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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New Years Eve And Pubs...
I love my pubs. Wherever I live I always find a local that I like and that gets most of my, not inconsiderable, trade. I normally have a few pints - between three and four most nights. That’s about a tenner a night or £70 a week. £3500 a year.
And then new Years Eve rolls round and the bastards try to charge you. Yes - charge you anything up to £20 for the privilege of paying yet more money to drink in a hideously over-crowded pub. Now *that’s* a fucking rip-off.
It was tried a few years ago in my local in Manchester. We locals argued and argued with the landlord that we shouldn't have to pay - we supported the pub day-in, day-out unlike the hordes of once-a-year-piss-heads but he wouldn't budge. So we did. About 40 out of 60 locals decamped from the pub and moved a few yards up the street to a more reasonable pub with a decent landlord. Rip-off landlord had a good New Years Eve and then went bust three months later.
You can't run a pub if you piss your regulars off.
Pint Power!
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 18 Feb 2007, 14:49,
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