Door knockers in Oz caught in Channel 9 sting

Hmmm shirts and a truck equals insurance eh?
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I must find the store that sells those

Seriously though did you not watch the youtube vid, the same company was stung in 2005 by our Office of Fair Trading...and if you read my post i was referring to more than just this door knocker.

Sometimes active controls are required to ensure that the rules we expect to act as limits on unacceptable behaviour are followed....even Allan G gets that now!!!
 
When I was going to school on the GI Bill, collage prep in 1970, I door knocked to earn extra bucks. Traveled around on my bicycle and seen dead trees in peoples yards, and stopped and knocked on their door, gave them a price. No insurance, no business license, "just can do know how to get the tree down." I was never out to take advantage of the customer. Oh it was totally opposite of that. I was just trying to get through school. Life was much simpler back then and living was easy. Today life is f'n crazy.
 
Gerald where my family lives in North Queensland there are very few door knockers we do have some hackers uninsured unregistered etc but they tend to charge much much less than the other guys doing tree work, not more.

People still get charged for work that really was unnecessary but as I said they have the right to spend their money as they wish. Also the hacks of here tend to be local, its a fair hike to the next big town/city +100km, and over 1000km to Brisbane where the TV piece was shot.

The situation in the cities down south is different again.
 
I can't think of any one man operations that I have come across or even heard of here in Queensland but there might be a few...when there are other workers envolved things get even worse from my perspective...what happens to them if something goes wrong at work?

In such setups the workers are potentially as much at risk as the customer.
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"We have legislation specificalllt designed to prevent unscrupulous persons from ripping off the weak and vulnerable, you may not have that in the US i don't know."

Sean,

Would you find a link to the laws the pertain to door-knocking solicitation?

Legislating protection from unscrupulous vendors would never stand up in court. There has to be a definition of a practice that was violated.
 
Hmmm well Tom you must know something that State Legislature in Queensland don't eh???

http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/CURRENT/F/FairTradA89.pdf

To reduce the amount of time you might require...

Div 4 Section 57 for definitions
Div 4 Sections 61/62/65....you might whilst you are reading these sections consider how many door knockers you really think would comply with these regulations?

I am only too willing to accept that this is not the case where you live never said it was...it is the law where I live, and it should be enforced when people break elements of it.
 
Ah....I hadn't thought somebody would be devious enough to track some old lady down, knock on the door and tell her that all the trees on the property were a major hazard and she should have them cut. I wouldn't expect people to be that way. But at the same time I dont expect someone to stay at home waiting for the phone to ring. If these people are preying on innocent victims of decete, then shame on them! If they are indescriminetly trying to track down work, then good for them.
 
My family has some experiance with dishonest people like the guys in the video.

These traders set out with intent to intimidate the elderly and infirm in order to overcharge for the services they render.I have no problem with them being exposed in the video,although the manner in which the work (already done) was condemmed by a third party who never saw it, bleached the credibility out of his argument.
 
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