Worst scam you've fallen for

bronkobilly

getting married:)

Mister Vain

Feisar wrote: »

A lad I know left one €2K lighter than when he went in and he was a student.

Never go in with a credit card unless you can tap their arse with a contactless payment. At least then you won't go over 50 quid.

AndrewJRenko

Murt10 wrote: »

A tradesman working on my house previously told me of a "scam" another tradesman he knows was using.

Scammer pays to takes out a big ad in the local papers/FB etc. When he gets called out, he always asks the customer where they got his name from. If its from an ad, he knows there's not going to be any repeat business. He immediately doubles his fee and rips them off and sticks it to them as much as he possibly can.

If, on the other hand, they tell him that they were recommended by John Murphy from wherever then he charges the normal price. He wants repeat business from customers, not ripped off people going back to previously satisfied customers, who were getting him new business for him.

Distasteful as it is, that there's a certain logic in his methods.

Except that when you quote double the market price, customers tend to say "no thanks" and walk away. Why would any business place an advert with specific intention to mess around those who respond.

Feisar

Mister Vain wrote: »

Never go in with a credit card unless you can tap their arse with a contactless payment. At least then you won't go over 50 quid.

We were on a trip, his bank card wouldn't work outside of Ireland, so brought cash with him.

gozunda

CruelCoin wrote: »

I have another in Bangkok.

We went for some drinks on Pat Pong (the road where you can find those "ping-pong" shows, don't judge me, i'm human).

Up some stairs to a strip-bar, and they start doing some ping-pong shows, some blowing darts through blowpipes in their ahem....to pop balloons, etc. Fascinating stuff altogether.

Anyway, we get some drinks, and then I notice, **** lads, we're the only westerners here and all of the bouncers and strippers have drinks also. Bugger.

I point this out to the lads, and we try to leave, only to be confronted by what can only be described as a literal wall of angry hookers demanding we pay the entire clubs tab.
Some shouting later (threatening to call the tourist police works wonders btw), we manage to leave with only paying for our own drinks. Ran down the road, got into a taxi, stopped halfway and changed vehicle, then back to the hostel.

I've never put that story on paper before.

Stay on the ground floor in Bangkok lads.....

Jayzus :eek:

For Forks Sake

6541 wrote: »

Drinking in a pub in London and a geezer comes in selling jocks - underpants. 3 in a packet.
One would wonder why did I buy jocks in a pub ...
Anyway they actually fell apart after one day of wear ! Disintegrated.

You spend a day drinking what they pass off as Guinness in London and you'll realise soon enough why spare jocks are a sound investment.

BraveDonut

Both Tax and PRSI have been mentioned earlier in this thread.
But not USC!
How did the whole country fall for that one? - still paying it 13 years later

10000maniacs

razorblunt wrote: »

I remember my Accounting teacher for the Junior Cert telling us that if our parents had any spare cash to throw it into Eircom. He even said "if the can remortgage for the cash they should".

Brilliant Accounting teacher but awful investment advice.

Fianna Fail were in a greed frenzy (as per the norm in 1999) and set the starting price at least 50% too high.

GoatBoy74

Sex & Sexuality forum, nuff said.

pgj2015

BraveDonut wrote: »

Both Tax and PRSI have been mentioned earlier in this thread.
But not USC!
How did the whole country fall for that one? - still paying it 13 years later

we didnt fall for anything.They can bring in anything they want and the public will go along with it most times, except water charges.

Purple Mountain

GoatBoy74 wrote: »

Sex & Sexuality forum, nuff said.

This has already been explained to you in that thread.
If you were expecting filth/titillation etc. there's subscription services for those.

fryup

VRT

seriously are we the only country in europe that has to pay such a tax??

GoatBoy74

Purple Mountain wrote: »

This has already been explained to you in that thread.
If you were expecting filth/titillation etc. there's subscription services for those.

Geez, it was a joke!
You’re a touchy bunch, and not in a good way!

Purple Mountain

GoatBoy74 wrote: »

Geez, it was a joke!
You’re a touchy bunch, and not in a good way!

Yea, you won't be touching me anytime soon

GoatBoy74

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Yea, you won't be touching me anytime soon

Good to know you’re following current government guidelines.

Never thought I’d see an upside to COVID!