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MintTrav:
Today I had an email from BigPockets, who I have bought a couple of things from in the past. You can"t say they"re not honest:
Are you ready?? We have got the worst deal ever for you. We are going to ask you to spend your hard earned pounds on an Xmas Trolley of Tat!. For £14.99 [free delivery to UK mainland] we will grab five random items and send them out to you. These items are cluttering up our warehouse and we need to get rid of them. So we thought we would put five of them together and we would get someone to buy them.. That's where you come in.
Q1) Is this for real?
A) Yes we are going to sell you a "Trolley of Tat"!.
Q2) What if I get my Trolley of Tat and I don't like it.
A) Dohh. what do you expect. Thou shall not expect thy Trolley of Tat to be especially nice. If we were unloading a lot of really cool stuff, we'd call them "The Amazing Trolley of Tat," but we don't
Q3) If I don't like my Trolley of Tat can I get my money back.
A) No don't be silly, if you buy a Trolley of Tat and you don't like it you are experiencing what marketing people call buyers remorse.
Q4) What if the tat my mate buys is better than my tat.
A) Nobody said life was fair. Are you building your own barracks with your bare, broken hands in a remote Soviet Gulag? No, you're dissatisfied with a purchase you freely chose to make even though it was plainly labelled "Tat." Have some perspective.
Q5) Do I have any guarantee that the Trolley of Tat I buy will be worth more then £14.99
A) The only comment we will make is in our opinion it's worth more then a measly £14.99
Product Name: Xmas Trolley of Tat - Standard (5 Items) - Plus Prizes
Product Code: C-XMAS-TOT-STAN
Pack Size: 3
Condition: Crap
Despatch Time: Usually ships in 3 to 4 working days*
Availability: Sold Out
Category: Gifts - General
They are getting some more. There is also a Luxury Trolley of Tat for £49.99 (free delivery).
Waz1892:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on October 19, 2012, 22:37:47 PM ---
Today I had an email from BigPockets, who I have bought a couple of things from in the past. You can"t say they"re not honest:
Are you ready?? We have got the worst deal ever for you. We are going to ask you to spend your hard earned pounds on an Xmas Trolley of Tat!. For £14.99 [free delivery to UK mainland] we will grab five random items and send them out to you. These items are cluttering up our warehouse and we need to get rid of them. So we thought we would put five of them together and we would get someone to buy them.. That's where you come in.
Q1) Is this for real?
A) Yes we are going to sell you a "Trolley of Tat"!.
Q2) What if I get my Trolley of Tat and I don't like it.
A) Dohh. what do you expect. Thou shall not expect thy Trolley of Tat to be especially nice. If we were unloading a lot of really cool stuff, we'd call them "The Amazing Trolley of Tat," but we don't
Q3) If I don't like my Trolley of Tat can I get my money back.
A) No don't be silly, if you buy a Trolley of Tat and you don't like it you are experiencing what marketing people call buyers remorse.
Q4) What if the tat my mate buys is better than my tat.
A) Nobody said life was fair. Are you building your own barracks with your bare, broken hands in a remote Soviet Gulag? No, you're dissatisfied with a purchase you freely chose to make even though it was plainly labelled "Tat." Have some perspective.
Q5) Do I have any guarantee that the Trolley of Tat I buy will be worth more then £14.99
A) The only comment we will make is in our opinion it's worth more then a measly £14.99
Product Name: Xmas Trolley of Tat - Standard (5 Items) - Plus Prizes
Product Code: C-XMAS-TOT-STAN
Pack Size: 3
Condition: Crap
Despatch Time: Usually ships in 3 to 4 working days*
Availability: Sold Out
Category: Gifts - General
They are getting some more. There is also a Luxury Trolley of Tat for £49.99 (free delivery).
--- End quote ---
i see a competition coming on....
get people to buy the trolley of tat for said £14.99. / a prize then for the winner, the winner being whoever sells the contents for the most money. sites like ebay, gumtree etc, car boots etc.
no selling to friends or family, and all sold items require proof of purchase and sold for etc.
could be fun!?
MintTrav:
Some of you will know that I play from time to time in the LivePubPokerLeague, though a lot less than I used to, and played for them in the last two APAT Forum tournaments. They are probably the most successful of the pub leagues.
Anyway, it"s congratz to Tom Brady, one of the founders of the league, who today made the final table of the IPO in Dublin, to be played in a month"s time. More than made it - he is chip-leader, with 8 left from 1148 starters.
I know most of you don"t know Tom, but there are some who do, including Matt. (But then, who doesn"t he know?)
MintTrav:
I played an interesting hand in Gunwharf tonight.
I had J9.
Flop JKJ. I bet 400 and an old guy reraised to 800. Anyone else got out of the way and I called.
Turn J. I check, he goes all in for 7k. Eh? Yeah, I call. He shows 66.
"I had a full house", he said, "I thought you just had a King".
Yeah, unlucky.
Unfortunately, he had 2k left so, for the next hour, I had to listen to him and agree with him about how unlucky he had been to lose when he had a full house. I couldn"t see any reason to tell him that he was losing to a King.
ian.ski309:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on October 25, 2012, 03:03:59 AM ---
I played an interesting hand in Gunwharf tonight.
I had J9.
Flop JKJ. I bet 400 and an old guy reraised to 800. Anyone else got out of the way and I called.
Turn J. I check, he goes all in for 7k. Eh? Yeah, I call. He shows 66.
"I had a full house", he said, "I thought you just had a King".
Yeah, unlucky.
--- End quote ---
Brilliant John :D
Bearing in mind that most APATers would have to look back at their teens with a very powerful telescope, I wonder what age justifies the description "old guy" ? :)
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