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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Why do people solicit at colleges? Don't they know college students have no money because it is all spent on education and food? Or maybe they think we are just vulnerable because we are young.
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They do it because they want to shape your future spending habits by familiarizing you with their products or services. When I was in college (late 1970s), the most notorious ones were the beer companies sponsoring frat parties--even though most undergrads are underage! I haven't heard whether campuses still allow that kind of yuckiness.
I knew certain college students that did manage to find money for non-educational stuff such as cheap beer and occasional weekend trips to Mexico.