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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..

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?


:))

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

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!

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 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 :)

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

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