Door to door fish salesmen

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Ok, so what's the deal with this? We just had them come round, I feigned being stuck on a work call and asked him to stick a card through the letterbox for later. I'm sure we had them round about a year ago.

I find the whole thing quite odd. Pressurised selling never goes down well with me, and buying something like fish (or any food!) of some bloke just seems dodgy. Is it wrong and 'millennial' of me that I'd trust some Instagrammer with a small website arranging deliveries etc. than some plucky northerner going around in his van to sell his wares? :confused:

Thoughts?
 
We get them, they tend to sell good quality blast frozen fish. The fish is filleted and frozen immediately after catching and the end result is better than a 'fresh' fish which has been held for days before being processed.
 
dl8860 said:
This post needs more info:

  • really?
  • how long ago was this?
  • how were you transporting fish as a 10 year old back in the days when it was 20p for a whole fish?
  • fishie?
  • did you catch them yourself or working for a fishmonger?
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Around 1990 so I was 10.

Caught myself.

Back then there were so many I used to sell them on the way home to the locals.
 
Round here there’s about five fish vans that sell door to door. They turn up blasting their horns and folks come out for their fishy requirements.
 
We used to have one around here but it was all frozen fillets no whole fish. I never bought anything from them and not seen them for years now.

I don't eat much fish, it's expensive generally but I like fresh whole mackerel on the BBQ, smoked kippers that kind of thing.
 
WOW !!!!
This is a blast from the past. In the 1970's when i was a teenager, mobile fish mongers were actually a normal part of life. The van would pull up in the road and peeps wait in line to collect the fish they had ordered the week before.
Mobile fish and chip vans were also a regular visitor to our road as well.
Most nights a shellfish guy would show up at the local pub selling cockles, muscles, whelck's and crabsticks.

No, this isn't a scam OP...............it's the re-ignition of a type of retailing that i thought had died out.
 
Annoys me that door to door sales of things like produce is frowned upon or considered a scam these days, but rubbish tat flogged by influencers like make up and CBD oil seems to be all the rage.
 
kitfit1 said:
WOW !!!!
This is a blast from the past. In the 1970's when i was a teenager, mobile fish mongers were actually a normal part of life. The van would pull up in the road and peeps wait in line to collect the fish they had ordered the week before.
Mobile fish and chip vans were also a regular visitor to our road as well.
Most nights a shellfish guy would show up at the local pub selling cockles, muscles, whelck's and crabsticks.

No, this isn't a scam OP...............it's the re-ignition of a type of retailing that i thought had died out.
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Absolutely, this is a 'good thing', and that the OP hid, pretending to be on a call is such a sad indictment of modern culture.
 
I see a mobile fish sellers van quite regularly in a few of the villages i travel through on the to and from work.

Very much a thing still along with the mobile chip van, pizza van, and there's a deluxe burger van that does the villages rounds. These villages are located beyond the bounds of delivery, and the locals generally make a communal gathering get together on whatever night they come. Literally there's been +50 people waiting for the chip van on a Tuesday as i have driven past.

Back in the 80's we had a mobile chippy come our way, good times living in a village as a 13 year old.
 
clv101 said:
Absolutely, this is a 'good thing', and that the OP hid, pretending to be on a call is such a sad indictment of modern culture.
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lolwut? :confused: :p

I spoke to the chap on my doorstep, asked him for a card and more info. He had neither, seemed in a rush, proceeded to put more pressure on me by saying his mate who was dealing with "next door" can come along and sort it all out there and then at which point I just switched off. Like I said, I don't like pressurised selling. So I just said "I'm actually in the middle of a call" and asked him to leave a card. Which he didn't. So yeah, no thanks. If they were that keen they should at least have a card or something to stick through the letterbox as they go.

I was once sat in a pub where a guy came round with a rucksack full of stolen supermarket meat to flog. Same thing, right?
 
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lolwut? :confused: :p

I spoke to the chap on my doorstep, asked him for a card and more info. He had neither, seemed in a rush, proceeded to put more pressure on me by saying his mate who was dealing with "next door" can come along and sort it all out there and then at which point I just switched off. Like I said, I don't like pressurised selling. So I just said "I'm actually in the middle of a call" and asked him to leave a card. Which he didn't. So yeah, no thanks. If they were that keen they should at least have a card or something to stick through the letterbox as they go.

I was once sat in a pub where a guy came round with a rucksack full of stolen supermarket meat to flog. Same thing, right?
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Apologies, I misinterpreted what you said.
 
Aye we had one round recently, asked him for a "menu" or list and he said he'd come back with that and a card.
Never herd from him again :/

Shame as I would've bought form them if they were local and not daft prices
 
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