I'd love to pull a scam and not get caught, but not a dirty scam like this. I'd like to pull a scam that defrauds fat cats out of a reasonable amount of money and donate most of it to charity.
Incidently, I live in what used to be part of Sherwood Forest - it was a seriously large forest back then (for the size of the country!). There are still a few pieces of forest left, although most has been chopped down over the centuries.
For anyone who fancies a bit of 'Robin Hood' culture, there's the 'Major Oak' about 20 miles away, in a still existing piece of the forest - Robin Hood was supposed to have sheltered from the Sherrif's men in the tree.
A man placed a small classified advertisement in the New York Times stating the following: Now's your last chance to send me a dollar. He included an address and received over $100,000 dollars!!! Apparently it was perfectly legal, despite no reason given behind his asking. He screwed up by not claiming that income on his income tax and the IRS slammed him a good one. I think he's poor, to this day!
I've often thought of having an Ebay selling contest where each contestant picks 5 worthless items and tries to get as much as possible by selling them on Ebay. You wouldn't be allowed to misrepresent the item but could embellish as much as you want. I think something like this would be quite fun.
I read that story in the early 80's. I think it was in a news paper article, and in that version an add was placed in a news paper saying "last chance to..." he had to give back the money back.
sam
I can sell you a simple empty dog food can with a socket on the side and you will have a wave guide antenna working (very well as it happens) at 2.4GHz
Pay as much as you think it's worth.
200 year old fruit bowl (antique) worth £1500. No it's worth what your willing to pay.
You can sell anything at any price if the customer is willing to pay, therefore no rip off.