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Due to the nature of Southwestern Advantage’s business model, I am aware of local ordinances many towns enforce when it comes to door-to-door sales.
While they vary from town to town, they often have some of the same elements: a registration process which may include a background check, a moderate fee, and enforceable hours of operation are a few of the norms.
Another thing that is becoming more and more common is towns that are updating their ordinances. Recently, the town of Bath, Ohio updated their peddler regulations to be stricter than the current ordinance that had been enacted during the 1980s.
Why? Because of the infiltration of traveling sales crews. While town officials, specifically Bath Police Chief Michael McNeely, said this would not stop the van crews from visiting the town, they do think it will assist in letting them know who is legitimate.
An excerpt from the Fairlawn-Bath Patch (Dec. 29, 2011) said the following:
McNeely said no regulations will prevent national magazine sales companies from dropping vanloads of young adults off in the township to conduct their door-to-door sales, so township officers will continue issuing misdemeanor citations for vending without a license.“This won’t stop them. They’ll still come in, bring these kids in from all across the country. We’ve cited people from the deep south and other parts of the Midwest,” McNeely said. “Some of the young kids are okay, but we find others have a past history that residents should be concerned about.”
Southwestern Advantage has always guided the young people who run their business selling our products to do the right thing. If it is the law to register for a solicitor’s permit, they need to do it in order to sell in that particular jurisdiction… or they are breaking the law. I think it’s a real shame how the burden of additional regulation affects those who go through the process rather than those who choose to ignore it. This is not an issue unto Bath alone… no, it stretches far and wide throughout the country.
The article, “Getting a License to Solicit at Bath Homes Now Tougher,” can be found here in its entirety: http://fairlawn-bath.patch.com/articles/getting-a-license-to-solicit-at-bath-homes-now-tougher.
Trey, the http://www.travelingsalescrews.info website is for sale.
My youngest son has a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland.
I do not want to sell the website but I need to save my son’s life.
Is the DSA interested?
You may get a call from a man by the name of John Nelson.
He is the vice president of the NFSA.
He is also interested in buying the website for obvious reasons.
The NFSA the MPA and the DSA all hate my guts.
I am faced with a critical decision.
Save my son or keep my promise to Malinda.
Phil Ellenbecker