Never miss a trick do ya?
were they sellin' fake watches then? ask for their work permits by jove
Someone mentioned property or timeshare which was one of the things that came out of the lengthy directed conversation of openairness with the old boys from OZ or NZ. the conversation lasted ten minutes and enough was enough. popping my first verse into the conversation i asked them what they were doing alone on a friday evening with all the totty available on that very street. they answered with a gleam in their eye that they were waiting for another friend who had just purchased a condo and was throwing a party later that night with everything in place including food, drink and hookers.
The girl working behind the bar was sniggering at this time as she knows me from long time and realised i was going along with the scam. off i went to tell the lads that we had been invited to a party and we had to meet ozzy & Kiwi over in that bar on the opposite side of the road.
can anyone figure out what happened next?
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
Ayone ever been to Samui and been cornered by those rent-a-youths in Chaweng offering free cars, holidays and money on scratchcards. They get you down the office where you're told it's a holiday, that just so happens to be the timeshare scam down in the SW of the Island. We were amused mostly because my wife's school friend is a long-term secretary with them, and in all of the 5 years she's been with them not one person has won anything but the so-called free holidays, which are of course extended periods of sales pitches.
I think the yoofs that collared us got into deep shit, a once we got into the office I promptly wrote down all the wrong things, eg that I lived in Thailand, that I didn't have a credit card, told them I knew the scam.and we were promptly ejected sans the free champagne we were offered, and were not invited to see the place after all..(though the did say it very politely)
We drove up there later anyway to hang out with my wife's friend, and the place was swarming with the nastiest lairiest kind of Costa Del Sol, salespeople, and one wonders why the paid up residents would actually want to spend time in such a horrible environment.
The place is just on the bottom corner of the Island as you go up the road towards the airport...it's a nice enough location on the hill but it's full of scumbags.
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the old scratchcard ploy was the source of much hilarity in my younger days as a lager lout in the canaries. got so funny at times that the touts used to run away if i asked for a card. they were all marked so they knew to only offer the inducements.. oops prizes... to gormless yet obviously affluent oiks. i picked a winner everytime no sh*t ....never collected though. five or six hours in a confined space with many gold emblazoned cockney wide boys never seemed a fair exchange
old strategy, new location it seems. but these antipodian coves should really learn how to spot areal prat
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how were you behaving wing man?
We used to go around the canaries specifically to receive the free ciggy's and cheap vodka from the timeshare workers. I hated that sales pitch they gave me and the mrs. i was later to be in the same job but in australia where the pitch was to give a one week holiday away to couples that fitted the criteria of been between 30 and 65 and a combined salary of $65.000 ozzy dollars or more. we got them in and the rest was up to the sales team but the nice thing was the couples did receive accommodation for a week of a choice in bali, NSW ect regardless of their decision. many did enter the time share been a new arrangement where you could change your destination worldwide including 5 star cruises. One of the girls i worked with in oz has moved back to costa and purchased a brand new car for her fella. she has done well out of timeshare and has become a popular radio dj too. good look hannah! not for me though i would end up in the bars all day.
Nigerians in the flesh. I've seen them a hundred times on Samui but they never ask me shit. I guess I don't fit their profile. I've read that a Niger-type bank account scammer works on a 100,000:1 probability, send ten thousand emails and you'll get one bank number.
I wonder what the odds are for the Real Estate Nigers. If they never hooked up, they wouldn't exist, would they?
Thanks but that was a bad night at the inn.but these antipodian coves should really learn how to spot a real prat
I'd had a couple of changs but i wasn't in anyway stumbling around like the silly english idiot last week who claimed he'd lost his shoes at a concert and ripped his shirt in the taxi cus it was to hot. I was on the SC and he walked past me covered in dust and no shoes dammit. he wasn't once approached by ozz or Kiwi
I love a thread that shapes up despite an indecipherable OP!
I've not been scammed. But I did go to a damn 'Network 21' pyramid scheme shindig at somebodies mansion out in the middle of nowhere NW of BKK. Very culty, eveyone talking about the imminent arrival of 'Doug Weed from America' business guru and one time 'advisor to George Bush'. If I had just begun to tell them what I thought....
Skin crawlingly awful. Even had my own translator. NOT IN ANY LANGUAGE
The things we do for love, indeed!
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i think amway has a bit of a foothold also
wing mirror said:...............ahhhh ! i see. and i'll wager you were sporting a fine pair of shoesI'd had a couple of changs
I've not been scammed. But I did go to a damn 'Network 21' pyramid scheme shindig at somebodies mansion out in the middle of nowhere NW of BKK. Very culty, eveyone talking about the imminent arrival of 'Doug Weed from America' business guru and one time 'advisor to George Bush'. If I had just begun to tell them what I thought....
Too long in Exile, too long not singing my song.
Too long like a rolling stone, Too long in exile
Too long in Exile, baby you just arent my friend.
Too long in Exile my friend, Baby you can never go home again.
Am I being dumb or what 'cos I still 'aven't the foggiest what the OP is on about
Excuse me for not taking this seriously .....
i know what you mean mate, i took a look to how it was faring, expecting the worst and lo! an interesting thread is shaping up!I love a thread that shapes up despite an indecipherable OP!
ajarners, i salute you!
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it matters not! these boys 'ave taken the ball and ran with it!I still 'aven't the foggiest what the OP is on about...
"...ever wonder why they kill the weak ones, baby?"
I take credit. My muffled ramblings did it.
I love sending scratch carders under too Jonah....the thing is they don't really give a fok whether the people they send in fit the profile or not, if they think they're borderline they'll sort a winning ticket out and get their pittance commission.
I just love the look of annoyance the local office woman gave the pair that sent me in when I wrote down that I had no credit card. There are no end of dumbfoks that fall for it though eh?
I also used to love timeshare people in Tenerife, and would even seek them out when I was a nipper as we could get into water parks for free. We'd then try to hide when they came looking for us at the agrred time to show us the dump they were flogging.
As you say, timeshare sales guys are almost exclusively the worst kind of cockney wideboy, who I wouldn't buy a mars bar off.
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