These clearout auctions?

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I've just had another unwanted advert come through my letterbox. This time, its an advertisement for a wonderful "WHOLESALE CLEARANCE" where "APPROX 1M RETAIL STOCK IS TO BE CLEARED". I'm amazed that they are offering apparently Brand-new DVD players for as little as €10.

They are a tonne of typo's on the advert "games conSULS" and in the accepted payment section, they've spelt VISA wrong and have spelt it VSIA and they even managed to spell CASH wrong, spelling it CAHS.

Im certain that this is a scam but would be interested to know how it works!

aphex™

|.Murderer.| wrote:

They are a tonne of typo's on the advert "games conSULS" and in the accepted payment section, they've spelt VISA wrong and have spelt it VSIA and they even managed to spell CASH wrong, spelling it CAHS.

It's one of those things that traaavellers have in Hotels where they sell all the broken ****e they've collected over the years.

Careful of your car if you decide to go.

Maybe that note was written by the same people who dug the intelligent message "open raod" into the golf course on the north side of Dublin, the other day?

Anima

I thought they were auctions?. Maybe not.

Slunk

I got one of those leaflets in the door a while back.Was wondering how it was so cheap and I too noticed the dodgy way in which the leaflet was put together.Never went to it

The Song Thrush

Don't waste your time. When they say DVD Players for €10, that's the starting price. Then it goes up and up... so unless you bring alot of cash, the best thing you'll get is a kitchen clock. And then they add 21% tax after the final bid has been made.

billy the squid

Dont bother going to that you will end up parting with money, for junk that does not work.

You would have to be very very lucky to get anything of any good.

There is an english bloke and his wife come to limerick every year and you would know just by watching the way he acts that he is nothing but a rogue.

Sleepy

It's a scam. The first few lots will seem like great value. "Random" members of the audience will be seen to get 'bundles' of good stuff for about €30. You'll then be asked to bid on bundles you can't see (yes, I know this sounds dumb but the guys are usually fantastic salesmen and get a buzz going about the place, so you'll bid). Then, when everyone says they're prepared to bid a tenner for the contents of the box, young lads will go around the crowd giving you a little paddle for your tenner. This will then be exchanged for the contents of the box: some dodgy crap worth about €2.

I got stung in one of these when i was about 14. A bottle of Paula Yates' After Shave. W00t! :rolleyes:

skywalker

Sleepy wrote:

A bottle of Paula Yates' After Shave. W00t! :rolleyes:

her own personal after shave or paual yates branded after shave.

okidoki987

Yep scams all right.
BBC's consumer Watchdog programme did an item about them last year where they went into the "Auctions" with a hidden camera and filmed them before, during and after.
As stated above you are basically buying goods that you never see going into the boxes and when you get home to check them, guess what?
You should have seen these guys run when the reporters identified themselves, Schumacher would have been left at the start!

decbuck

they will a few of each item.

They know the price they are going to sell for and pretecnd people are bidding by all the workers shouting out umbers.


Then stuff is legitimate. And the price seems good, but then you have 15% comission and 21% vat on top of the price they say.

So if you buy a digiatl camera for 100, you will have to pay them 140.


thats the scam.

Very funny to go and watch people buy crap they don't want. They usually have a really good sales speaker and people are leaving with pots and sacepans, that they will never loose, it just you think it is an unreal bargain.

climaxer

....have a leaflet in front of me and was thinking of going as I need a new microwave and they're supposidly going for €4. Will give it a miss knew it was too good to be true

jor el

These auctions are a fair scam allright. I've been to one a good few years back and it's basically getting the crowd worked up into a bidding frenzy for crap you don't want or need. They seem to tour around the country every year so I guess there's a fair amount of people out there who get suckered in.

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Anima wrote:

I thought they were auctions?. Maybe not.

Yes, I suppose I should have been a bit more clear on that. They are all auctions. The prices advertised are the lower reserve prices!

chump

go along if yav some spare time... they're gas things altogether...

you might even walk away with a circa 1980's camera for 20euro .. a bargain in anyones language