My parents are with me at the moment and they travel a lot. I will not name the country but they got scammed with hematite jewellery...I brought them to a dollar store selling the same stuff !
Me : I fell for turquoise jewellery a lot for a while until a friend who knew better pointed out that they were all fakes...
I'm sure I've fallen for a lot....but can't think of them just right now..
2006-06-30 14:45:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
yeah...I fell for a voice over audition..me paying $20 just to enter did not feel right but still went for it..was told I had great potential......but a scam ! still advertising !!
2006-06-30 15:07:56 · update #1
My freshman year at college I ran into a woman collecting surveys and I filled one out. They called me back and said they might be interested in hiring me if I wanted to come in for an interview. The interview was actually a huge group screening process, so to speak, where we learned things about the company and got the opportunity to (theoretically) ask questions. It was supposedly a type of sales company and I would have been a saleswoman. I was promised to make a lot of money if I only worked really hard, and they gave us samples of some of the products they offered (health, fitness, weight loss and beauty products) and I, being gullible as I was, said I'd love to work for them (I was desperate for a job). The woman I talked to told me there was an orientation in Grand Rapids and it would cost $25 to go, so I paid up and went. Then I signed up for $250 worth of starter products, with a payment plan to pay them back if I couldn't sell them all. I quickly discovered that it was a pyramid scheme, and that they didn't make money by selling products so much as recruiting other people and making money off of them, precisely as the woman was doing with me. My mom chewed me out for it and made me give everything back, with the exception of a bottle I had already opened to give samples (they suggested that I use the starter set of products to offer samples and sell from there), which was sixty bucks. So I had to pay that. All said and done, I was out a lot of time and money and had nothing to show for it but a bottle of pills. Yeah, I felt stupid...
2006-06-30 14:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by amberaewmu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My boyfriend bought a "98 mitsubishi eclipse" and when he went to see it the steering wheel said Talon. Which meant it originally was an Eagle Talon with the body altered. He bought it anyway and loved it. It had a ton of modifications, a new faster engine and he paid like 12,000 dollars for it.
All was fine until he went to get insurance and he found out it really was a 96 or 97. Then when he went to get it inspected and switch the title and he found out it had no horn or catalytic converter. To top it off the guy told him the tail lights needed a new fuse. Five hundred dollars later he had that fixed. Right after he bought it and before he had the tail lights fixed or went to DMV he got pulled over for the tail lights being out... the license plate on the car belonged to a Honda and the inspection sticker on it was fake according to the cop. Good thing the cop believed his story. Also the top of the door and roof leaked water.
While trying to figure out the cheapest way to get it inspected and sell it, the engine totally blew up all over the highway. A lawyer told him he didn't think he'd win if he sued the guy. So he's stuck with a 12,000 dollar lawn ornament. If he knew me when he bought it he wouldn't have done that without having a mechanic look at it. But we all live and learn. :)
I think the guy was selling it because he was tired of it and didn't want to pay to have it be inspectable. the real plate must have expired. He was some rich kid who probably has 10 other project cars.
2006-06-30 15:26:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in high school washing my car at the local car wash when a guy approached me. He said he ran out of gas and needed money to get his family back home (another city about 1.5 hours away). He said he would give me his gold necklace for whatever cash I had on me so he could buy gas. I thought I was smart and looked at the necklace to make sure it had the 14k, 24k, etc stamp on the clasp. It did. I gave him $10.00 and thought I was getting a heck of a deal. I finished washing my car, rushed to the jewelry store only to be told by the jeweler it was fake!! I kept it for a month until it turned green and started corroding.
2006-06-30 15:06:34 · answer #3 · answered by C2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The worst that I think was ever scammed was buying an "antique" mah-jong set in Shanghai, China. I later found out that it was a replica made to look old and sold in an "antiques" market for an inflated price. I think the whole game was fake, right down to the pieces.
2006-06-30 14:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by Janitor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fell for the fake jewelry one when I was a teenager and also the one where you send away for instructions on how to makes lots of money working at home stuffing envelopes. And drunks and drug addicts claiming they're homeless people when thet're just trying to collect enough money to buy their drugs and alcohol. Just minor scams really, all things considered.
2006-06-30 14:51:12 · answer #5 · answered by sunny1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't fallen for any scams, but the Republicans fell for a doozy when they were duped into believing that George W Bush was going to be a good president.
2006-06-30 14:48:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My sister and I were in a long line at the grocery store and we were tired and our feet were hurting. We must of been standing in line for at least 45 minutes and when we were next in line for the checker, this sweat, frail little old lady came up to us and said: Would you ladies mind if I go ahead of you? (Stretching out her hand to show us she was holding a can of dog food). Well even though we were tired from standing for 45 minuets and the fact she only had the one item, we said: Sure, and moved our carts so she could get in. Just then she yelled: Come on John, I got us a spot! This (John) character, a middle age man,(probably her son), wheeled in a cart that was overflowing! We were so shocked we couldn't even talk! The nerve of that rotten old b**ch! My sister and I stood there making loud, nasty remarks, but it didn't phase them at all, they just kept putting their stuff on the counter ignoring us! Boy did they ever make fools of us! Thanks to her, we no longer let ANYONE ahead of us!
2006-06-30 15:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago my husband and I fell for a campground time share scam. We just kept digging a deeper hole for ourselves. We finally got out, lost a lot of money, but no more yearly fees. Thank God!
2006-06-30 14:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by celticwoman777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me just say "DON'T BUY STERLING SILVER CHAINS IN MEXICO"....NUFF SAID? Yes, I was assured it was sterling. It is the only sterling I have ever owned that was tinged with brass after a couple of weeks wearing...Believe nothing you hear in Mexico..buy nothing for real in Mexico. I didn't listen to the tour guide..I should have...stupid me.
2006-06-30 14:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well once this guy told me.... "I, take you to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part." I fell for that "scam" hook, line, and sinker!
2006-06-30 14:52:46 · answer #10 · answered by cloud9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋