Zero sympathy from this corner.
This thread makes me laugh.
Yes,yes,yes. One big swindle is to take advantage of woman when they take their car in to a garage for servicing or State inspection. A rattle in the exhaust can just be a loose bracket, cost 50 cents but they are told they need a whole new set up, cost at $1,200.
Bait and switch, advertise a product that one has only one in the store and convince the customer to buy another at a 100% price increase.
Stores that put their brand at eye level and off brands on the bottom shelves. Much cheaper and most likely manufactured at the same plant as the store brands.
Home contractors that insist on you giving them money up front to buy needed supplies and instead of getting off your butt to price check at local stores and buying the supplies yourself write out a check and after it clears the contractor goes out of business.
My sob story has to do with Hubby buying a ride on lawn mower. the year after the warrentee went out of date he began to have big problems. He called the business we had traded with for 15 years to come and pick it up. When he did not hear from the company he stopped in to find the business was under new management. Bad news they told him the mower had a crack in the frame. No good, somehow he was talked into buying another mower. [ Hubby is a city Boy, what the heck did he know about lawnmowers?]
He comes home to give me the bad news and I asked how much of a trade in he got. None he says, -----My darling husband had just fallen off a turnip truck. Momma bear called the store and told them that when they delivered the NEW one to return the old one. The delivery man was so rude and nasty to me when he came to the door, I darn near got the gun out.
Along comes No.1 son a bike rider that told him he had an accident and cracked the frame and bought some kind of gunk that fixed the problem and he road that bike another 3 years. Any riders out there have any idea of what this stuff is ????
What is the saying, " It takes a thief to catch a thief " I have been swindled so many times in my life that now I know what to look for. Hubby is just too honest for his own good, he has lived by the code that if he treats others as he wished to be treated that others will do the same for him.
