Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Persistent 'Perfume Pedlar' of Wood Green High Road
According to the Council, Wood Green High Road has the second highest footfall in London, Oxford Street being the busiest. I regularly use the supermarkets on the High Road and I find it astonishing just how often I come across The Persistent 'Perfume Pedlar' of Wood Green High Road. I can't imagine there will be many on here tempted by his wares but just in case, consider the following...
He appears to get his stock from a Mr N* Singh from Wembley way. Mr Singh seems to retail most of his "brands" of "perfume" at £52.80 per 48 pieces. So it probably costs our pedlar about £1.10 a bottle, the actual "perfume" can't be worth very much when you take away the shipping/packaging/Mr Singh's VAT/profit. Our pedlar sells bags containing maybe 4/5/6 bottles for £20 cash and operates with a couple who excitedly "buy" from him to help whip up business. He seems to do very well.
So he probably makes at least c£13 profit on each sale.Does he pay VAT, National Insurance, Income Tax like most of the rest of us? Is he paying business rates? Has he paid for a Street Trading Licence? How does he get away with it? I have reported him to Haringey Trading Standards but they didn't seem very interested...
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Permalink Reply by Philip on
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I can't pretend to be too bothered...I have seen him in action. Perfume companies sell goods at vastly inflated prices which can only be price controlled. There is no commercial reason why a small bottle of smelly stuff should retail at £47! Why shouldn't the little guy get in on the act?
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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
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I don't carry a candle for the major perfume companies either but many of his customers probably aren't in their market. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Hardly a moral equivalence between major corporations who throw billions at advertising and inflate the huge earnings of advertising companies and drones like the Beckhams and a guy flogging a few bottles of smelly stuff to people of limited funds on the High Street....
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Permalink Reply by michaela rourke on
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What you're forgetting is that these bottles are most likely full of toilet water. Literally.
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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It's only water, a little alcohol and a few drops of essential oils. No reason it should cost much more than a bottle of Perrier water. Lidl have broken ranks with the perfume cartel recently and started selling it as cheap as the guy on the street. Actually cheaper, Lidl will do you one bottle for £3.99.
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I think people are missing the point that this is a con trick rather than a well meaning philanthropist selling expensive perfume to the masses for pennies.
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It is Interesting that no one has taken umbridge with the attempted comercial PR rave party's the banks have been putting on down wood green high street. They've clearly recently proven themselves to be operating outside the law on a number of counts yet they get to blast shity music and dancing girls on stilts ( have some fricking imagination bankers ) onto the high street to push their compound interest loans down the throats of some of the poorest people in London.
Two wrongs don't make a right but when you have only one life, best to use the spare time you have taking pot shots at the really big ass holes.
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True, let's clean the high street of compound interest salesmen.
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That is very unfair!!!! I think you'll find that spat out chewing gum is way above the others. It stays forever on our lovely new paving!
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it doesn't have to be an either or, we could just have a zero tolerance approach on all the anti social hooligans, loan salesmen, perfume extortionists, perfume non extortionists and chewing gum salesmen alike.
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