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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Car Auctions: Read the signs and small print. Or don't, I'm not fussedNot too sure about the finer details here…but it went something like this:
Many years ago, a mate of mine used to work at a car auctions, processing the cars before they were put under the hammer. The policy of the auction house was that all car stereos be removed before sale, however, this was poorly signposted and my mate would tell the customers that they stood a better chance of selling their car if they left the stereo in, thus making it more attractive to the buyers. If any seller noticed the policy signage, he said he would ‘turn a blind eye’.
After the sellers did this, my mate would remove the stereo(s) as per policy, and the car would be flogged for whatever price (so owner would never see them again and didn’t find out what happened to the stereo).
So as far as the sellers were concerned, my mate was doing them a favour, as far as the buyers and the auction house was concerned, he was just doing his job, and as far as my mate was concerned, he got a nice little earner from consequently flogging the stereos on later, after bribing the security guards a few quid to let him pass.
Everybody wins.
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