KaoriFan Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 kind of surprised while out this morning loading my weekly shop into the Supra at Tesco. Guy pulls up in this hatchback and says he has promotion going, and shows me a mercedes car brochure. tell him i am more than happy with what i have and wouldn't dream of changing to Mercedes, lol. he then says its not for the car, but a promotion they are running for some Lap Dancing club, and he offered me a selection of mercedes watches reduced from 99UK to 40UK (i think it was for a CL500 watch) i said i was not interested a few times, and said i was modding the Supra to make it even better. he said like Fast and the Furious :| he liked the movie and the racing, and that i would be like them. I replied, not with their 6 and 7 gear changes to get to 80mph, then told him what i can do in my one and he was impressed, lol. god knows what would have happened if i was BPU or even higher spec. he just drove off then, and i felt like shouting 'got NOS' after him note: only Lap dance i would probably get atm, is someone from Finland, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 A well documented scam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 tesco eh sounds dodgy, my boy was approached by 2 lads in tesco car park offering a laptop, so the boy has a look, the guy says £200 the boy says yep he will buy it, so the boy goes to the cashpoint in tesco comes out gives the 2 hundrd pound deal done, the boy came over to me and my mate big smile says guess what i bought, opened the laptop bag and inside was cardboard and 2 bottles of lilt,horrible i know but god how i laughed, lesson learnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Peace Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Good Job....as the Watch he showed you would of been genuine but the one he would of given you would of been worth about £3..(im sure thats how it works) I guess what you could do is try the genuine one on...your wrist and then say...ahh yep like it...ok Ill keep it ha ha....that way i guess you get the only genuine one he he...but seriously always best to walk away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Rule number one: if something seems too good to be true, it probably is! I got offered a BMW M3 promtional Omega or something for £50 one time. Apparently BMW were giving these watches to M3 customers because of the lead time in getting their cars...and they had some spares, which would "only be stuck back in the safe for years". Yeah, right, like they would spend thousands on these watches, then not track who got given one, or let their staff sell them in service station cars parks. If I wanted a cheap knock-off, I could pick one up for a tenner off a market stall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Something like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series6/car_park_peddlers.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Something like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series6/car_park_peddlers.shtml Gawd, what a whinging twat : I was stupid enough to buy a claude valentini watch from a salesman in a car park in Reading. The salesman produced a catalogue consisting of all the watches and said they were cheap because his manager of the shop in regeant street over ordered. I have now discovered there is no shop in regeant street and the bag is also fake. I feel taken advantage of and the worst thing is that the person i bought it for doesnt even like it. This has led me into deep depression, i feel so stupid, why did they do this to me??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 tesco eh sounds dodgy, my boy was approached by 2 lads in tesco car park offering a laptop, so the boy has a look, the guy says £200 the boy says yep he will buy it, so the boy goes to the cashpoint in tesco comes out gives the 2 hundrd pound deal done, the boy came over to me and my mate big smile says guess what i bought, opened the laptop bag and inside was cardboard and 2 bottles of lilt,horrible i know but god how i laughed, lesson learnt my cousin a few years ago parted with £700 cash (which was his mortgage money!!!) to get a "wicked deal" ... turned up at my house, open the boxes and noticed BRICKS AND WATER BOTTLES..... i laughed my ass off - but had to rescue him .... reminds me - i still aint seen half that money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Peace Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I used to love the ones who used to sell Counterfeit goods and aftersahves etc in Oxford Street, at one time I was working in an office just off Oxford Street and the Police would often use our office for surveilance.. There would be a person selling the goods and then a few people that would pretend to buy..., and they would do a bit of acting by talking to each other about the products and what good value it was..and obviously passers by would hear this. The 'Stolen Gold' scam used to be my favourite...I used to laugh my socks off watching them...it was like something out of a Charles Dickens play....but obviously people fell for it. 'oh then theres the man in the suit at the train station, 'Excuse me ive just been mugged and havent got enough money to get back to my Office in Cheshire' (or somewhere) he seems to get mugged everyday though ha ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 yep amazes me people don't see through it. But it legally goes on all the time a shop locally opened in the town centre (Bankrupt Stock sell offs). I took a look out of interest and people buying stuff saying they have got a bargain but it was quite clearly crap that was destined for markets just with an over inflated original RRP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 'oh then theres the man in the suit at the train station, 'Excuse me ive just been mugged and havent got enough money to get back to my Office in Cheshire' (or somewhere) he seems to get mugged everyday though ha ha! i've had a guy come up to me and say this, was a friday night, Liverpool Street station, and i was drunk! I think my reply was 'So what im hungry' and I until now felt bad about that, but not anymore ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 'oh then theres the man in the suit at the train station, 'Excuse me ive just been mugged and havent got enough money to get back to my Office in Cheshire' (or somewhere) he seems to get mugged everyday though ha ha! all the scammers in Nottingham used to want £6 to get to Norwich. They all used the same line, it used to make me laugh, Nobody really wants to go to norwich, its not that interesting, so how come every scumbag in nottingham wanted to go! because its a scam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Thing is, it'd work pretty well - £6 isn't much money, but it IS an awkward amount - most generous / gullible people won't actually have £6, only a tenner. Obviously the scammer 'has no change', so they get given the full tenner, whilst still sounding like they only wanted £6. Clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 or the other one is the chav wanting a "spare quid , or even 20p mate" ... er yeah like there is such a thing as "spare" money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickTT Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Some guy offered to sell me a leather coat years ago in a truckstop (I'm a truck driver, i wasn't just cruisin') some sort of ex display promotion nonsence. He gave me the coat to try on, so i told him to p1$$ off and drove off with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 HAHAHA! What's he going to do Report you to the police about his "off the back of a lorry" coats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyotasuprauk Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I like to think I'm clued up on most of the scams but didn’t know about this one! About two years I was getting in my car in a retail park car park and a boxster pulls up with a big black guy driving in a suit and covered in gold and the car totally stunk of aftershave when he opened the window and called me over. First I thought it could have been an attempt at stealing the car but he pulled out a brochure and was selling jewellery as his shop had closed down or some typical story line. I wasn’t interested and there was no hard sale he just said fine and drove off but I didn’t know I would have probably got an empty box. So many scams about now it’s sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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