I cannot believe I got hustled! I am not the type to get stung by con men!
I was visiting my local hardware store on Stanley Green trading estate (South Manchester), on a normal Saturday morning. An 'italian' looking man caught my attention. He was sat in a car with a much older colleague. His apparent story (which I now realise he uses all over the states also), was that he and his colleague have been representing a company at an exhibition at the Trafford Centre selling armani clothing.
He kept mentioning his English being poor, however it was not. He even showed me a full catalogue of the clothing which included the items he had in his car. They were on their way back to the airport and had some clothes over from the exhibition that they did not want the hassle of carrying back to Italy, and having to pay taxes, etc.
In return for the 3 jackets (1 Black leather bomber, 1 Black leather 3/4, and 1 brown he wanted to cover the rental cost of the car for two weeks. As he saw me pondering he handed me his 'business card', as well as showing me his flight tickets and rental car invoice (I have no idea why). He wanted 340 for the favour he was handing me. I told him that it is a Saturday morning, I'm on my way to buy some screws, why would I have that much cash on me. I took another look at the samples and they do actually look good.
I cannot believe I ended up parting with 250, he was just so convincing! I actually felt sorry for him. If I ever see him around again he's not going to believe his bad luck when I get hold of him with my huge granite fitting hands!
Mark
Stockport
United Kingdom
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