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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 4456725, member: 18716"]It's a good and cheap learning experience. Back in the 70's and 80's my dad used to do fairs and markets, saw him get taken a few times and the lesson always stuck with me. Funniest was a few marine cased aneroid barometers back when they were a hot ticket. He agreed the deal, the hawker bailed, then when he opened them up none had any mechanisms, they were just cases with hands glued to the dial.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was always the butter wouldn't melt old ladies hawking stuff that were the worst though![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 4456725, member: 18716"]It's a good and cheap learning experience. Back in the 70's and 80's my dad used to do fairs and markets, saw him get taken a few times and the lesson always stuck with me. Funniest was a few marine cased aneroid barometers back when they were a hot ticket. He agreed the deal, the hawker bailed, then when he opened them up none had any mechanisms, they were just cases with hands glued to the dial. It was always the butter wouldn't melt old ladies hawking stuff that were the worst though![/QUOTE]
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