Tenerife Scams
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A warning if your are older and holidaying in Tenerife. I thought I was savvy regarding getting ripped off but no I got caught.
BBC website informing that a gang of Asians have been ripping off holiday makers in Tenerife. People have lost thousands of pounds taken from their bank account, we were lucky? Only cost €80.
Walking along main drag and got hooked into shop, I had bought another charger for I pad, we have iPhones and I pads and only one charger so bought another. Salesman offered to sell us a generic tablet that had all the tv channels, illegally, we had reserved an apartment for next year so was persuaded by SHMBO to buy. It is worth £200 in UK I was informed. Against better judgement I bought this piece of s
t at €80.
Afterwards realised I had been conned, too late I had shook hands on the deal. I was fizzing!
Back in UK tried to sell it, was offered £20 by local company that specialises in second hand electrical goods.
Trying to think how to get even, take it back to them and ask them if they are willing to buy, painting pavement outside their premises with “scammers are us” . Getting fake euros to buy an i pad in the shop?
I am fizzing, I thought I was too switched on to get ripped off, apparently not.
Shop is on avenue los Americas, west of Pandora’s
Avoid these clowns
BBC website informing that a gang of Asians have been ripping off holiday makers in Tenerife. People have lost thousands of pounds taken from their bank account, we were lucky? Only cost €80.
Walking along main drag and got hooked into shop, I had bought another charger for I pad, we have iPhones and I pads and only one charger so bought another. Salesman offered to sell us a generic tablet that had all the tv channels, illegally, we had reserved an apartment for next year so was persuaded by SHMBO to buy. It is worth £200 in UK I was informed. Against better judgement I bought this piece of s
t at €80.Afterwards realised I had been conned, too late I had shook hands on the deal. I was fizzing!
Back in UK tried to sell it, was offered £20 by local company that specialises in second hand electrical goods.
Trying to think how to get even, take it back to them and ask them if they are willing to buy, painting pavement outside their premises with “scammers are us” . Getting fake euros to buy an i pad in the shop?
I am fizzing, I thought I was too switched on to get ripped off, apparently not.
Shop is on avenue los Americas, west of Pandora’s
Avoid these clowns
EmailAddress said:
I think this is the perfect summary.
Commiserations on your gullibility OP.
However, as you are going to Tenerife next year I have some beans you can buy and you would not BELIEVE what happens when you plant them in that volcanic earth.
To you, 50 quid.
Mercdriver said:
A warning if your are older and holidaying in Tenerife. I thought I was savvy regarding getting ripped off but no I got caught.
BBC website informing that a gang of Asians have been ripping off holiday makers in Tenerife. People have lost thousands of pounds taken from their bank account, we were lucky? Only cost €80.
Walking along main drag and got hooked into shop, I had bought another charger for I pad, we have iPhones and I pads and only one charger so bought another. Salesman offered to sell us a generic tablet that had all the tv channels, illegally, we had reserved an apartment for next year so was persuaded by SHMBO to buy. It is worth £200 in UK I was informed. Against better judgement I bought this piece of st at €80.
Afterwards realised I had been conned, too late I had shook hands on the deal. I was fizzing!
Back in UK tried to sell it, was offered £20 by local company that specialises in second hand electrical goods.
Trying to think how to get even, take it back to them and ask them if they are willing to buy, painting pavement outside their premises with “scammers are us” . Getting fake euros to buy an i pad in the shop?
I am fizzing, I thought I was too switched on to get ripped off, apparently not.
Shop is on avenue los Americas, west of Pandora’s
Avoid these clowns
You knowingly tried to buy something that claimed to illegally give access to a bunch of pay TV channels and are now complaining that they ripped you offBBC website informing that a gang of Asians have been ripping off holiday makers in Tenerife. People have lost thousands of pounds taken from their bank account, we were lucky? Only cost €80.
Walking along main drag and got hooked into shop, I had bought another charger for I pad, we have iPhones and I pads and only one charger so bought another. Salesman offered to sell us a generic tablet that had all the tv channels, illegally, we had reserved an apartment for next year so was persuaded by SHMBO to buy. It is worth £200 in UK I was informed. Against better judgement I bought this piece of s
t at €80.Afterwards realised I had been conned, too late I had shook hands on the deal. I was fizzing!
Back in UK tried to sell it, was offered £20 by local company that specialises in second hand electrical goods.
Trying to think how to get even, take it back to them and ask them if they are willing to buy, painting pavement outside their premises with “scammers are us” . Getting fake euros to buy an i pad in the shop?
I am fizzing, I thought I was too switched on to get ripped off, apparently not.
Shop is on avenue los Americas, west of Pandora’s
Avoid these clowns
It’s very much like complaining that the stolen car stereo you bought down the pub doesn’t work
Maybe stand outside their shop and paint “scammers” on the pavement whilst wearing a sandwich board that says “I am complicit in criminal enterprise and quite probably organised crime”
That’s sure to “learn” them
number2 said:
There was a programme advertised to be on TV this evening, about holiday scams... probably taken from on there... it's a highly improbable story.
Then again
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Get your facts right before criticising, it did happen I bought it so that I could watch British TV when I was in Tenerife in 2024. No intention of using it in UK. No need to, have Sky subscription which gives me access to what I want in UK.Then again
.Another keyboard warrior shot down, painted on side of I pad
Mercdriver said:
number2 said:
There was a programme advertised to be on TV this evening, about holiday scams... probably taken from on there... it's a highly improbable story.
Then again.
Get your facts right before criticising, it did happen I bought it so that I could watch British TV when I was in Tenerife in 2024. No intention of using it in UK. No need to, have Sky subscription which gives me access to what I want in UK.Then again
.Another keyboard warrior shot down, painted on side of I pad
You got scammed while in the process of trying to scam the BBC / Sky.
Nice one.
Mercdriver said:
number2 said:
There was a programme advertised to be on TV this evening, about holiday scams... probably taken from on there... it's a highly improbable story.
Then again.
Get your facts right before criticising, it did happen I bought it so that I could watch British TV when I was in Tenerife in 2024. No intention of using it in UK. No need to, have Sky subscription which gives me access to what I want in UK.Then again
.Another keyboard warrior shot down, painted on side of I pad
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