Comments on: When a Complete Stranger Approaches You in a Bookstore…

By: Steve Nash Barry Kyle

Steve Nash Barry Kyle — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:57:40 +0000

Just met one of the most annoying woman ever.

Beware anyone who is in the Tigard area. Paula Fisher is her name and she is in her 60′s, I believe. Followed me and my partner around the entire store. We knew something was suspicious. She jotted our numbers down which seemed harmless but strange. She just came across as a very lonely old woman. A few hours later we realized she is involved in Amway. GAG! DO NOT GIVE YOUR NUMBER OUT EVER, YOU NEVER KNOW! Now we will have to deal with calls from her and her brainwashed fellow CULT followers. We are calling Borders at Bridgeport to file a complaint against her. We are also taking this into legal territory. So, Paula if you read this, we suggest you think before you try and deceive more people with your BS!

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:06:03 +0000

I too was in the business section of Borders and got approched by one of these people and of course they asked me what I was looking for and I stupidly said a book about starting my own business and then the sales pitch started up. I could instantly figure out what it was. I hate the fact that it is such a fake suck up and really not geniune at all. Recently, I also met with someone who was a Primerica rep and he says to me during the meeting that I seem like the type of person that would enjoy this kind of work and I'm thinking…how the hell do you know? We've only just met ten minutes ago! It's this kind of crap that disgusts me.

By: marru

marru — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:42:18 +0000

i love nobles and read mostly time in my spare time. http://mgbfinance.blogspot.com

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:24:27 +0000

I've been harassed multiple times at Barnes & Noble, once at the grocery store at the seafood counter, Panera, and even on the driving range. The grocery store was the strangest, and the driving range was the most annoying. Nothing like some guy feigning interest in what you do and your background while you're trying to work on your mid-irons. I'm now determined to not give my true background and instead profess that I am a [insert conversation stopper here (black market organ salesman, mortician, grave digger, masturbation researcher, etc.)]. Seriously, these people must be stopped.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:13:32 +0000

i hate those people. book stores should have a blacklist for them, because they are really annoying. i guess if you are lonely they are fine to talk to for hours on end, just like those folks in white shirts who come by the house. why would you cheese it up by calling them multi level marketing folks…just call them annoying.

By: JHW

JHW — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:10:01 +0000

I had someone approach me at the video rental once. I was with the GF and this kid who couldn't have been older than 20 did the walk-by a few times (I think he was psyching himself up) and finally approached with the line, "You two look like an intelligent couple." He then launched into the most painful attempt at small-talk ever, before finally asking if we would like to make more money in our spare time. I must have been in a grumpy mood that day, because I remember telling him that he was stuck in a MLM scheme and only idiots do that stuff. It was kind of mean now that I think about it.

By: Kin

Kin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:38 +0000

Only once for me, and I got picked up at Frys. That's before I looked into all the details, so I did attend the initial seminar. The "fishiness" of that seminar prompted me to look into what this multi-level market is all about… which is no good.

Funny thing is, the guy who approached me… I later ran into him at a company I was interviewing for, where he is the receptionist. Whoops!

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:09:16 +0000

Barnes and Noble has pleaded with Quixtar (Amway) for years to get their MLM monsters out of their stores.

http://www.amquix.info/quixtar_barnes_noble_stop….

Crimerica isn't as bad as Quixtar, but still preys on people.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:12:54 +0000

Ha the same exact thing happened to me at a bar with the same exact company. It came at a rough point too because I was looking for a job but when she called back the next day I turned her down once I did my research. At the time I never heard of them.

By: MLR

MLR — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:20:14 +0000

For some reason my aunt insists on keeping me on her mailing list for Avon products.

Some of the products she emails about are quite quacky