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Comment by sanex

20 days ago

Those old retiring leatherworker ads were really making the rounds on YouTube a few months ago. Got me to click but Spidey senses went off.

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shmeeed  19 days ago

I'm surprised it's such a big thing. Is this a style of ad common in the US?

To me the whole premise always seemed ridiculously fishy. Why would a retiring artisan commission a Youtube ad campaign, of all things?

  • pndy  17 days ago

    The first variants of this type of scam have appeared in Poland some 3-4 years ago on facebook. A poor private business owner had to close his/her/their business due to retiring, or place being devastated after the robbery or by fireworks explosion. And they're in a dire need of selling all their goods at a very attractive prices fast.

    There were leatherworkers, tailors, shoe makers, or as below jewellers/goldsmiths

    https://old.reddit.com/r/Polska/comments/1ltpt35 - from 7 months ago, this one also comes with a fake review from "Żuromin A." - which isn't even a male name but the name of a small village in northern Masovian voivodeship