Dealing with travelers when selling things

[and31]

TimmyMallett said:

Someone told me once that saying 'It's not for sale' would be translated as 'I won't sell it you you' which could be taken negatively and personally. This is, (my understanding), important to the traveller community.

A better approach is to say 'It's very precious to me and wouldn't sell it for less that X' where X is 10 times it's value. That way you're not refusing, but make it clear it's very valuable to you and that way they can leave without feeling you're just telling them to fk off.

why pander to them? I’ve happily told a traveller to fk off before-they don’t like it but that’s tough -I don’t like them asking if I’ll sell them some diesel .politely saying no still brings the same aggression from them anyway.
they will rarely get into a proper confrontation if they are alone,despite threatening you with all sorts.

Edited by and31 on Friday 17th May 19:04

[OzzyR1]

Doesn't matter if a traveller or any other person, trust your gut instinct and if you have any doubt, don't engage further.

[Short Grain]

Once had an traveller type try to sell me a wide screen tv when they first came out so quite a few years ago now. Out of the back of a moving Transit, in Sainsburys carpark when I was going to do a bit of shopping ffs! I told him no and he followed me, getting more aggressive as I continued to refuse it! Thankfully he hadn't seen me get out of the car. Finally told him to fk off and that I now had their reg number which I'd give to the police when I rang them from the customer phone inside Sainsburys! He shut the door and they drove off quite sharpish, with the tv they'd probably just nicked! I did tell Sainsburys security but left it to them to involve the police if they wanted to. Dodgy fkers.

[r3g]

Stick Legs said:

....deals with the travelling community...

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Get a CCTV camera from Amazon. Once they leave write down all the vehicle reg numbers etc. If they do steal from you at least you have some sort of evidence to go to the Police with, but in my experience and friendly attitude backed up with a CCTV camera will mean they won't steal from you.

This guy has clearly had no dealings with them whatsoever.

[Spare tyre]

Short Grain said:

Once had an traveller type try to sell me a wide screen tv when they first came out so quite a few years ago now. Out of the back of a moving Transit, in Sainsburys carpark when I was going to do a bit of shopping ffs! I told him no and he followed me, getting more aggressive as I continued to refuse it! Thankfully he hadn't seen me get out of the car. Finally told him to fk off and that I now had their reg number which I'd give to the police when I rang them from the customer phone inside Sainsburys! He shut the door and they drove off quite sharpish, with the tv they'd probably just nicked! I did tell Sainsburys security but left it to them to involve the police if they wanted to. Dodgy fkers.

My friend dipst Ben purchased a tv box with some large bottle of water in it from some Irish business men

[anonymoususer]

r3g said:

Stick Legs said:

....deals with the travelling community...

[...]

Get a CCTV camera from Amazon. Once they leave write down all the vehicle reg numbers etc. If they do steal from you at least you have some sort of evidence to go to the Police with, but in my experience and friendly attitude backed up with a CCTV camera will mean they won't steal from you.

This guy has clearly had no dealings with them whatsoever.

I'm sorry to say it raised a smile with me

[KAgantua]

pork911 said:

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Deranged Rover said:

Jambur said:

I'm Irish, it bugs me a bit when I see people here equating Irish and travellers as one and the same.

My wife is Irish.

It bugs her that most travellers in the UK have Irish accents!

My wife is English, of Irish parents. We spend a fair bit of time in Dublin and Donegal, where we have a massive extended family, we are getting her and our 9yo an Irish passport (sadly I do not qualify).

We live in the Thames Valley. Every year we get a summertime influx of Irish travellers who are completely lawless. A good friend of mine is a local police officer, he can list endless crimes they commit until moved on, where they continue said criminality.

Nobody I know equates Irish people with travellers. Lots of people equate Irish travellers with criminality. Until they as a cohort stop committing crime above and beyond the levels of the local population in a given area it will always be thus.

Remember the strip in Viz? This is how Wiki reports it: The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called "The Thieving Gypsy bds". UK tabloid newspaper The Sun ran a story suggesting that the principal Roma man who initiated the complaints against Viz ("Don't call us thieving gypsies, says thieving gypsy") had been found guilty of handling stolen property at Preston Crown Court. He had, but in truth the man in question had been supportive of the comic in his correspondence with them and had not made any complaint against the strip. In the same issue Viz ran a short strip called "The Nice, Honest Gypsies", featuring a kindly Gypsy woman selling pegs door-to-door and helpfully returning forgotten change

and what are, given your wife, your comic referenced views on those of immigrant stock?

In English maybe?

perhaps mouth the words as you read?

Nope, my point was your sentence does not make sense.