Having recently blagged a free years gym membership for doing the "after" fliming for the documentry there - I was wondering what other great deals or products other BCG members had managed to blag for nothing?
Blagging
Quote: bigfella @ August 16 2009, 6:51 PM BSTHaving recently blagged a free years gym membership for doing the "after" fliming for the documentry there - I was wondering what other great deals or products other BCG members had managed to blag for nothing?
Apart from perfume, cosmetics and clothes and invites, the weirdest things I've blagged were a chiropody session and a year's worth of fake tan, via this article.
http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/beauty/fake_tan/index.html
I don't do it, wouldn't know how.
Literally the only thing I can think of is the other day in Top Shop I convinced the guy to let me have the nice fancy wooden hanger my top came on. They were supposed to keep them.
Rock and f**king roll, me.
I noticed recently that my local corner shop never tests the cigarette lighters before handing them over to punters.
So when my lighter is empty, I go buy a new one of the same model, leave the shop, and go back a minute later with an unlit fag in my mouth and ask why they just sold me an empty lighter.
Free lighter!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 16 2009, 6:56 PM BSTApart from perfume, cosmetics and clothes and invites, the weirdest things I've blagged were a chiropody session and a year's worth of fake tan, via this article.
http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/beauty/fake_tan/index.html
That seems to be a shit load of stuff - were these work related?
Quote: zooo @ August 16 2009, 7:09 PM BSTRock and f**king roll, me.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ August 16 2009, 7:17 PM BSTI noticed recently that my local corner shop never tests the cigarette lighters before handing them over to punters.
So when my lighter is empty, I go buy a new one of the same model, leave the shop, and go back a minute later with an unlit fag in my mouth and ask why they just sold me an empty lighter.
Free lighter!
Isn't that actually stealing? 
Quote: bigfella @ August 16 2009, 7:22 PM BSTThat seems to be a shit load of stuff - were these work related?
Yeah. Most of it was sent as freebies, but often you'd phone up a PR and tell them you're writing an article and they'd send you related stuff from their clients.
Quote: bigfella @ August 16 2009, 7:22 PM BSTIsn't that actually stealing?
Yes. Yes it is. 
I have done my fair share of blagging, I have to say. Not always free, mostly discounts though but free stuff has included beauty products, hair styles, clothes and jewellery, sweets, toys, computer stuff, and a couple of days out.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ August 16 2009, 7:17 PM BSTI noticed recently that my local corner shop never tests the cigarette lighters before handing them over to punters.
So when my lighter is empty, I go buy a new one of the same model, leave the shop, and go back a minute later with an unlit fag in my mouth and ask why they just sold me an empty lighter.
Free lighter!
Erm that's not blagging; that's fraud.
Yeah Kevin. Freeze motherf**ker! Tobacconist Vice!
I blagged a train once. Got caught though and went to jail. Then I escaped and went on the run to Brazil. Now I'm back and pretty much dead. Who'd a thunk it?
Quote: Lee Henman @ August 16 2009, 10:32 PM BSTYeah Kevin. Freeze motherf**ker! Tobacconist Vice!
They're nasty bastards. But no where near as scary as the Tobogganist Vice!
Is that the Ghost of Micheal Jackson chasing them>?
Quote: billwill @ August 16 2009, 10:12 PM BSTErm that's not blagging; that's fraud.
Technically, I think it's obtaining goods or services by deception.
(which is why I've never actually done it)