The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Belkin RoutersMy boyfriend is a computer technician/salesperson/general dogsbody. Occasionally he'll get a callout to deliver a new monitor or something for someone's computer, and he'll offer to take the old one away and dispose of it safely. Then his boss sells it in the shop, for probably about half the price of what the new one cost.
This scam works particularly well with Belkin routers, which most people don't realise have a lifetime warranty. So the router dies, customer buys a new one for around £80 and boyfriend takes the old one away to be recycled. They send the broken router to Belkin and get another free of charge, which they can then sell for £80.
Pure-profit merchandising! And I got a fantastical free computer out of it too. The only thing that's wrong is it needs more RAM but apart from that it's the best computer I've ever owned :D
(, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 9:05, Reply)
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