GUMTREE SCAMMER do not fall for this!

pulliptears

timbstoke wrote: »

Ey up duck, ow at, oraight?

Fair point - we go Up 'Anley Duck, but we pop down Stoke.

Language isn't really my strong point. All I know is that my mobile provider comes from up north somewhere. In fact, they just changed their name from "t'mobile" to "ee, mobile"

Conner complain. Ow at yerself youth?

dealer_wins

I often wonder how so many people in the UK get scammed. The first few posts in this thread shows how.

Scary reading!!!

Gilbert2

Who rents a property from Gumtree anyway?

Gilbert2

bod1467 wrote: »

On a similar (tangential) theme ... my English teacher hated Star Trek, because of the opening monologue. Can you spot the grammatical error?

Sounds like your English teacher was a whole bundle of fun.

What a pedantic get.

RosiPossum

Gilbert2 wrote: »

Who rents a property from Gumtree anyway?

I did and it was fine. Individuals who don't want to pay extortionate fees for agents quite often use Gumtree.
I saw the ad, called to view, went to view, then decided to live there and had absolutely no problems.
That was Glasgow too!

Elvisia

A very green student of mine was moving to London and got conned like this, he was offered an amazing flat in Belgravia for £660 a month - yes of course bells already ringing - which he had to secure with a money transfer before he could view it. All the emails were written in appalling English, I felt so bad for him when he asked me if I thought he had lost his money! (yes, yes you have).

peter_the_piper

NBLondon wrote: »

I'd always understood it as "Up" to the city from the country - e.g. you go "up" to university at Oxbridge but are sent "down" (i.e. home) for a misdemeanour. Since Bath and Glasgow are both cities - it doesn't apply - unless you make the case as to which is the more important. Socially speaking, Bath is probably the posher...

"Up" and "Down" lines on the railway makes sense - there is also "reversible". Just to muddy the waters, at my local commuter station they refer to "Town" and "Country" ends of the platform; where Town is the direction of Central London.

So, living on the south coast, you go "up" to London but "down" to Glasgow? Good old England.

LimeLight

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

I'd never heard of this before! Can you link to an authoritative reference / explanation? My ham-fisted searching has only yielded others asking the same question and people posting similar to you.

Interesting it doesn't seem to apply to "Up north".

On the railways, the up line is always towards the capital.