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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Don't Pay As You GoBack in the days of pot noodles and tax free earnings, I’d heard about those chipped PAYG mobiles and fancied one for myself. I popped into Woolworths, paid £50 and then headed along to the Barras Market in Glasgow. £15 later I had a mobile with £20 of credit that never went down. I didn’t expect it to last forever and hammered the phone for 6 weeks before it was cut off. Nevermind, I’d easily ran up well over £65 worth of calls, so I was ahead.
With the phone now useless, I was going to throw it away until someone suggested taking it back to Woolworths. What seemed like a crazy idea at first started to grow on me, especially as they worked in another store and knew their refund policy. The following weekend, I marched back into Woolies and found a pasty faced Saturday kid working behind the desk. Without too much persuasion, they gave me a full refund for an “unwanted gift” and only opened the box to check it had a phone in it. Thank god they didn’t pick it up or switch it on.
6 weeks worth of free calls and my money back for the phone. Kerrrching.
Length? It was one of those 8” mobile brick phones.
(, Tue 20 Feb 2007, 10:31, Reply)
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