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Ladyshopper

French_Knickers wrote: »

Got an odd one for you guys.

Mate of mine just came in. He's advertised his car in a couple of local rags and gumtree. A fellah emailed him last week saying he'd take his word for the description of the car and needed it for work and would send him a cheque.Value was going to be £900 for the car plus 20 quid the guy offered for taking his word by mail.

Bloke then emailed him a couple of days to see if the cheque had arrived.It arrived today. A bankers draft from an irish bank for £3000. It arrived by airmail from togolaise!!!

Apparently once the money is cleared my mate is to email him so he can organise for the car to be collected.

Sounds like a scam of some description to me but no idea what the angle would be here. Any ideas???

Total scam, we deal with a lot of jobs like this in my office. The man will ask for his "change" to be sent to him by your friend, then the original bankers will be reversed and your friend will be out of pocket.

biscuitmad

Sorry if its already been mentioned but i havent been keeping up to date on this thread but the martin lewis money show starts tonight at 7.30 on itv.

antrobus

Magistrate wrote: »

Went to B3dm1ns3r store today. It was swarming with managers and their staff with handheld scanners on the shop floor. I overheard one say 3 for 2 offers and they were bagging up a sample of certain items, one of which I noticed was Rocky bars (trigger for batteries). It could just be updating SELs but I felt as though they knew something, plus there were four security staff there and I've never seen more than two before. Too anxious to use an apg voucher so went to another store, ....

I cashed in an £18 APG at B3dm1ns3r today. It was accepted without comment or fuss.

Tish.Vintage

Went to Asda's tonight to get batteries... WHOLE STORE (VERY BIG STORE) SOLD OUT OF AA!!! in one day could not believe it.....!!!!

On the other hand my shampoo shop worked. YAY!

Tish.Vintage

RESULTS FROM SHOP TONIGHT...

5 items on your bill qualify for comparison Waitrose
+£13.18

0.3 x ASDA Bananas by Weight (100g) £0.20 N/A
0.18 x ASDA Granny Smith Apples by Weight (100g) £0.23 £0.31
1 x ASDA British Semi Skimmed Milk 4 Pints (2.27L) £1.00 £1.18
1 x ASDA Paracetamol 500mg Caplets (16) £0.19 N/A
1 x ASDA Smartprice Multi Purpose Cloths (10) £0.36 N/A
1 x Ambrosia Rice Pudding Chocolate (120g) £0.40 £0.32
1 x Barratt Flumps Mallow Twists £0.10 N/A
1 x Haribo Tangfastics Mini £0.10 N/A
1 x John Frieda Sheer Blonde Go Blonder Shampoo (250ml... £7.00 £0.32
1 x John Frieda Sheer Blonde Go Blonder Conditioner (2... £7.00 £0.32
1 x ASDA Smartprice Batter Mix (128g) £0.07 N/A

Comparison total (compared products only) £15.63 £2.45

bubbs

Evening everyone,
Hope you are all well and safe from the floods.
Its certainly turned chilly tonight brrrrrrrrr!!
Been to a's today 1st time since weekend and did ok, nothing new though

RootedNomad

Cullumpster wrote: »

Thanks wow that has just fried my head reading it haha I'm in the middle of doing an as shop at the mo if I copy everything down would someone be able to point me in the right direction don't worry if not. Thanks again x

I would love to help you, but it sounds like you may need to get back to base and gen up a bit more. It is very difficult to say what to do because it entirely depends on what shopping you want - there isn't a "right" direction as such. If you want a shortcut tonight, just flick back through the thread and look at the shops that other people have posted and pick one that is the closest match to the items you would want. Henlans posted a few successful completed shops a short while ago - have a peek at these maybe?

MrsBartolozzi

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

CouponWoman - don't read this as it will upset you.

I remember a couple of years ago that airlines were considering actually using the combined weight of the passenger and luggage rather than just luggage.

It does cost more to transport an overweight person and their luggage than it does to transport a normal sized person and their luggage. I for one am in favour of doing this, but it would be so difficult to implement it that I think they backed off it.

I would never consider it fair to charge extra for the luggage required for disabled people, but for the most part a fat person can lose weight, a disabled person generally cannot change that fact. If a fat person has medical reasons for the extra weight then they would be able to prove that and be excused from the extra charges.

There was a large person on our Cuba flights. Every time he went to the loo he blocked the aisle and caused ridiculous tailbacks.

Now I am running off to avoid the missiles about to be thrown in my direction.

I agree with you about this in principle, but it does make it a bit unfair on blokes* though. I am overweight for a woman, but still weigh far less than my ex who at nearly 6' 5" could never compete weight-wise with women and would therefore suffer a luggage penalty. Would all the tall men (and women) of a "normal" weight for their height have to pay extra because of their tall genes?

And taller than average women

Jitterbug

Yay it worked! Bertolli still working. This may have been confirmed already so sorry if I'm repeating!

14 items (12 different) on your bill qualify for comparisonMorrisons+£4.99
0.67 x ASDA Bananas by Weight (100g)£0.46£0.45
0.29 x ASDA Carrots by Weight (100g)£0.23£0.26
0.48 x ASDA Conference Pears by Weight (100g)£1.07£1.08
0.34 x ASDA Royal Gala Apples by Weight (100g)£0.66£0.66
1 x ASDA British Whole Milk 4 Pints (2.27L)£1.00£1.18
1 x ASDA Smartprice Corned Beef (250g)£1.81N/A
1 x ASDA Skimmed Milk 2 Pints (1.14L)£0.89£0.89
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, Re...£0.42N/A
1 x ASDA British Iceberg Lettuce Loose£0.80£0.80
2 x Bertolli Olive Oil Spread (1Kg)£6.44£0.74
2 x Cadbury Freddo (18g)£0.40£0.40
1 x ASDA Whole Cucumber£0.80£0.80
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Cooked Chicken (10 per pack - 1...£1.00£1.00
1 x Weight Watchers Wraps (6)£1.00£1.50
Comparison total (compared products only)£14.75£9.76

Rest of the shop was stuff I needed so just happy to get the Bertolli for the glitched price.

Thanks so much! Missed this thread

Snap-ant

French_Knickers wrote: »

Got an odd one for you guys.

Mate of mine just came in. He's advertised his car in a couple of local rags and gumtree. A fellah emailed him last week saying he'd take his word for the description of the car and needed it for work and would send him a cheque.Value was going to be £900 for the car plus 20 quid the guy offered for taking his word by mail.

Bloke then emailed him a couple of days to see if the cheque had arrived.It arrived today. A bankers draft from an irish bank for £3000. It arrived by airmail from togolaise!!!

Apparently once the money is cleared my mate is to email him so he can organise for the car to be collected.

Sounds like a scam of some description to me but no idea what the angle would be here. Any ideas???

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