This is embarrasing, but since I don't know any of you lot from a bar of soap [except for Thorpie] I'll share.
Me and the wife are staying right in the middle of Surfers Paradise for a few nights without the kids. Just right in Caville avenue. We have never stayed in Surfers before. So the very first walk around some Pom grabs us and gets both of us to scratch a scratchy. And guess what? I won either a $1000 or a $1000 gift or $1000 holiday, but all we had to do was attend a seminar for 1.5 hours on holiday clubs or some rubbish. I was made fully aware that the prize was mine no matter if we signed anything or not and I was just lucky.
Now, I'm fully aware of these scams, but for some strange reason my brain went into dumb mode. I just wanted my $1000 and get the hell out of there.
So, into the seminar, and after 1.5 hours me and the wife were both looking embarrasingly at each other as we realised how silly we were being there. By now we just wanted to get out, but we didn't want to cause a scene. It must be nearly over, so we will just endure it and go? After 2.5 hours and no end in sight, I said to one of the numerous sales people who were bombarding us that we just had to go. The reply was, "you are free to go whenever you want but you wont get your prize". Of course, by then we knew there was no prize, and we just got up and started walking, and the poor sales people were chasing after us trying to get us back. One fello ran all the way down to the ground and promised if we went back up he'd give me the $1000.
A bit of research on the net turns out most people have to endure 4 hours of constant sales pressure, then get hit to pay up over 20 grand for this scheme.
All pretty funny in hindsight and me and the wife had a great laugh about it all, but it was a very painfull 2.5 hours.
Went to skilled park stadium last night to see my first NRL game and a great win by the mighty Titans. All good.
See ya's.
Me and the wife are staying right in the middle of Surfers Paradise for a few nights without the kids. Just right in Caville avenue. We have never stayed in Surfers before. So the very first walk around some Pom grabs us and gets both of us to scratch a scratchy. And guess what? I won either a $1000 or a $1000 gift or $1000 holiday, but all we had to do was attend a seminar for 1.5 hours on holiday clubs or some rubbish. I was made fully aware that the prize was mine no matter if we signed anything or not and I was just lucky.
Now, I'm fully aware of these scams, but for some strange reason my brain went into dumb mode. I just wanted my $1000 and get the hell out of there.
So, into the seminar, and after 1.5 hours me and the wife were both looking embarrasingly at each other as we realised how silly we were being there. By now we just wanted to get out, but we didn't want to cause a scene. It must be nearly over, so we will just endure it and go? After 2.5 hours and no end in sight, I said to one of the numerous sales people who were bombarding us that we just had to go. The reply was, "you are free to go whenever you want but you wont get your prize".
Of course, by then we knew there was no prize, and we just got up and started walking, and the poor sales people were chasing after us trying to get us back. One fello ran all the way down to the ground and promised if we went back up he'd give me the $1000. A bit of research on the net turns out most people have to endure 4 hours of constant sales pressure, then get hit to pay up over 20 grand for this scheme.
All pretty funny in hindsight and me and the wife had a great laugh about it all, but it was a very painfull 2.5 hours.
Went to skilled park stadium last night to see my first NRL game and a great win by the mighty Titans. All good.
See ya's.
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