Ripped OffA friend who worked in a second hand record shop told us about a Japanese guy who regularly bought "rare" records in their shop. One time, he was looking for a signed copy of "Never Mind the Bollocks".
They didn't have one. Four people and one magic marker later, they did. Ker-ching!
How have you been ripped off? Who did you rip off? Are you a British Gas customer?
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chthonic, Thu 15 Feb 2007, 16:28)
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Speakers (for jvgreen)Ahh, the speaker scammers.
The first time I saw them they were in a parking lot with, of course, their white van. They had microphones and were telling people that it was a radio station promotion. If you said the name of their station, you'd win these $400 speakers. They didn't find anyone who named their station. So they said they had tried all day, failed and were willing, though they shouldn't, to just sell the speakers off for pennies on the dollar. Two weeks later they pull up to me and tell me that they were employees at a large convention center, that the specs changed on installation of expensive speakers so their boss told them to sell off the ones they'd previously purchased. I told them they worked for a radio station the last time I saw them. They shrugged and drove on.
Later I looked them up. They are famous and everywhere. see, for instance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speakers
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