Peddling Fragrances From Cars?

Smells fishy to me...MHO of course.

Most likely stolen merchandise.

Some time ago a complete stranger offered me three fur coats, I believe it was at 150 euro a piece. The coats were wrapped in clear plastic, he had them in the back of his minivan. The man told me he hadn't made his delivery on time, so he had to sell the items cheap. Don't know about the US, but here in old Youuropa that can only mean one thing: those coats were stolen.

Thanks for the heads up Mark. This scam is news to me. Fortunately and/or unfortunately, I am skeptical of everyone and everything that crosses my path. Like Laura, only in a crowd would I venture over to someone's car for a peek. But, it would be my luck that it would be a trunk full of kittens, and I would be toting home a brand new family to feed along with the hoard I already have. Best to just keep my blinders on when I go out but staying alert for the wolves in sheep's clothing. So sad! [smiley=cry.gif]

heh. Â*I'll bet there is more larceny going on inside the dealership than out... Â*[smiley=rolleyes.gif]


Hm. Â*I think most people visit the car dealership expecting to be robbed?! Â*[smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]


I sniffed Candie's Men once at T.J. Maxx. Actually, I prefer the ether. [smiley=wink.gif]

Sorry but the 'Smell this perfume myth has been doing the web rounds of a few years now.

If ether was that good they would still use it in operations and would not have to inject you. One sniff in the open air and you are out. YES!!! NO!!! When ether was used they put it on cotton wood and pressed onto your mouth and nose to knock you out. It did not happen straight away,despite what the movies show. So spraying into the ozone will not knock you out. All hail the urban myth.

The usual story is they want to rape the women they approach.

ETHER?

That all sounds like an urban myth. I used to date a girl who was incredibly stupid and gullible. She always forwards the most annoying e-mails to me. The BS story about the Mrs. Fields cookie recipe....the picture of that person getting lifted out of the ocean by helicopter right as a shark is jumping out of the water, chomping at his feet...The worst thing is, she's always like five years behind on all the myths too, which is annoying as all hell. But she's just a whole other subject... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

Who are these people who start these myths? I remember in fifth grade, when the all the girls had to go watch "the film", about puberty, how we guys felt so left out of it. So to put a little fun into it, being the little prankster I was, I told some of the guys that , "yes, guys DO have their own periods, only TWICE a month, and out of the alimentary organ, and they alternate in color, red and green..." All the misinformation I could give out I did. And by the end of the week, ALL the other boys in my class were talking about all the horrible things that were going to happen to their bodies in due time. Of course, they asked some adults and discovered that I had been screwing with them, and beat me up, but it was worth it.

So what does that story have to do with anything? Nothing I guess.

But back OT, I've seen people who sell FAKE scents out of cars, but they don't come in the real bottles. They come in standard generic bottles, along with the b.s. story that "I work for Calvin Klein, and was just at a convention and have to get rid of these as part of some promotional thing, or something, and the reason they come in THESE bottles is because it we get the cologne from Calvin Klein and bottle it ourselves to save you money"

Because, yes, Calvin Klein wants everyone to buy his products as cheaply as possible.

Also, I look through their products and also find knock-offs of Hugo and Polo Sport. So why is a CK "rep" selling these competitors as well?

I bet they're knock-offs, just like all the "designer perfumes" you see all over New York's Canal Street, right next to the fake Birkin and Louis Vuitton bags.

Oh, look, only ten dollars for Eternity! Yeah, right.

Bad Boy [smiley=grin.gif] Very funny!

Urban Ledgend for certain. Â*Check out http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
& http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/kno...fume/index.htm

Before God, I do despise those urban legends! Especially the ones I call Lifetime Legends (Lifetime, for those not familiar, being a television network famous for showing woman-in-danger movies)

Every time a Lifetime-Legend surfaces I get bombarded with e-mails from nervous, none-too-bright relatives just trying to protect a Delicate, Helpless Young Lady! (That would be me. It gets old very, very fast) Â*[smiley=angry.gif]

"Lifetime Legends"LOL!

I could just see a Made-for-TV movie of this urban legend: Here's what TV guide might have to say...

"Stolen Eternity- Suffocated by Obsession";(Lifetime Network; 2005, 120 mins.); Stars Melissa Gilbert, Treat Williams, Robert Davi, and one of the lesser Baldwin Brothers,( the fat blond one, sure why not), and Jim J. Bullock.

"Stolen Eternity:Suffocated by Obsession" is the story of a woman, Catherine (Gilbert), who is victimized and brutalized, when she is accosted and drugged by two men (Davi, Baldwin) posing as transient perfume sellers, known to authorities as the "Giorgio Brothers". These two criminals lure women to their car to smell perfume, but instead use ether to drug the women and kidnap them. Treat Williams, plays her dilligent husband, Clay, who in a last ditch effort to find his wife, enlists the help of perfume expert, Eugene la Fey (Bullock) to help sniff for clues.

The sad thing is this sounds like the kind of movie my dad would be watching at home in his recliner after dinner.

OMW! Ether? I doubt it for some reason. Just a sleezy guy with some knockoffs or something...low life.

I had a similar experience once, too.

A few years back, I was in a (now-closed) bookstore and some guy came up with a backpack full of fragrances. He said that he just came back from a fragrance convention and had excess inventory.

First, he tried to push a copy of Polo Sport on me. It didn't smell one bit like Polo Sport, but he insisted that it was the real deal, just in a different bottle. He even went as far as to say that it came from DuPont and that DuPont makes 60% of the frags in the world (which I didn't believe). He said that "his" Polo Sport was in a 3.3 oz bottle for $30, while a real bottle of Polo Sport sold for $50 for a 1.7 oz bottle.

Then, he tried to push a really bad dupe of Nautica's Latitude Longitude, a scent that had only been on the market for around 6 months at the time. Same drivel. I also saw some ripoffs of White Diamonds (!) and Opium in his bag, but he was only pushing the men's stuff.

Finally, I asked "May I see the packaging?" He said "sure". I saw that it was produced by some knockoff fragrance manufacturer. Shortly afterwards, the bookstore's owner told him that he was soliciting on her property and told him to get out. He reluctantly agreed.

Now, here's an unusual twist: As soon as I got home, I logged onto Polo.com and found out that Polo Sport doesn't even come in 1.7 oz bottles, only 2.5 and 4.2 oz bottles. (The price of the 2.5 oz bottle at the time was $42.)

So, it's not just the girls who've been affected by this.

And no, the smellies weren't ether. [smiley=laugh.gif]

it is this type of cruel scepticism that makes me reluctant to tell people about the time i was abducted by aliens (and, yes, they did wear fragrance).

AZTEC

I wonder if this guy selling the scents has a contraband of watches, too. People like him always bring to mind the flasher on the corner wearing a trenchcoat, waiting for their next naive victim. [smiley=cheesy.gif]