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Door to door scam

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    #32
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    im invisible wrote: »
    they're at it again tonight, going door to door, with their hands out, expecting me yo give them something

    At it as well out my way, some of them are even dressing up as vampires and demanding sweets or they will play a trick on me .... :(


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    #33
    bobin fudge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 656 ✭✭✭bobin fudge


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Sorry, but I can't do that. It never really bothered me, if it was a traveller's kid annoying me, or just a local kid without manners and/or some rude language. That's why I never tried to spot out the difference between different accents.


    you are not making much sense. You initially ask how you can tell a travellers accent, people reply, now you are claiming you can/wont anyway -so why ask?

    I too couldnt give a **** if it is a traveller or not -they both get told "no thanks" anyway


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    #34
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    bobin fudge wrote: »
    you are not making much sense. You initially ask how you can tell a travellers accent, people reply, now you are claiming you can/wont anyway -so why ask?

    I too couldnt give a **** if it is a traveller or not -they both get told "no thanks" anyway

    I was asking out of curiosity, tbh.

    Let's put it this way, if I was asked in a decent manner, I'm more than happy to give something. And I need to know, if they are collecting for a genuine cause.


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    #35
    JuliusCaesar
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    I just say that I only give to children I know. I've had too many of these little scammers call to the door.


    There are far and away so many charities that between friends, family and colleagues I give away enough - in addition to my own favourite ones.


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    #36
    donaghs
    Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭donaghs


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    How exactly do you define a 'traveller accent'?

    How many accents can you 'define'! :)

    Nonetheless, different accents do exist. Julia Roberts in "Michael Collins" was clearly trying out a few.


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    #37
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    donaghs wrote: »
    How many accents can you 'define'! :)

    Nonetheless, different accents do exist. Julia Roberts in "Michael Collins" was clearly trying out a few.

    I would say Cork, the 6 Counties, Scotland, Australia, South Africa, London, Liverpool...and Dublin, because it sounds different from the rest of the country.


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    #38
    lukesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Lars1916 wrote: »

    How exactly do you define a 'traveller accent'?

    Because I haven't spent the past 32 years under a rock


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    #39
    lukesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    seanhalpin wrote: »

    Too damn right you shouldn't have. It is this carry on that perpetuates the scam. It makes it worth their while.

    You should have told them to go get fcuked up the hole.

    Yeah you are right, I won't be so stupid next time they call.


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    #40
    OneIdea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭OneIdea


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    How exactly do you define a 'traveller accent'?
    "Do you like dags?"
    "Wana buy a set of sokits?"
    "Wana buy a new rugs, we have all the latest?"


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    #41
    lukesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    OneIdea wrote: »
    "Do you like dags?"
    "Wana buy a set of sokits?"
    "Wana buy a new rugs, we have all the latest?"


    Would ye like yeor gutthers cleared missis?


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    #42
    OneIdea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭OneIdea


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Would ye like yeor gutthers cleared missis?
    "...or some devedees, we also do the half inch three inch tamak"

    Sorry for the OT OP...


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    #43
    goz83
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭goz83


    Their Gutther cleaning is a scam too from what i've seen. Unless ou watch them, teywill do nothing more than throw a leaf or two from their pockets into the garden. €20 for climbing a ladder is a bit rich. My guttersneeded a clear out in the summer, so I let them do the front of the house and I watched. They didn't have change of a €50 though :D

    Wanted me to pay them €50 and promised to bring back change :rolleyes:

    Bring me €30 and you get €50 I say annd I was surprised they didn't even call back!


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    #44
    mosi
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭mosi


    goz83 wrote: »
    Their Gutther cleaning is a scam too from what i've seen. Unless ou watch them, teywill do nothing more than throw a leaf or two from their pockets into the garden. €20 for climbing a ladder is a bit rich. My guttersneeded a clear out in the summer, so I let them do the front of the house and I watched. They didn't have change of a €50 though :D

    Wanted me to pay them €50 and promised to bring back change :rolleyes:

    Bring me €30 and you get €50 I say annd I was surprised they didn't even call back!

    They've been doing that one around Dublin lately...although, I think the one that came to my house was more interested in scoping out the place to rob. It was about 11am one morning a few weeks ago, and the doorbell rang a few times. There was a good bit of knocking as well. As the OH went to the door to check it out, the letterbox opened! OH opened the door and this traveller nearly jumped out of his skin. He said he was doing work next door (which he wasn't) and did we want the gutters done. Needless to say, the OH politely declined.


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    #45
    Davidth88
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Davidth88


    mosi wrote: »
    They've been doing that one around Dublin lately...although, I think the one that came to my house was more interested in scoping out the place to rob. It was about 11am one morning a few weeks ago, and the doorbell rang a few times. There was a good bit of knocking as well. As the OH went to the door to check it out, the letterbox opened! OH opened the door and this traveller nearly jumped out of his skin. He said he was doing work next door (which he wasn't) and did we want the gutters done. Needless to say, the OH politely declined.

    We get this every bank holiday , usually on the Friday or the Sat .... quite obviously looking to see who is away.

    Had them knocking one time at 22:30 at night !


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