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When Dayton Searles heard the pitch, he figured he couldn't lose. A telephone salesman representing a Las Vegas firm called Vita Life told Searles that he had won a valuable prize. The St. Paul retiree would receive a new car, a two-week vacation in Hawaii, an imported French fur coat, a combination television-VCR, or $3,000 in cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later...
...Nevada and California begin the day as early as 5 a.m., calling people on the East Coast. Then they work their way westward, taking advantage of the changing time zones to make the maximum number of calls. Consumers who call back with questions are invariably told that the salesman is in a meeting. Once stung, many victims are deluged with other offers. Reason: boiler rooms sell sucker lists to one another...
Jeff Weber, 35, an ex-furniture salesman, ex-convenience store clerk, ex- satellite dish salesman, has spent his life chasing his dream: "An oddball business that will make me money, so I won't ever have to work for anyone," he says. The pursuit of that dream has often put Weber in conflict with his wife Mary, a barber at an old-fashioned men's barbershop...
...Kahn spent much of Thursday frantically phoning suppliers to replenish his sold-out stocks. "We're in a frenzy," he said. Kahn assured customers that 50 AK-47 look-alikes would arrive on Friday, but some buyers were in no mood to wait. Jay Montoya, a Los Angeles salesman who had already visited three other stores in a futile attempt to buy the Chinese-made weapon, finally plunked down $341 and walked out with a Ruger Mini-14, an American semiautomatic rifle with a smaller caliber. Said he: "In case there's an earthquake, I'm going to protect...
...looks like a farm-implements salesman in his brown uniform, but make no mistake: Don Tyson, 58, is the king of America's poultry producers. His Springdale, Ark., company slaughters more than 15 million chickens a week, turning out 1,300 products ranging from fresh broilers to frozen nuggets. His desire to rule an even bigger roost has kept the feathers flying in the chicken industry since last October, when Tyson (1988 revenues: $2 billion) offered $894 million for the No. 3 producer, Memphis-based Holly Farms...