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Sales people of questionable backgrounds

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  • 30-12-2014 7:19pm
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    joe stodge
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭


    Ever had a very shifty lad try and sell you something on the cheap?
    Ever been offered a new bike by someone holding a bolt cutters?
    Come tell us your tales of questionable sales, the goods, the reasons for the quick cheap sale and don't forget to discribe the seller, it's all for the LOLZ.


    I used to work in a roller shutter factory, had a junkie come in one day trying to sell a set of brand new PING golf clubs "he just didn't use anymore" for €50, a whole set.

    One of the lads bought them off him, he got him down to €30.

    Tell us your tales.


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    #2
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I mentioned this in another thread, but when I was younger, I foolishly handed over £120 in cash to two chaps I met outside a mcdonalds to get me a PSP console when it was sold out at release. I was stupid :(

    I also tried buying the counterfeit cigarettes off the dodgy people on Moore street in Dublin, but they're so awful I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole these days.


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    Deco99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Deco99


    Carpets. Always offered. Never buy. And kitchen knives. Didnt get them either.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Why would anyone want to buy a questionable background?


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    cloud493
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why would anyone want to buy a questionable background?

    To become a secret agent?


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    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Deco99 wrote: »
    Carpets. Always offered. Never buy. And kitchen knives. Didnt get them either.

    Funny enough I was about to reply saying I get knocks on the door from a 'certain type of Irish community' (ahem) always selling carpets or knives.


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    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I buy drugs so most weeks yes. Always dodgey meeting someone for the first time outside a disused community center.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Funny enough I was about to reply saying I get knocks on the door from a 'certain type of Irish community' (ahem) always selling carpets or knives.

    Would you say they are well travelled?


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    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    I love the auld lolz and bantz.


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Funny enough I was about to reply saying I get knocks on the door from a 'certain type of Irish community' (ahem) always selling carpets or knives.
    Saipanne wrote: »
    Would you say they are well travelled?

    It took 6 posts.


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    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭IsaacWunder


    Be careful what you admit to on here:
    A person who, without lawful authority or excuse, possesses stolen property (otherwise than in the course of the stealing), knowing that the property was stolen or being reckless as to whether it was stolen, is guilty of an offence.

    Where a person has in his or her possession stolen property in such circumstances (including purchase of the property at a price below its market value) that it is reasonable to conclude that the person either knew that the property was stolen or was reckless as to whether it was stolen, he or she shall be taken for the purposes of this section to have so known or to have been so reckless, unless the court or the jury, as the case may be, is satisfied having regard to all the evidence that there is a reasonable doubt as to whether he or she so knew or was so reckless.


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    #12
    kirving
    Registered Users Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭kirving


    Airtricity salespeople - not once but twice.

    "If you sign up today, you can save 22%"

    "How's that?"

    "12% of Electricity, 10% on Gas, makes 22% total..."


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Banjo String wrote: »
    It took 6 posts.

    Relax, you'll give yourself a heart attack.


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Saipanne wrote: »
    Relax, you'll give yourself a heart attack.

    Being stereotypical is very stressful I hear.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Being stereotypical is very stressful I hear.

    Is it? How do you cope?


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Saipanne wrote: »
    Is it? How do you cope?

    By generally not trying to tar complete communities with the same brush, based on their race colour or creed. (or what football jersey they might be wearing) :cool:


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Banjo String wrote: »
    By generally not trying to tar complete communities with the same brush, based on their race colour or creed. (or what football jersey they might be wearing) :cool:

    Jesus. It was a tounge in cheek remark...


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    Chickentown
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭Chickentown


    Banjo String wrote: »
    By generally not trying to tar complete communities with the same brush, based on their race colour or creed. (or what football jersey they might be wearing) :cool:

    Yes I totally agree; Saipanne needs to explicitly state that he/she only intends to direct his/her comments towards the 99% of the aforementioned community who are scum of the earth and not the 1% who are probably ok.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Chickentown wrote: »
    Yes I totally agree; Saipanne needs to explicitly state that he/she only intends to direct his/her comments towards the 99% of the aforementioned community who are scum of the earth and not the 1% who are probably ok.

    Ok, that's too far...


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    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 7,948 ✭✭✭threeball


    Saipanne wrote: »
    Ok, that's too far...

    I agree. Its more like 2%


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    #21
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,937 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    This will end well.


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    blindside88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Saipanne wrote: »
    Relax, you'll give yourself a heart attack.

    I have a defibrillator for sale that might help with that.

    Unwanted Christmas gift :)


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    #23
    blaze1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭blaze1


    Was offered a mac in a pub in town a few years back. Fella had it out for inspection. I said no he went around the pub trying to attract other people into the bargain, a few minutes later the police rolled in and nicked him.


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    qt3.14
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭qt3.14


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    I buy drugs so most weeks yes. Always dodgey meeting someone for the first time outside a disused community center.
    My postman is a drug dealer and doesn't even know it. :pac:


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    #25
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    About 15 years ago I was sitting in Enzo's café on Moore Street, Dublin a week or so before Christmas and this fella came in and offered me a couple of those aftershave/deodorant gift box thingys for a fiver each. I may or may not, depending on the legal status of any readers, have acquired some handy presents.


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    #26
    DoomZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 166 ✭✭DoomZ


    A mate of mine got a "real" Armani suit for €80 from a sales rep in a car park....oh how I laughed at his "real" Armani suit


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    #27
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    A bloke once sold me an "Italian" leather jacket from the boot of a car. I was 18 at the time. Well, I still have the jacket, it turned out to be real leather and it is one of my favourite jackets and it's as comfortable as hell. Maybe it was stolen, maybe it was knock-off, but whatever. I came into a nice bloody jacket at a knock down price!


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    #28
    chrysagon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭chrysagon


    i had a few questionable people call to my door and ask me for my vote at the last election


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    #29
    Frynge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Had someone trying to sell me a gps, car stereo, drill and a pair of runners the other day from a fiat sciquocentoishsortofthing with no bonnet. During the conversation I asked where he was heading and he told me he didn't know yet so I told him to just use the gps instead.

    20 minutes later one of the regulars in the bar I work in rolls in all delighted with his new gps he paid €15 for.


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    #30
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    joe stodge wrote: »
    ....I used to work in a roller shutter factory, had a junkie come in one day trying to sell a set of brand new PING golf clubs "he just didn't use anymore" for €50, a whole set.

    One of the lads bought them off him, he got him down to €30.

    Tell us your tales.

    Ha, sure you'd be doing well if you could get a decent, used putter for that.


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    Keano
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    DoomZ wrote: »
    A mate of mine got a "real" Armani suit for €80 from a sales rep in a car park....oh how I laughed at his "real" Armani suit
    I had a guy approach me about stock he needed to sell as he wasn't able to take it back to Italy with him and Brown Thomas didn't want it anymore!


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