The era of doortodoor sales has faded, but its not gone yet ask a 25year avon lady. Are door todoor booksellers with slavic accents targeting young girls for sex trafficking. Students participating in the southwestern program are independent contractors, not employees of the company, purchasing books at wholesale from the company and selling them direct to private families. Southwestern advantage, formerly known as southwestern company, is a direct selling program that recruits college and university students as independent contractors to sell educational books, software, and website subscriptions door todoor using direct selling methods. Estonian exchange students sell books door todoor, call corpus christi like home each received a temporary exchange student visa to come to the u. Their salespeople are students recruited in universities to work as. We had a young lady from a foreign eastern block country knock on our door trying to sell us educational books and also looking for a place to live. Foreign students must pay for their visas and airfare themselves. She provided the student payment information and the sale was broken up in to a. On facebook, officers said there is a foreign exchange student identified as oleksiy alex krasnoperov going doortodoor selling childrens books for southwestern advantage. Estonian exchange students sell books doortodoor, call corpus. Updates at end reports are being received nationwide about door todoor salesmen selling childrens book and persistently asking for information about any children in the home or in the neighborhood. Are doortodoor booksellers with slavic accents targeting young girls for sex trafficking.
Because they are selling educational books for any grade level, the students ask whoever answers the door if there are children in the. Forbes takes privacy seriously and is committed to transparency. If a young woman comes to your door trying to sell books, she is. The southwestern company door to door deception someday. Their salespeople are students recruited in universities to work as independent contractors in order to offset their educational finances, campbell said. Southwestern advantage stirs controversy on campus the. Southwestern advantage is part of the southwestern family of companies. A facebook post claiming that young women going doortodoor selling childrens books might be involved in human trafficking has gone viral. From american honey, 2016 movie about ripoff team who sell door to door. Foreign accents, wellbuilt, persistent and seeking information about any children in the house have you seen any in your neighborhood.
European young men and women selling educational materials door todoor in the permian basin this summer. The company was founded selling bibles door to door using these. Southwestern advantage complaints better business bureau. They are spending the summer in the area working for southwestern advantage, a nashvillebased company that contracts college students.
Student tries to stop death of doortodoor sales shakibas left hand is welded to the wheel, but his eyes, filled with a shrewd intelligence that belies his 23 years, are glued to the notebook on. Southwestern advantage is a direct sales company that helps college students start their own business selling educational books door to door. Southwestern company recruits and trains college students to sell educational reference books, software, and childrens books door todoor. Estonian exchange students sell books doortodoor, call.
Are doortodoor booksellers actually sex traffickers. Please, please do not open your door to these scammers. Online claims of human traffickers going doortodoor in. No, the guy selling books at your door is not a predator. She said she is from nebraska and is here for exchange program.
Ok you are a foreign exchange student, for what school. The man pictured was an employee of southwestern advantage a company that teaches college students how to run their own businesses. Unfounded rumors follow baltic book salesmen midland. What 18 months of doortodoor sales taught me about.
We purchased a set of books from a door to door sales person in july for more. Now i have been in the business of coordinating high school exchange students for over a decade, so when this gal came to my door with her very broken english my heart went out to her. Estonian exchange students sell books doortodoor, call corpus christi like home each received a temporary exchange student visa to come to the u. Southwestern advantage, formerly known as southwestern company, is a direct selling program that recruits college and university students as independent contractors to sell educational books, software, and website subscriptions doorto door. On facebook, officers said there is a foreign exchange student identified as oleksiy alex krasnoperov going door todoor selling childrens books for southwestern advantage. We will never share your email address with third parties without your permission. He tried to tell me how important his books were when i told him i wasnt.