So should I pass it on ?

Is it possible to work five days a week at car boot sales? They only have them on Sundays and (occasionally) Saturdays down in my neck of the woods....

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"John Turner" and "simon" wrote

OK, so here's another example.

Our club show once invited a trader to attend.

The second time we invited him (with SAE for him to confirm) we didn't hear a dickie bird and assumed he wasn't going to show so we sold his space to someone else. Surprise surprise, he turned up and I had to re-jig the floor plan to acomodate him.

I remonstrated with him and said that if he didn't reply next year I would not make the effort to accomodate him. Low and behold, we heard nothing until we got a call from someone whom he had told to collect something from his stand at our show and they were worried because he wasn't listed as a trader in our publicity. We let him in again but not before I said "this is the last time".

That show was interesting. around midday on Saturday someone came in and ask to be re-admitted to return an N Gauge Warship that was faulty. We let them in and they thanked us onthe way out having returned the faulty goods. Then the same thing happend at 2 and at 3.30, and at 4.45, and again about 4 times on sunday; same locomotive every time. And then around Wendesday of the following week I got a phonecall from a visitor to the area who had come into our show and returned to East Anglia. He had purchased a non working N Gauge warship from a trader and wanted to return it.

We made a concious decision not to have him again so the following year I deliberately left him out of the trade invites.

Come the week before the show I was told by one of our members that he had seen said trader at a swap meet the week before and been told that he was coming. I went out to his "shop" and said "Oh no you're not". He was very surprised and couldn't see that he had done anything wrong as he had replaced said offending loco every time, even the last one. When I said "Yes but you sold it as a runner 9 times over the weekend and that is at least 8 breachs of the trade descriptions act, that's the sort of publicity we just can't tolerate for our show. And then there's the matter of you not bothering to reply to letters we send you". I am afraid he just couldn't understand why we were so upset with him.

Anyway, he didn't come and we haven't seen or heard of him since.

Elliott

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Elliott Cowton

I should have added "and market stalls".

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£75,000 for 240 hours' community service works out at £300 per hour. Nice work if you can get it.

(kim)

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Here in New Zealand a man has just pleaded guilty to defrauding the welf= are system of $3.5 odd million dollars (approx 1 million GBP). I don't kno= w if he was working at all but it shows how the system could be ripped off.

Edmund

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"Edmund Good" wrote

Sounds like NZ have the same problem as the UK - insufficient deterrent.

John.

Edmund

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Edmund

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Edmund Good

"Edmund Good" wrote

I bet HE can! ;-)

John.

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John Turner

Given the amount of money that you get on benefit, =A375000 is a few years worth. How on earth does the DWP allow a fraudster to get away with it for so long given the crap that a legitimate claimant has to wade through should they be unfortunate enough to find themselves out of work. If they are only catching up the ones who defrauding to the tune of ten of thousands of pounds then anybody out of work short term is almost certainly going to get away with giving it a go.

Kevin

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A lot of people don't have cars and/or don't visit trade fairs ever and are dependent on the local corner shop for their model railway supplies but these are being increasingly forced out of business by unfair competition.

(kim)

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"kim" wrote

I think the same applies to many small retail businesses, but in the non-modelling field the unfair competition comes from the supermarkets.

John.

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John Turner

Running 125 odd aliases should count as a full time job!

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Greg Procter

He will go to prison for a stretch!

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Greg Procter

His neck?

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calee

Huhh? There's a local corner shop somewhere in New Zealand that has sufficient model railway supplies to satisfy a modeller???

Where? Where?? Where???

Regards, Greg.P. NZ.

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Greg Procter

Here in NZ the "competition" for model shops comes in the form of the chain shops importing (large) quantities of very limited assortments of models without continuity of supply. For example diecast cars and plastic kits are sold at half the model shop prices and then are gone for 6-12 months. (Toy) Thomas sets are the current craze and it's obvious from the box art that the manufacturers intend that the sets are expandable, but the chains treat them as one-off sales.

Regards, Greg.P.

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Greg Procter

Nahh, we stopped that in the 1950s - Prison Education teaching inmates the subtlties of benefit fraud.

Greg.P. NZ

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Greg Procter

LOL! You obvioulsy didn't see the "Wife Swap" program where one family were on =A336,000 per year _benefits_! So make it two years, rather than "a few".

MBQ

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In message , Greg Procter writes

Still no RTR Kiwi models Greg? How's tricks down there anyway? I'm hearing rumours that icebergs are being sighted about 80km off Dunedin and Invercargill. Something for the tourists eh? My Ww was finished a few months ago (as 480, who else?), and the Kb is well on it's way, though I'm getting a chap to build it for me, and he's making a damn fine job of it. Watched Kb Country and the Ride of 480 again last night, pure unashamed nostalgia. Ah, memories!

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James Christie

There are a few - Frateshi American Dieasels in New Zealand liveries - wrong scale/gauge combination. Assorted 1:64th goods wagons.

I've added G24 NZR to my collection of gauges, scales and prototypes. No way that will be available over the counter unless I do it myself!

I'm

About 80km was more precisely 43km yesterday afternoon. 300m long by

100m high above the waterline for one of the three (big ones) sighted - news crew landed by helicopter. Remember this is a similar latitude to the north of Spain! (have it on good authority this has nothing to do with global warming)

I'm starting on a Ub (4-6-0) an Aa (4-6-2) and a Wf (2-6-4t) all at once, based on Bachmann and LGB chassis and worrying about an F - God help me if I ever find 4'6" diameter wheels in 1:24 (A, Ab, K, Ka, Kb, J, Ja, Jb) Have build about 30 wagons and coaches in the last year, pretty basic as befits garden railways (minimal underframe detail, bolts not actually threaded etc) but each one goes a bit further.

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Greg Procter

Would you mind tipping us off as to who that is? I don't buy mail-order very often, but forewarned is forearmed and all that...

If not on-list, by email?

Adrian

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