# Were (are) encyclopedias legit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 13, 2024, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-are-encyclopedias-legit/1000223 "2024-04-13T05:41:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-are-encyclopedias-legit/1000223/49 "2024-04-13T23:20:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > No, they were not a scam, although there may have been some shady knock-offs. > [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Right after I got married, a DtD salesman came knocking. He had posters, graphs and other whiz bang sales aids. He said if he could use our ‘endorsements’ we would be featured in upcoming sales materials. As such, he was offering us a deep discount if we bought that day. My wife was all over it. I passed. The next day I priced them out, you could by them retail at a substantially cheaper rate than what he was offering. That left a bad taste in my mouth. I did the DtD thing for about a week. _That_ company – “Global”, IIRC – was scammy. They did their recruiting via placing “management trainee” ads in the newspaper and told us new employees that the encyclopedia sales was something new they were trying out. First time working a neighborhood on my own, I came across a family which already had a set and one of the company’s crappy plastic banks – from 20 years prior. I wasn’t about to continue working for a company that _lies_ to its employees, spent the rest of the night sitting in a playground swing set, and didn’t bother showing up for the next outing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-are-encyclopedias-legit/1000223)._