PART TWO
When I was in my last year at school, a "clearance auction" was to be held in the local hotel. Flyers had been doing the rounds the week previously advertising big screen tellys for £50, cheap jewelry etc etc...a few friends and I went along for a look.
The place was MOBBED, everyone was standing in the room, rammed in like at a concert. The guy at the front with a microphone was whipping everyone up into a frenzy with his sales pitch and the odd sale of some electrical equipment at rediculously low prices to people in the crowd who were, to me anyway, obvious plants working for the guy.
within 20 minutes, the crowd were literally throwing their cash onto the stage in return for tokens which they exchanged for goods at the end of the event. He was literally being showered with ten and twenty pound notes, and his cronies were handing out tokens to those throwing their cash.
The guy wound down his speil, then him and his cronies went to work, unloading the "top brand products" from the back of their van. It was like scenes of food-aid drops to starving africans, the back of their Luton was beseiged by people desperate to get their purchases. Everything was dealt out very rapidly and the van left immediately at high speed.
The fall-out started within minutes, as people opened their boxes to find the cheapest shoddiest knock-off crap you could imagine. genuine top of the range Pentax cameras turned out to be plastic kids toy type affairs where most of the dials and buttons were just painted on. The big-screen tellies turned out to be geniune big tellies, but were a European format that isnt compatible with UK signals (pal / secam maybe? dunno) and most seemed to be damaged in some way.
The jewelry the women had been cawing over turned out to be the sort of gaudy plasic crap a 5-year old would wear.....Lots of people were very unhappy indeed.
I hadnt bought anything so found it all quite amusing, but a mate had bought a Sega Gamegear at a silly-cheap price, and was a tad upset to find the box contained the empty plastic casing of a game-gear.
(dave likes cheese, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 22:52, 2 replies)

The Real Hustle
Wasn't a similar trick shown by those feckers on the above show? It sounds as if it would have been funny to watch though. What possible excuse could you give for only allowing vouchers to pay for them?
(muzzvsworld, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 2:01, closed)

A similar tale
I was one of the muppets waving my 20 in the air at a similar event in Chesterfield many moons ago. Came out with a package well wrapped in brown paper. Was a shitty walkman from the 80's (this was the mid 90's) that would have been shit even in the 80's.

I recently saw another one in Sheffield town centre in a disused shop. Stayed well clear of that one!

Lesson learned.
(SillyMoo, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 10:31, closed)