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Creative ways to get something for nothing.
You've probably read about my battery scam and my printer cartridge
scam. Here's another couple of good ones. This scam is called price arbitrage. It works like this. You go to a retail store like Wal Mart and you buy a nice watch, for example, that costs a hundred bucks. You go back a day later and buy one that looks pretty much like the first but only costs fifty bucks. You put the fifty dollar watch into the 100 dollar watch packaging and receipt and return it for a full refund in the time allotted. You get 100 dollars back so you got the 100 dollar watch for only fifty bucks. You can do this with all sorts of items. You can do this at the liquor store too. Buy a big bottle of premium rum. Take it home and empty the premium rum into another container and then fill the original bottle up with the cheapest rum you can buy. Then screw the cap back on and return it with the receipt. Tell the clerk that you're bringing it back because when you got it home you noticed the metal seal on the cap had been broken. Tell them you don't want your money back, you just would like to exchange it for a sealed bottle for safety reasons. You'll get a free bottle of premium rum or more accurately premium rum for the price of cheap rum. I've been working this scam for years. The only problem is you can't keep doing it to the same store. You can get by with it maybe once or twice a year. Wilbur Hubbard |
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On May 24, 7:29 pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: You've probably read about my battery scam and my printer cartridge scam. Here's another couple of good ones. This scam is called price arbitrage. It works like this. You go to a retail store like Wal Mart and you buy a nice watch, for example, that costs a hundred bucks. You go back a day later and buy one that looks pretty much like the first but only costs fifty bucks. You put the fifty dollar watch into the 100 dollar watch packaging and receipt and return it for a full refund in the time allotted. You get 100 dollars back so you got the 100 dollar watch for only fifty bucks. You can do this with all sorts of items. You can do this at the liquor store too. Buy a big bottle of premium rum. Take it home and empty the premium rum into another container and then fill the original bottle up with the cheapest rum you can buy. Then screw the cap back on and return it with the receipt. Tell the clerk that you're bringing it back because when you got it home you noticed the metal seal on the cap had been broken. Tell them you don't want your money back, you just would like to exchange it for a sealed bottle for safety reasons. You'll get a free bottle of premium rum or more accurately premium rum for the price of cheap rum. I've been working this scam for years. The only problem is you can't keep doing it to the same store. You can get by with it maybe once or twice a year. Wilbur Hubbard Most peoples time is worth more than you'd save doing any of these things. Maybe your time is worth maybe $7.00/hr? |
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You are a thief? How disappointing and sad.
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message ... You've probably read about my battery scam and my printer cartridge scam. Here's another couple of good ones. This scam is called price arbitrage. It works like this. You go to a retail store like Wal Mart and you buy a nice watch, for example, that costs a hundred bucks. You go back a day later and buy one that looks pretty much like the first but only costs fifty bucks. You put the fifty dollar watch into the 100 dollar watch packaging and receipt and return it for a full refund in the time allotted. You get 100 dollars back so you got the 100 dollar watch for only fifty bucks. You can do this with all sorts of items. You can do this at the liquor store too. Buy a big bottle of premium rum. Take it home and empty the premium rum into another container and then fill the original bottle up with the cheapest rum you can buy. Then screw the cap back on and return it with the receipt. Tell the clerk that you're bringing it back because when you got it home you noticed the metal seal on the cap had been broken. Tell them you don't want your money back, you just would like to exchange it for a sealed bottle for safety reasons. You'll get a free bottle of premium rum or more accurately premium rum for the price of cheap rum. I've been working this scam for years. The only problem is you can't keep doing it to the same store. You can get by with it maybe once or twice a year. Wilbur Hubbard |
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Hey Dopey!
If you're paying $50 for a watch, you being taken to the cleaners.BIG TIME, DOPEY!! My last three watch haven't cost me $20 total. All quartz movements. The replacement battery are high than a new watch. |
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"Thom Stewart" wrote in message ... Hey Dopey! If you're paying $50 for a watch, you being taken to the cleaners.BIG TIME, DOPEY!! My last three watch haven't cost me $20 total. All quartz movements. The replacement battery are high than a new watch. I've worn the same watch since 1978. No batteries, no winding. |
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Watch? We don't need no stinkin watches.
I tell time by the sun. Scotty "jlrogers" wrote in message t... "Thom Stewart" wrote in message ... Hey Dopey! If you're paying $50 for a watch, you being taken to the cleaners.BIG TIME, DOPEY!! My last three watch haven't cost me $20 total. All quartz movements. The replacement battery are high than a new watch. I've worn the same watch since 1978. No batteries, no winding. |
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"Scotty" wrote in message ... Watch? We don't need no stinkin watches. I tell time by the sun. Scotty Why bother with telling time? For you, I'm sure it's ALWAYS beer-thirty. Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Sat, 26 May 2007 10:23:12 -0400, "Scotty"
wrote this crap: Watch? We don't need no stinkin watches. I tell time by the sun. How bout at night? This post is 100% free of steroids |
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"Horvath" wrote in message .com... On Sat, 26 May 2007 10:23:12 -0400, "Scotty" wrote this crap: Watch? We don't need no stinkin watches. I tell time by the sun. How bout night? That's when there's no sun. Sheesh! Scotty |
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Hey Terd,
Time at night is easier and more positive than day time. If you don't know; the tail of the Little Dipper rotates around the North Star each 24 hours. You can only see this AT NIGHT. I see you've haven't stood many night time watch at sea. |
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