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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They reel me in like flies to faecal matter...Getting ripped off happens more times than what is deemed normal for me.
(1)Frequent purchase of CD's and DVD’s that in a rival shop are invariably a couple of quid cheaper.
(2)The siren like allure of cheap booze. Some shady character came around flogging booze, and I purchased what appeared to be a cheap £10 bottle of JD. NOPE. It was in fact a bottle of JD filled with cold tea, very carefully sealed with black masking tape that to the casual glance perfectly replicated the seal. ANYTHING could have been in the bottle that could have fucking killed me!! Arse!!
(3)Purchasing a BT Hub Phone, for my newly acquired BT Home Hub DSL router (great connection speed, but the phone dock that you plug into the router makes it look like a Gnome's urinal). Bought one for £65, in a bid war on eBay. I could have bought it from BT themselves for £50, seeing as I am an existing customer with a BT Home Hub. Fuck socks!
Ripped someone else off because of eBay band-wagoning, unwittingly. I sold a radio alignment tool (frequency counter) for £67 at bid end, when you can clearly get the same item from Waters and Stanton for £49.99
It's cool when you reverse the situation and be the giver of ripping off, especially a shop or business. Panteneman SNR purchased a Electronic Organiser (those deely's that were around before PDA's were created) for £15, to be given a model that was two versions cooler than what he initially purchased (which was normally £40).
I could crash this website with occurrences of being ripped off....
(, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 0:51, Reply)
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