ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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watchdog specialCar went bang. Colleague at work told tale of place near heathrow that does nice refurbished engines with a decent guarantee.
I find place, get "reasonable" quote, and arrange for them to have car. Go off to Belgium for stag weekend all happy that car is being fixed.
Come back, find this site
heathrowengines.blogspot.com/ and start fearing for my pocket.
Quote magically jumps to 1600 quid (car's worth 500 tops). Pay for stopped job where they put disassembled engine in boot at a grand cost of 300 quid.
I then give them the car to "scrap", which probably won't happen, but as long as it's no longer my problem, i'll be happy.
Buy new car instead and take the 300 quid out of pocket as a stupidity tax.
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bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 8:36,
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I'm glad I read that......I got a quote earlier this year from Heathrow engines of £895 to supply a replacement exchange engine for my VW passat. In the end I fixed my existing engine and have since sold the car.
More amusing though is I keep getting emails from them advertising "special offers" and also advertising their holiday home in Jamaica!!!
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ErThat blogspot link is dead.
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Rob T Firefly talked, like, William Shatner, on, Sat 20 Oct 2007, 18:45,
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