How Do They Do It?
27 January 2009, 04:22 PM
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How Do They Do It?
Pikeys I mean ........ I get my spade out the shed and start digging half my lawn over to gravel it - within 2 spade digs a transit rolls up .... "Let's take the worry out of that for you, mate" Pikey shouts from the window.
"No thanks" I say ...... "We can do you a loverly drive, good price" ...... "I'm doing it myself" ....... "Lets give you a quote" ...... "No thanks" ...... "£80 and we'll take all the rubbish away and gravel it all for you"
"Look lads - NOT interested"
So, my question is this ....... how the hell can they smell a 'job' at 5 miles??
And why FFS will they not take the first NO as a frigging NO!!
Mind you - £80 did seem pretty cheap ........ of course, what they don't tell you is £80 is PER FOOT!!! And they will 'escort' you to your bank ......
Seagulls are the same, get your picnic out and there are 50 seagulls sat watching you ..... they must use the very same technique - what is it?
"No thanks" I say ...... "We can do you a loverly drive, good price" ...... "I'm doing it myself" ....... "Lets give you a quote" ...... "No thanks" ...... "£80 and we'll take all the rubbish away and gravel it all for you"
"Look lads - NOT interested"
So, my question is this ....... how the hell can they smell a 'job' at 5 miles??
And why FFS will they not take the first NO as a frigging NO!!
Mind you - £80 did seem pretty cheap ........ of course, what they don't tell you is £80 is PER FOOT!!!
And they will 'escort' you to your bank ...... Seagulls are the same, get your picnic out and there are 50 seagulls sat watching you ..... they must use the very same technique - what is it?
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27 January 2009, 04:40 PM
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It's the same at one of the companies I work for. A flooring contractors.
Within minutes of the lads dumping some carpet tiles and odd bits of carpet into the skip, the white transit hurtles into the car park and pulls it out and has it in the van before the lads have even had a cup of tea
Within minutes of the lads dumping some carpet tiles and odd bits of carpet into the skip, the white transit hurtles into the car park and pulls it out and has it in the van before the lads have even had a cup of tea
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29 January 2009, 09:32 PM
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completely off topic but .... has anyone noticed the fleabay advert at the bottom of this thread? lol! 
as for the pikey's, ya can't knock a bloke for trying to make a few honest quid now can ya?! .... £80 sounds like a bargain ..... one thing i will say though is make sure they're irish pikeys cos man those boys can dig some! lol! ..... might wanna make sure all the doors are locked and the curtains are drawn though 
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as for the pikey's, ya can't knock a bloke for trying to make a few honest quid now can ya?!
.... £80 sounds like a bargain ..... one thing i will say though is make sure they're irish pikeys cos man those boys can dig some! lol! ..... might wanna make sure all the doors are locked and the curtains are drawn though lol
29 January 2009, 09:55 PM
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30 January 2009, 10:18 AM
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LOL just found this thread. Yesterday we were finishing up a Driveway in Dunstable, a fellow from the house down the road wanders over and asks me to pop down and have a look at the drive he had done just 6 months ago. I knew it was pikeys as soon as I saw it, deep ruts through the block paving meaning there is little or no base! Whats a mess, the manhole covers had collapsed etc...
The cost - £4k! and apparently the guys that did it started at 8am and finished at 1pm!!!! Shocking. The poor bloke was gutted when he saw the job we had just completed, he would have been even more gutted if I had told him that I would have charged 3k for a complete spec job on his drive!
It seems that people do themselves no favors, you would be amazed at how many driveway jobs I quote and dont get, only to drive past and see their new sunken gardens a couple of months later Doenst seem to make sense to me to save £5/6/7/800 but make the front of your £250k house look like sh1te!
The cost - £4k! and apparently the guys that did it started at 8am and finished at 1pm!!!! Shocking. The poor bloke was gutted when he saw the job we had just completed, he would have been even more gutted if I had told him that I would have charged 3k for a complete spec job on his drive!
It seems that people do themselves no favors, you would be amazed at how many driveway jobs I quote and dont get, only to drive past and see their new sunken gardens a couple of months later
Doenst seem to make sense to me to save £5/6/7/800 but make the front of your £250k house look like sh1te!
30 January 2009, 10:53 AM
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The world famous traveler workmanship. 1"inch base, bit of sand and get the young fella to whack it...Thats how to make a driveway.
I think you did the double whammy, the can smell both jobs and the metal in your tools. It was the scam drive/scrap metal combo that gravitated them to you.
I think you did the double whammy, the can smell both jobs and the metal in your tools. It was the scam drive/scrap metal combo that gravitated them to you.
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I wanna caravan for me ma 
I watched a set of pikeys jump in a workmens trench- in the road last week.
1 pm, broad daylight: busy main road.
and pull all the pipe out of it. looked at their car- would you believe a long wheelbase suzuki SJ13 thing-- it was stuffed full of sheathed electric cable from the road. Must have been driving round Bradford.
myself and my colleague thought better of challenging them in our suits.
I watched a set of pikeys jump in a workmens trench- in the road last week.
1 pm, broad daylight: busy main road.
and pull all the pipe out of it. looked at their car- would you believe a long wheelbase suzuki SJ13 thing-- it was stuffed full of sheathed electric cable from the road. Must have been driving round Bradford.
myself and my colleague thought better of challenging them in our suits.
