Koz wrote:


Terry wrote:

Be very careful. They may be Irish Travelers. Check out
http://www.fraudtech.bizland.com/travelers.htm . They usually
represent the
Rebel Tool and Equipment Co. of South Carolina but have used other
equipment
names.

Terry

Now that you mention it, it does sound a LOT like the same kind of scam.
Same glossy sales pages, same high list price and low sell price, etc.
Everything dressed to look legitimate but probably junk quality if even
that good. Glad that I walked away from it. It wasn't the company
mentioned in the web page but it was'nt a famaliar enough brand to say
that the stuff was "real". (travers tool? something like that? just
can't remember)

Good link, thanks Terry.

I don't see these in my neck of the woods, but we do get the barn roof
painters from down south every summer, same sort of style but southern
accents instead of Irish..

The ones that we get around here that really **** me off are young,
college-student looking types that will come into a business and sell
trash from a big black nylon shoulder bag. I went around with the wife
over them, she viewed them as just people trying to make a living and
couldn't see my point that they were burning her customers in her
establishment, with the result that the ripped-off customers would see
her as the source of their troubles. She finally saw that it was true,
but it took a long time..

I finally solved the issue by catching one at the door- when asked
nicely once, and then told not nicely again, he refused to leave.
Offering to punch his nose 'till I couldn't reach him anymore, convinced
him to leave. The fact that he was the last one to show up demonstrated
that they were all of the same bunch and keeping track of the suckers.

John