of his own. They all lived in hotel rooms and ate poorly. I’m so glad he got out of it. It was really sucky.
What do you mean, what flavor are they? They’re bleedin’ asshole flavor, aren’t they?
Asshole! Asshole!
(And I thought this was going to go off in a History of the World tangent.)
I had someone try to be overly sales-agressive to me at a yard sale last weekend. A YARD SALE. The purpose of a yard sale is so you can wander at your own leisure and see what you can get for a quarter while the person selling sits back and waits for someone to ask how much the bike is or if they’ll take $3 for the prom dress instead of $5. My mom and I were at a local community yard sale and were just wandering through the tables, when a woman behind one of the table starts loudly trying to sell her wares. “What are you looking for today? You need a gift? Looking for some books? How about summer clothes?” and then starts picking up piles of clothes and holding each one up to us, saying stuff like “Oh this is great, this will look great on you. You want all these, how about some more, look at these other ones. How about this suit, this would be perfect on you”. It was so frighteningly hard-sell for a yard sale that we didn’t even politely decline, we just walked away. People were avoiding her table like the plague.
I’m a little confused over why you would call this guy “unscrupulous.” He’s not misrepresenting the product in any way, and hey, everyone has to make a living.
As far as I’m concerned, any product he makes and wants to sell is fair game.
As to the OP, I would strongly suggest to the owner of the salon that such intrusions are not welcome, and that they will likely result in the loss of my business.
Inna bun!
I think he was unscrupulous to try and push ANYTHING on to very impressionable 9 year olds, but it was especially odious of him to manipulate the kids into thinking that his lump of lye soap was: a) a good bargain at $3 (which is triple the price they’d pay for a decent scented bar of non-caustic soap; b) a good idea as a gift for mom; or c) appropriate to sell something to little kids when you are being paid to educate them about Appalachian history.