Desperate - ripped off on my credit card in a lapdancing club

exel1966

The most astonishing thing about all of this is the number of posters who genuinely believe this tale.

Am I too cynical or are you all too gullible ?

bigbloke45

MJ2008, is this the first assingnmentof your "Creative Writer's Club" or have you been at this before?

HeadInSand_2

I work for the club, if you all send me £1 I'll refund it to him. Honest.

Halloway

exel1966 wrote: »

The most astonishing thing about all of this is the number of posters who genuinely believe this tale.

Am I too cynical or are you all too gullible ?

I saw nothing in the original post which led me to believe that the OP wasn't genuine. I find it entirely plausible that someone might blow £4K in a strip club.

If the OP is a hoaxer I'd have to ask why he bothered? There's nothing particularly clever or amusing about the post.

Why is the number of people who believe the OP 'astonishing' and why would you presume that the OP is liar?

tomstickland

exel1966 wrote: »

The most astonishing thing about all of this is the number of posters who genuinely believe this tale.

Am I too cynical or are you all too gullible ?

If we have to assume that posts are works of fiction we might as well just give up replying to them.
Based on my own experiences with card fraud it is possible for this sort of thing to happen.

HeadInSand_2

Halloway wrote: »

I saw nothing in the original post which led me to believe that the OP wasn't genuine. I find it entirely plausible that someone might blow £4K in a strip club.

If the OP is a hoaxer I'd have to ask why he bothered? There's nothing particularly clever or amusing about the post.

Why is the number of people who believe the OP 'astonishing' and why would you presume that the OP is liar?

He bothered because he builds up to getting 50% of the people feeling sorry for him, then asking for £1 from each of you, then disappears. Nice little haul for very little effort.

exel1966

Halloway wrote: »

Why is the number of people who believe the OP 'astonishing' and why would you presume that the OP is liar?

It's not about presumption, it's about credible facts, there are none whatsoever and the OP's replies and the way it was apparently dealt with clearly demonstrate that.

More recently (as the site gets more poular) the number of fictitious posts has increased 10 fold, the number of trolls has increased, the amount of spamming has increased, it's school/college/uni holidays which always coincde with these type of posts.

If I went back through every reply I could detail where the OP went wrong but quite frankly I can't be bothered wasting more time on it.

Oblivion

dhassen wrote: »

..... seems expensive.. the guy needs to go to a place ooop norf next time lol

You'd need to have downed a lot of ale to want to watch a Nora Batty lookalike lap-dancing :rotfl:


Dave.

Cranston_2

Halloway wrote: »

and why would you presume that the OP is liar?

Because he has refused to give the name and address of this place!

Griffboy

James_Tiger_Woods wrote: »

I've been directed to this and this occurrence at a strip club, or at least something very much like it, has been posted up on another forum - The original poster (OP) asked for, and got, a lot of goodwill from the forum membership and a good number of people coughed up £1 each (myself included) only for the OP to vanish.

I think this link (similar to the above - sorry) is the start of it all:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=141&t=468316&i=0

See any similarities?

Apologies if this is genuine, but there's more than a few parallels here...

I too sent a fiver from PH.