Is this normal? (Man selling fish door to door)

[Bagpipes]

A man's just knocked on my door offering to sell me fish. Is this normal?

[DulwichFox]

This is quite a common thing. I've been offered Fish at the door a few times.

Would not dream of buying fish this way.

There have been cases where people end up buying a lot more fish than they could ever possibly store/ eat

Boxes and Boxes.

..and no guarantee of how fresh the stuff is or where it has come from..

[jimbo1964]

I've had this before. Don't think it's suspicious.. Just a bit odd.

[Zig-Zag]

I've bought some very good fish this way. It just cuts "the middle man" out, but I did get persuaded to buy far too much!

[Sue]

I would be quite happy to buy fish at the door!

If it was a good price and looked/smelled fresh, I'd bung it in my chest freezer along with all the veg from my allotment!

Can't understand how anybody could buy "too much", though - surely you say how much you want and pay accordingly?! Or do they grab your wallet and shove all their boxes through your door, then scarper?

:))

[TonyQuinn]

This whole thread sounds a bit fishy to me.

[ed26]

Funny how we wouldn't think twice if it was someone selling overpriced boxes of organic veg or meal kits. The fish van always used to come around when I was a kid. And the butcher. And the milkman.

[DulwichFox]

Sue Wrote:

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> I would be quite happy to buy fish at the door!

>

> If it was a good price and looked/smelled fresh,

> I'd bung it in my chest freezer along with all the

> veg from my allotment!

>

> Can't understand how anybody could buy "too much",

> though - surely you say how much you want and pay

> accordingly?! Or do they grab your wallet and

> shove all their boxes through your door, then

> scarper?

>

> :))

Doesnt work always work like that..

There is no fish on show. You place an order and it turns up at a later date. Maybe the next day. ??

You then find every week more fish turns up and your account is Debited.

Cancelling the order is VERY Dificult.

I am not suggesting that the people calling in our area are involved in such a scheme but people need to be aware.

If you want Fresh Fish then go to F C Soper on Nunhead Lane

DulwichFox

[Penguin68]

Sopers is definitely the best local outlet for wet fish, but I have bought from these guys before (as a one-off, not a regular order) and they're fine - they van down from the North East and their fish is fresh (although, if it's from deep sea trawlers it will already have been frozen on board, so re-freezing might not be a good idea). I found that I wanted to give them a decent order, which meant I over-bought. Also I have no idea how much say, half a kilo of cod actually is. More than I needed, as it turned out!

[Sue]

ed26 Wrote:

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> Funny how we wouldn't think twice if it was

> someone selling overpriced boxes of organic veg or

> meal kits. The fish van always used to come around

> when I was a kid. And the butcher. And the

> milkman.

And the baker. And the paraffin man. And the greengrocer. And the rag and bone man :)

[nxjen]

And the coal man. And the Corona man.

[JohnL]

nxjen Wrote:

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> And the coal man. And the Corona man.

The coalmen turned up every month back in the day - covered in dust - and as they swore when they carried huge bags of coal to the coal bunker round the back, my mother wouldn't allow me to speak to them :)

[JickieC]

don't forget the paper man

[ed26]

@DulwichFox - so you are saying it IS Hello Fresh?

[Sue]

JickieC Wrote:

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> don't forget the paper man

Paper boy, usually!

[Passiflora]

I had the fish man knock on my door yesterday evening and a few months ago.

He was tall and slim and had a clip board in his hands.

[carlafindle]

Passiflora Wrote:

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> I had the fish man knock on my door yesterday

> evening and a few months ago.

>

> He was tall and slim and had a clip board in his

> hands.

Perhaps he was trawling for business

[ruffers]

He should know his plaice, sounds like he's just floundering around a bit.

[Jules-and-Boo]

nxjen Wrote:

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> And the coal man. And the Corona man.

I am soooo jealous - I would have loved a Corona Man

[seenbeen]

And the knife sharpener man....

[DulwichFox]

We used to have a Toffee-Apple Man come round in Peckham.

Foxy

[Sue]

I'm surprised admin haven't taken it upon themselves to expand on/change the subject of this thread.

"Is this normal?" could refer to many many things. In fact the mind boggles :))

ETA: Oh, they have! Or someone has ......

[Bagpipes]

You're right, Sue, apologies. Inadvertently click-baity!

[Jules-and-Boo]

Alternative suggestion for OP Title

"Fishy Fish Man?"

[carlafindle]

Jules-and-Boo Wrote:

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> Alternative suggestion for OP Title

>

> "Fishy Fish Man?"

... or codswallop