Coupon Books

[alleycat]

My neighbor said a football player from UNI was at his door today selling coupon books. Anyone know what this is for?

[MGLD Panther]

Are you sure it wasn't the Mormons selling magazine's? Maybe UNI is taking the approach of youth sports and doing fund raisers? I am quite sure your neighbor was being scammed. Or maybe I should take the high road and say that maybe it was a high school kid wearing a UNI jersey. I'm pretty sure Coach Farley ()doesn't hand out boxes of candy bars.

[uniwatcher]

Are you sure it wasn't the Mormons selling magazine's? Maybe UNI is taking the approach of youth sports and doing fund raisers? I am quite sure your neighbor was being scammed. Or maybe I should take the high road and say that maybe it was a high school kid wearing a UNI jersey. I'm pretty sure Coach Farley ()doesn't hand out boxes of candy bars.

There have been a few DIRTY looking young scam artists that claim to be doing some sort of "contest" that involves "getting over a fear of public speaking" and they always give the same story to me about beating the girls, because "they've won the last 6 years" blah blah blah. And I politely stop them and tell them I am not interested in purchasing any magazines from them, and they keep going...until the door is shut in their face. I'm sorry, but acting PATHETIC to try and hussle a product is well...pathetic. Anyone else have these dirty young men stop by their house with a similar story? I've had two this summer, and had a few last summer as well... Maybe they've moved on to impersonating UNI football players?!?

[uniwatcher]

My neighbor said a football player from UNI was at his door today selling coupon books. Anyone know what this is for?

Maybe it was for a charity that the football team is helping out...however, this would be a very odd time of the year for the football team to be out doing such an activity... I'll ask a couple of players tomorrow and see what the deal is.

[ejacobson]

There have been several groups around Omaha and Lincoln posing as school groups or sports teams scamming people lately. So hopefully this isnt going on up in CF as well.

[uniwatcher]

There have been several groups around Omaha and Lincoln posing as school groups or sports teams scamming people lately. So hopefully this isnt going on up in CF as well.

Isn't it sad that people have to resort to such low morality to make a buck? Hopefully the police there and possibly here are all over this!

[UNI Fight]

I was moving things into my house a few days ago in Cedar Falls and my room mate and I answered the door and a kid about 13 was selling candy bars to "help get his life turned around", we bought a 5 dollar box of turtles, was this the scam in question?

[uniwatcher]

I was moving things into my house a few days ago in Cedar Falls and my room mate and I answered the door and a kid about 13 was selling candy bars to "help get his life turned around", we bought a 5 dollar box of turtles, was this the scam in question?

Chances are it was a scam, might not be the one in question though... Also, chances are he wasn't 13...these guys all try to look young and helpless, but if you look closely they're much older...

[DomeRanger Posse]

Some of the companies that these kids work for treat them like slaves, especially the magazine vendors. Does anyone else remember the car accident about four years ago in which a van full of magazine sellers was hit in Wisconsin, and one of the kids died? Lot of investigation followed, and it turned out that most of those kids can't get fed or get a place to sleep other than the van if they don't make quota. I'm not saying to feel sorry for them, because I actually had one piss on my front door when I told him no thanks. But some of these kids go into this thinking a lot of money for a little work, and then they get hosed.