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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2009, 09:35:38 PM »
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I just wish Clinton Cards charged as little.

They should - it's their ex-stock that I'm importing, for pennies.   ;)

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Having worked the markets myself ~ during a temporary blip in the change over from self to paid employment I know exactly what you mean.


I sold out from a profitable businesses years ago because of the headaches and hassles from miserable customers and then disappeared to Cyprus to get away from them all.  When I decided that we ought to earn a few Euro's rather than sitting on our arses from summer to summer, I deliberately chose something that I thought wouldn't give us any grief.  How wrong I was.

How can anyone get so wound up over a sodding envelope?

Anyhow, thanks for all your welcomes, and warnings.   ;D

I'll now just check this post for spelling and grammar - I don't wish to fall foul of Snoops.   angel1

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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2009, 07:28:53 AM »
Which market s this at by the way...  rubschin:
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2009, 09:13:08 AM »
Nick is the resident English Grammar Pedant ~ Try misplacing your apostrophes when he is around.  noooo:
I only chime in occasionally to keep him up to the mark ~ You are quite safe ........ unless one of us is in p*ss taking mode.

The Apostrophe Police are hard core here   eeek: - trained by the KGB at Guantenomo Bay

However us eejits (by that I mean me  cry: ) actually do learn a thing or two occasionally - only on the grammar front of course . As I wumman I know everything about everything else anyway  lol:
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2009, 09:15:21 AM »
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Guantenomo Bay

Where?  rubschin:
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #19 on: March 09, 2009, 09:16:49 AM »
I couldn't even be bothered to Spell Check that - but I thought it would be as good as - should have known better  lol:
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2009, 09:17:55 AM »

The Apostrophe Police are hard core here   eeek: - trained by the KGB at Guantenomo Bay

However us eejits (by that I mean me  cry: ) actually do learn a thing or two occasionally - only on the grammar front of course .

Grammar but not Current Affairs/History it would seem.  ::)

 
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2009, 09:19:27 AM »
She may know something we don't, like
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2009, 09:22:16 AM »
Grammar but not Current Affairs/History it would seem.  ::)

So shoot me  Shrugs:
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #23 on: March 09, 2009, 09:23:12 AM »
She may know something we don't, like

"Comrade Colonel Demeanorvska"  rubschin:
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2009, 09:24:41 AM »
Grammar but not Current Affairs/History it would seem.  ::)

So shoot me  Shrugs:

I don't think so.

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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2009, 09:27:18 AM »
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2009, 09:30:45 AM »
She may know something we don't, like

"Comrade Colonel Demeanorvska"  rubschin:



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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2009, 09:36:48 AM »
Indeed - I also have the box of Milk Tray tucked somewhere discretely  ;)
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2009, 09:45:17 AM »
Indeed - I also have the box of Milk Tray tucked somewhere discretely  ;)

Just a small box I hope?
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Re: Gah!! Compo-chasers and skin-flints.
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2009, 03:46:04 PM »
Stall eh?  rubschin:

Perhaps you should try a new product range.

Cakes for instance. You either bake your own or if you don't have the requisite skill to hand you could buy in a shedfull of those cheap ones they sell in Poundland. You know the ones, so loaded with preservatives the have a shelf life of 14 years.

Of course this alone will not set the market place on fire but if you add a range of locomotives (yes, trains, chuff chuff's etc) this will become a major talking point and will make squillions.

I know it sounds odd but we have it on good authority that such outlets exist.

Welcome aboard and good look for the future.  happy088

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