Re: OT- traveling barn painters

Posted by KEH on August 02, 2007 at 15:33:39 from (209.213.17.90):

In Reply to: OT- traveling barn painters posted by mike,indiana on August 02, 2007 at 12:28:05:

Researcher came up with a good article. I live in SC and we are aware of the Irish Travelers. They will pull scams here but not too close to home. The Murphy Village is in North Augusta on highway 25. It started out as a trailer park but the houses have been getting more luxurious down through the years. A step above the Mcmansions the developers build, with very fancy front doors with decorative glass. I am told they leave a new house vacant for a year so the evil spirits will leave and at some point the house is blessed by a priest. Friends of mine lived in Augusta, she worked at a jewelers and said some of the Traveler girls were known to shoplift.
A guy with one of the last names listed in Researcher's article has been painting barn roofs with aluminum paint for me for years. Can't really complain about the job, the paint seems to last as well as any other I've bought. Of course the first time he came by years ago I asked to see the paint. At that time his selling point was that the paint had tar in it, which appearantly did, and it lasted ok. Appearently his business model was to develop a route and try for repeat customers. A lot of scams people pull would be just as profitable for the effort they put in them if they would deal honestly with their customers. This guy that deals with me has had the same employee, a black guy, all these years, and he trades trucks each year. On the gasoline thinning scam, that has been going on for year and was known to me before I started dealing with this painter. Didn't realize he was a Irish Gypsy until there was a TV program on the a few years ago. Their activities hav gotten the attention of the state tax people and they are being watched a little more closely. Hey, it's one thing to cheat people, but quite another to cheat the government.
Anyway, it a good idea to be suspicious of people who drive up in your yard offering you a bargain. Like someone said, sometimes its a scam to get your attention while an accomplice breaks into your house.

KEH

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