Selling eggs- people not paying for eggs

[Altairsky]

I'm amazed you can actually do this in US... Here in Italy they would steal all the eggs, the table, and even the sign.
They stole cabbage from my friend vegetable garden. They stole watermelons from my aunt. They stole the chickens my uncle just culled. And they even jumped the fence to steal my grandma prunes.

 

[lagrange chicks]

I usually give our extra eggs away to family and friends but have had this happen when selling firewood bundles at a roadside stand. I would sell 3 large size bundles for $10 or $3.50 a piece, I would put 12 bundles out at a time and it went well for the 1st couple years. Then it started, instead of $40 dollars in the can there would be $20 and it got to the point of all the wood gone and no money. I just used a coffee can for the money so if someone needed change for a $20 they could maybe make change.

 

[Nym]

Maybe you should put up a camera and instead of putting eggs out leave 10 bucks on the table.

10$ in a mousetrap ... for a bit of entertainment

 

[Nym]

I'm amazed you can actually do this in US... Here in Italy they would steal all the eggs, the table, and even the sign.
They stole cabbage from my friend vegetable garden. They stole watermelons from my aunt. They stole the chickens my uncle just culled. And they even jumped the fence to steal my grandma prunes.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Where I live it is tomatoes and rockmellons that are regularly sold from roadside stalls. Has been going on for 60yrs.
But times are definately worse than ever for honesty, and more are giving up, or going to the Saturday charity markets to sell.