Abusing freebiesA friend of mine recently attended a 'Champaign Lunch', where he was compelled drink as much fizzy stuff as he could between the first and last courses. In an ideal world we'd ask restaurant staff to tell us stories about fatties stuffing themselves at All You Can Eat places, but we recognise that our members don't all work in the catering trade, so for the rest of you - tell us something about abusing freebies. BTW: Bee puns = you fail.
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lizard, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 14:16)
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Mobile phone selling scamSure I posted this one yonks back;
A large mobile phone selling company went tits up in Swansea, causing close to 1000 people to be made redundant and all being owed close to £1000 in pay each. They never saw the money, and to make it worse the owner simply setup shop under a different company name just down the road from them doing exactly the same thing.
3 lads who were stung for a grand each got together and decided to work for the new company, seing as they didn't want to remain out of pocket. So they meet up in the new job and start selling phone packages again. One of these packages when sold however gave the salesman a freebie bonus of £39.
So....the 3 guys think up a plan. One of the guys knew a contact up in Scotland somewhere who they could sell this top-end package to, and get £39 from. The plan was they all sold loads and loads of these packages to him every day (earning the £39 extra for each sell) and he'd receive them all and sell them on - the phones would work fine for a month then run-out when the contract wasn't paid.
About 2 months after they started doing this the company declared bankruptcy again and left everyone in the lurch. Mainly because they'd paid out to the 3 agents in excess of about £70 grand's worth of free commision, no money back to the company at all from these sales and a shitload of free phones to some bloke in Scotland who was quids in.
That'll learn 'im :)
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 11:52,
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