Dodgy shop on Oxford Street selling £20 iPods

aj2001

lol we have all been there, In manchester they always have some dude shouting and selling a watch rrp £135 oh no not just that on its own plus you get a electric rechargeable shaver rrp £25-50 oh it doesnt stop there plus you get a gold chain that keeps its colour even after being rubbed with a 2p and you also get ermm drum rolls ... kc perfume rrp 25 all for low price of £.20 sometimes even 10.

here is review of items,
1) Watch analogue watch looks shiny ok but something that can be had for 1-5£
2) shaver wth nose hair remover well it will pull your hair and its blade are just a tin can, even punland might not sell.
3) gold chain well 2p cant do much harm to the chain, but you wash it with soap etc and you will see I would say about £4
4) perfume well its worse than fakes and dont smell nice and the packing and bottle are !!!!!! sometimes bottles leak so no more than £1-2

so abou £8 of products which are worthless you pay £20 since these guys pay next to nothing for these they are not making a bad profit, and 1 thing to remember they always have person who works with them carrying a primark or some other shooping bag as prop so they look like a customer so soon as the person buys others think well go for it dont wana miss out

I have seen them return later to give the itmes back so they can resell them.
I have been stung too I got a remote control truck that was rubbish quality wont work properly, shaver thats good for nothing, perfume yuckk, watch seems ok will work as present for someone who wont wear it anyway.

aj

sheeny_2

Another variation on this con is 'unclaimed luggage'.
The scamsters have a pile of suitcases, all different shapes, sizes and colours, which they claim have come "direct from the airport lost property office".
They auction them off as mystery boxes, so you don't know what's inside till you open your case.. which, as it's locked and you don't have the key, is difficult!
But you're told "it could have an expensive camcorder, mobile phone, gold jewellery, designer gear, blah blah."
Guess what? Usually it's grubby old clothes.. :rotfl:

gsmmad

ah i saw this in oxford street as well but as i was gona go in some friends of mine came out said its a scam and buy what ever u can in the first 10 mins the mystery stuffs got really bad stuff in it and then they walked off ...Then the guy at the door approached me and called me in so i went in. he started mumbling i didnt have a clue what he was saying so i sad ok ok and then he told me to stay. Then he told me to leave and go outside where everyone else was. then i was waiting and 2 guys approached me and told me to !!!! OFF!! I was assuming that was what would happen and i just walked off but people in the crowd saw this and some left some still stayed thinking there gona get a bargain. lol

Anthillmob

sare wrote:

Inside will be some cheap tat such a watch with a so called rrp of £300, but which might be worth £5.
.

:rotfl: i often wondered where my mum got the watch, necklace and earrings set that i got as part of my crimbo pressie. price tag thing says $250, yet this tat dont even sell on ebay!!!

deanos

These sales have been going on for years at Fantasy Island 7 day market at Ingoldmells, there are 3 stalls doing it and its perfectly legal.

First they dish out cheap goods for a few quid like cd players, they may work they may not that are usually pallet deals bought from the catalogue firms untested.

After a while people are getting greedy putting there hand up getting all sort of cheap items that may not work, this goes on for a while then alot of banter and people are putting there hands up to but something even tho they dont know what it is !!

The finalle of the sale is when they have row of items which are legit and working as they are brand new but sold at twice the normal value, like a a cordless deill you could get from B+Q for a tenner sold for £30 quid.

I dont think they get many returns as the guys at the front of the stalls are body builders and are bloody huge !

black-saturn

My mother in law paid £10 for a box which she thought had a Gameboy in it once. They didn't actually say it was a Gameboy but they implied it. When she got out it was something you can buy from the pound shop (sorry but I can't remember exactly what it was).

On the other had my boyfriend bought what he thought was a Freeview Box for £5 and when he got it it actually was a Freeview box and it still works!!

Horasio

I see shops like that on Oxford Street all the time - they remind me of market stalls

lynzpower

my OH said there was one of these in bournemouth once and it was all over telly, people got the boxes home to find they were empty aside from weights like bricks and so forth.

I just dont understand why trading standards dont go in and close these down on impact.

delorean_2

You won't find a better phrase than "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is".

We all love a bargain (else we wouldn't be using these forums! ) but on some things you have to stick your hand in your pocket.

Kilty_2

There was a piece on The Real Hustle on BBC Three about this kind of thing.

They got a van full of stuff, with some expensive electronics on display, and sold loads of small, crappy items to people first (like £1 shop cutlery and stuff), keeping asking them if they were happy, and if they said they were happy, giving them their money back.

They moved on to some pile of crap for £20 apiece, people snapped it up, they then said "Are you happy?" everyone shouted "Yes, We're happy" and they then said "If you're happy, we're happy", closed the door and drove off.