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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Old Ceefax CompetitionBack when I was a nipper, and when my parents weren't at home, I called up one of the old ITV ceefax quizline thingies. This is pre-GMTV but just as TV-AM was about to end and GMTV begin.
Anyway I dutifully answered my ten football questions and got 9 correct, and was reliably informed that the highest score at the end of the week would win the grand-prize: A Sega MegaDrive. I know, exciting eh? I had an Amiga 500 but all the cool kids had MegaDrives...
So a couple of weeks go by and I hear nothing until one night I'm at badminton club (seriously) and my mum and sister burst in to tell me some guy phoned and I'd won the freaking MegaDrive! Oh how I dished out some pastings at badminton that night!
Anyway, some more weeks go by, and nothing. Nothing at all. No MegaDrive. Not even a hedghog who's a bit nippy. I went on ceefax to see if I could find the details of the comp I'd called, but since TV-AM had changed to GMTV they'd seemingly changed the ceefax service/provider as well. Shit.
Still nothing, until one day about a month or do later I get a letter. Well I say a letter, it was actually an envelope with a receipt in it. And what was the receipt for? A fucking Sega MegaDrive. From a Dixons in England somewhere (i'm in Scotland).
Ripoff? Well, I didn't have to pay the phone bill, so possibly not. Confusing? You betcha.
(, Fri 16 Feb 2007, 15:59, Reply)
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