Have you ever bought or signed up for something to help a sales person keep his or her job?

I do this all the time. Now off to cancel the card I signed up for.

up for the store rewards cards and mailing lists and stuff to help them meet their quotas.

it's a five unit condo and we do some of our maintaining. While we have a landscaper, we have some potted plants out front. They have friends who opened a florist and they would but plants for the front and deduct from their monthly fees. I work in a building with a greenhouse and get a 25% discount and they help choose the healthiest plants.

I can bring 2 plants home for about $30 and they'll bring the same for $80! "Our friend needs the business". At those prices, yeah.

I really wanted...and had a need for. Not very often though, but when funds allowed me to without cutting into rent etc.

Sure, I've bought tons of items from friends and relatives or their kids, or neighborhood kids, but it wasn't to save their jobs necessarily. It's what you do! I do it to help them get started or reach a goal, or just for charity. The one that comes to mind, other than charities, is Cutco knives. I bought several hundred dollars worth of the knives, and I gotta admit, they are worth it!
In fact, since, I have bought a lot more of their wares. It's a quality product. I never would have done that 30 yrs ago because I didn't have that kind of money to spend on kitchen knives, but I do now. I grew up "po' as church mouse", and I know what it's like trying to sell stuff, especially crap. As a kid, I ordered Christmas cards from the backs of comic books, and sold them throughout the neighborhood so I could get some of their prizes, namely a Daisy BB Pistol, which as we all know, instantly transformed me into a Dick Tracy like detective and Frank Buck himself! (Lord, please forgive me for killing all those birds!)

Anyone who ever owned a Daisy BB pistol knows the actual possibility of hitting a bird with one is one on a million. You were lucky to be able to hit a bottle or can ten feet away! But, I probably spent $20 on BBs, @ 5 cents a pack.

But I did this a few months ago: NJ Star Ledger allows highschool kids to sell subscriptions and they get an opportunity to win a scholarship if they meet a quota.

I’m a sucker for a young kid who desperately wants to go to college. I’m also the biggest target for Girl Scout Cookies, sports teams, the Boys and Girls Club, etc. etc. If I think it’s something positive I buy it *hides head in a paperbag*

see prosper. Where I feel the money is appreciated and where it goes to good use.
Not girl scout cookies, nor boy scout cookies.
dc