A road they should've gone down already (18 February 2026)

Marcus talks Facebook Marketplace scams, restoring pool tables, and the drama of the Coronation Street and Emmerdale crossover episode!

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be greetings, welcome Headle twelve. My name's Marcus eight
oh seven. We pleased our gorgeous day down south today,
so yeah, avoided most of us. That's exciting. Now get
in touch if you want to be a part of it.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. A lot's happened tonight.
Well not a lot's happened, but there's a few topics
that have sort of read their heads again tonight. So

(00:35):
there's no shortage of things to talk about. Well there
never really is anyway. I mean, you can always talk
about everything, but there's some stuff that seems pretty topical tonight,
and some of it's some of that talkback standard stuff.
They're back talking about dogs and breeds and breeds of
dogs and controlling that, and that's one that Talkbak always
goes fully big on, although nothing ever seems to get
resolved with those breeds of dogs. Also got the situation

(00:58):
where the national government, the cultition government, was going to
be shove already with projects. They're going to start digging, digging, digging,
and now it looks like the Mount Victor, the second tunnel,
the tunnel through Mount Victoria to get from the Willington
CBD to the airport to those eastern suburbs. That now
looks like that might no longer be a thing. I

(01:18):
don't know if you saw about that. So yeah, they
might go to congestion charges insteered.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
The thing about congestion charges of the priced right, it
means that you don't need more tunnels because they're aren't
in the cars wanting to use them, because people are
car pulling or getting public transport or whatever. I don't
know a huge amount, but there's been a bit of
Chris Bishop said maybe it's not the thing, and then
Nikola Willis said, no, we are still going ahead with that,
but clearly not the money. They are said it's all go,

(01:48):
but Transport MINISIP Chris Bishop said that they hold off
on it if congestion charges show that it's not needed.
It's probably a road they should have gone down already.
Think about congestion charges is that the technology is quite
straightforward now and you can click the money quite cheaply.

(02:11):
Few cameras was being bits and bobs. You've got it.
So once upon a time congestion charge is very hard
to enforce but now much much easier. So there is
that too. You might want to mention you that that
it might be a particularly Willington eccentric poor on Winnington.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
No way.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Doesn't seem as though there's any kind of joy or
understanding around more point what's happening there? But yeah, I
just put that out there. The other thing too, there
is a scam alert that someone's told me about. And
this is a scam that's familiar. There is a big
scam going around on Facebook marketplace queen and king sized beards.

(02:48):
Hundreds of them have been listed in the past few
weeks in South and Ontargo, well below market value. The
sellers our Facebook accounts that have been set up in two,
twenty five, five and twenty twenty six. They only have
about one photo that's been copied off Google. They offered
delivery to pick up up. They offer delivery or pick

(03:09):
up and they ask for fifty percent deposit. They say
there is a mess of interest and insist on delivery
when you ask them for the pick up address, so
they say you can pick up or you can get
it delivered. When you say I want to pick it
up they say, well, actually we're actually decided to do
delivery only now, whoop, whoop, scam alert. I know two

(03:31):
people in court out the police are aware. Be careful people.
The brother Johnny has emailed that too. So yeah, I
don't I've had a ready. I don't love marketplace only
because I don't really understand. I've always been warned off
buying anything on it because it always sounds so sketchy.
They say you can only ever pick things up and
you only have a shop locally. Well, I don't want
to shop locally because most of the stuff's been sold

(03:52):
and brought away from Bluff. But anyway, you might comment
on that. You might have some understanding about that also tonight,
So congestion charges to begin with, you think that's going
to be a thing, and marketplace and the scams if
there's anything else that you want to chuck into the
mixt tonight, I guess quite literally. And also to the weather,
wow it slips now. Ah, there's been more states of

(04:17):
emergency declared this year than all of last year. Now
that's pretty amazing. So that's the concern. I don't know
what you say about that. I wouldn't want to be
living on a house. I wouldn't be living in a
house on the top of a cliff. That's seems sketchy
because there'd be a huge amount of worry. What would

(04:37):
you do now? Would you sell and bail knowing the
next owner might have to put up with it? Or
what do you do? Be a terrible projectimate to begin?
Wouldn't it horrible? So yeah, you might want to comment
on that also too, So a lot out there if
you want to be a part of the show. Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty your show anything goes
nine to nine to detext People are mentioning the T

(04:59):
twenty but I'm pretty sure Australia can still go to
the final eight if they buy tickets. Ah, I think
that's the way that one works anyway. I don't know
if we've got T twenty nine, but I'll do my
bestcuit your dad on that eight thirteen oh eight hundred
eighty tenenty and nine two nine two de ticts. I

(05:20):
hope the weather's better where you are, too, people, so
get in touch you want to talk, Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two deticts with
it till midnight. There's a bit going on, you can
pack your topic and you can start the discussion going
in whatever direction you want. Yep, so there we go,
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two deticts. I will keep you update on news throughout

(05:42):
the course of the evening. Also, but let's start with
Facebook and the scams, if that's something that you have
aware of, that one, it's always we haven't had any
scams for this year so far. Always good to get
people aware of that. That's happening also tonight. So yep,
that's the situation. But if there's anything else you want
to mention talk about, start the whole discussion going with.
I don't know what well Antonians think about that fact

(06:04):
that the tunnel now looks like it's not going to
go ahead. Maybe people thought it wasn't going to happen anyway,
because these projects are always on again and off again.
So yes, you might want to mention that. By the way,
if you thought of climbing Everest, you're going have to
climb a tall mountain first. You've got to prove you've
summitted a seven thousand meter mountain at least once to

(06:26):
prove you've got the chops, which is kind of a
bit of a blund instrument, wouldn't you say it is
to me? But that's the way it's going to go
with that one. So yes, you got to do your apprenticeship.
Now you couldn't climb You've got to climb a seven
thousand meter one, but you couldn't climb Mount Cook because

(06:48):
that's just over half that three seven, seven hundred and
twenty four used to be more. I think the top
fell off. I remember that used to be higher. I
think a whole lot came down an avalanche, like rock
and stuff. I don't know how my chart used to be.
Someone might know. Get in touch if you want to
start the whole run one name as Marcus, welcome. Just

(07:10):
trying to look at hi. How how high Mount Cook
used to be?

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Ten meters came off. It used to be three thousand,
seven hundred and sixty four meters. Now it's three thousand,
seven hundred and twenty four. Oh that's not quite right.
Oh so the collapse of the summit ridge removed ten
meters of rock and ice, and subsequent erosion of the
raining ice cap reduced the peak to its current height. Gosh,

(07:36):
that's that's the forces of nature at work visibly. So
it's forty meters shorter than used to be. It's pretty interesting,
almost unbelievable. That's the way we go here til twelve
one MS Marcus welcome, Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty if you want to text nine to nine two.
We are on to use scammers and we're following those
stories on marketplace. Don't buy a bed with just one photo.

(07:59):
Who your rosters is? Marcus, welcome him?

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Malcam one two three four nine. He learned that a
primary school's mountain in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
What's it now? Though?

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
They've changed it to meters but one two three four nine.
It just rolled off your tongue in those days.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
But Ross, yeah, right, you know it's not one two
three four nine anymore, don't you?

Speaker 5 (08:23):
No? I know, but you asked what was it originally?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, but it's now one two two one eight.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
It doesn't roll off your tongue the same.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Not the same. I like how you call me Malcolm.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Right, Hey, look when our neighbor was down there climbing
Amount Cook when they had the avalanche, and he had
a video and he showed us the slip, and it
was greens and reds and orange and pinks of the
slip as the rock slid off the face and caused
friction and lightning and all sorts of shard of incredible colors.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
He just happened to be up there at that particular
time taking a photo of video, taking a video at night.
And he showed this when he came home, and he said,
this is the most incredible thing he had ever seen
in his life.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
That does sound like incredible. Okay, you haven't.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Climbed and have your ross, no, no, but I've been
up the top of Bellam Bellamash. I went up when
I was seventeen. I went up one side of the
Tasman Glacier with my father when I was sixteen, just
before I started work, and we went up one side higher.
Guide went up one side of the Tasman Glacier up
and down back to the other. We were up there

(09:35):
for about five or six days, and my father worked
on the gold Ridge in Glesbie's Beach and the depression,
and he went across from on a few days off
they had. He went across from Gilesbie's Beach over to
the Hermitage and back in the old days, you know,
in the thirties, So.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Creepers in that old gear as well too, no mean.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Feet, and he knew how Harry is. And Harry was
the guide for Edmund Tillery.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Nice to hear from your ross for a good They've
got a bit of a mountaineering stuff there, like that, Marcus.
There was also an outdoor furniture scam here in christ
Chitch on Facebook marketplace from Warwick. There are scammers offering.
There are scammers offering right on lawnmowers all seem to
have joint marketplace twenty twenty six, asked for deposit and

(10:22):
give a false address bill. You wonder how easy those
people would be to catch, because I can't imagine Zuckerberg's
helping out. By the way, speaking of these billionaires, was
anyone else embarrassed that the christ Jutch mayor was asking
Elon Musk for help? I thought, creepers, where's your dignancy?
I think it was helpful communication with akaroa til major

(10:44):
was doing that, I thought, jeep isst creepers? Fill? Really?
Is that what the country has come to? Where the
begging bowl for sort of sketchy trillionaires not happy with
that at all. Eight hundred and eighty, tell he come on,
what have you got? Ninety ninety text scams, mountains and
tunnels and dogs if you want to go there. But
it's still very fresh after this death. But there's once

(11:04):
again the discussion happens about every ten or twenty years.
They talk about banning dangerous dogs and nothing ever happens.
Everyone lets off a bit of steam and then it
all goes quiet until the next time. Will this time
be any different? I doubt it. I don't think any
government before an election wants to start to impinge on
people's rights. It's probably something to do the first year

(11:25):
of a three year cycle. There'd be my pick on
that one. Back catch your people eight hundred and eighty
today twenty past eights, Catch you soon. Oh, by the way,
the mirror of Akio Fillmoja Major has front of the media.
They have opened the Akio The road to there is
back opened. So that's good news. Although I reckon Akio
is going to become a settlement that's going to have
its challenges of the roadblocks like that all the time.

(11:47):
They've got a rain, lakes and stuff to get through.
There can't quite work that one out because it's just
all about erosion A and forces. But do come through
if you want to talk. As I've said, and also
too on that, I haven't quite worked out why people
prefer marketplace to face marketplace to trade be apart for

(12:08):
the fact it's free. I've always thought that trade Be's
are pretty good kind of although I'm always a buyer,
I'm never a seller. But it's surprising that people have
adopted marketplace so quickly when it just seems to me
so sketchy and graphically it's not fun, is it to
look at stuff? It's really chaotic? Hey Ben, this is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Welcome you get to Marcus Year. I've noticed this too,
So I buy a lot of stuff off marketplace, and
I've just noticed in the last month there's all these
accounts that are selling stuff that are like just being
set up this year, and they're selling stuff will really
cheap way this is what you'd expect to pay for it.

(12:49):
And I tried to buy a smart TV at Samsung
and it should have been going for at least five
or six hundred bucks. It was down to two hundred bucks.
And same thing as for a deposit sending the account
number for each of the account number in your Internet
banking and the name doesn't matter the account number. And
that's when our new showed away. It's ficient.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
So they're still using New Zealand accounts, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but god knows whose accounts it was.
It's just their Facebook name didn't match the name on
the bank account, because nowadays you've got to type in
the name and it tells you if there's a match
or not on the Internet banking, and it said no match.
So that's when I knew what's going on here. And
when I questioned them about it, next minute the account

(13:34):
the item was taken off and the account's being closed,
and yeah, and then I've seen the same photo on
a different listing the following day.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I just wonder how easy it is for police to
track them down if you've got account numbers. It's the
but I'm kind of curious about or can you hide
behind your account number.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm not sure, macaus, but I'm just wondering if if
they're using people's account numbers, and these people don't even
know that their account numbers are being used, or they're
standing up into their banking accounts under false names. Or something.
Who knows, Marcus, but I would say it'd be pretty
hard for the cops to catch. And I noticed these
stemmers have stopped doing high value items, and I started

(14:14):
doing really low value items, and they're up to quantity
rather than a large amount.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
What's your rules for Marketplace? Do you pick up only?

Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:24):
I pick up only in generally Marcus.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Because if you buy something it's in a different island.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh yeah, no, I tend to do. You know, I
might buy you Living Cross, you might buy something in
Queen some of them hitting down that way or something.
But it's generally cash on pick up Marcus because it
just saves all the drama and you know, I get
to see what I'm buying because you might buy something
can not even work. So yeah, you just got to

(14:51):
be careful.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
You're not afraid of selling stuff with sketchy people coming
around to your.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
House obsort of stuff on Marketplace before, but generally do
it at the weekend, you know, when you're home and
your partner's home, and it's during the day, so I'd
never have anyone coming around, you know, after dark hours
or anything.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
The only thing I ever bought when I was a
pack up was this was on trade with The only
pack up was a old knock your phone from a
go on the Army base at Fanuapai, which I always
thought was quite in true. It was a good watch
too played steak got a high score. Nice to talk, Ben,
thanks so much. Twenty seven past eight. How are you?
What's happening? Geez? She's a scorchurre.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
Now of it.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
To go and get the old econ on wooh hot
as heck, oh wait a ton of eighty ten eightyan
nine two nine to detext. We've talked, what do we get?
While he was talking about Mount cock Oh, because you
got to climb a cup of mountains before we can
climb everest Marcus. I thought it was fantastic of meyor
phil Major to ask Elon Musk for communication help for

(15:53):
the town at Akaroa. He put the town's need ahead
of his own pride. I don't like Elon Musk's personality
lifestyle choices, but like his help. If my town was
in trouble, I think i'd like preferm a dignity than
his help. I thought you'd go. It was second hand,
shoped by furniture. It's cheap, it's not the same price
as brand new good text there. I don't know what
that means. Market change should change the rules to cash

(16:14):
on pick up turny designers players out there, David get
in touch interesting too, you know the person from the
new Stadium and Christ Judge talking about the food fighters
called them the foies. Don't you thought there was pretty
standard now anyway? I couldn't think of a better band
for Christ Jewdge seems to be a particular band the

(16:36):
South Islanders go uts nay for is the Foies? Oh yeah, Marcus.
Did you see the Aussies paying more tax on alcohol
than petroleum companies do? Hmm, it'd be the same here,
would it not? At your people marketplaces the topic the
topic of choice so far, there's other stuff though, there's

(16:57):
other stuff. And the tunnel through Mount Victoria, which is
not going to go because they're gonna have congestion charges.
I can guarantee that that's not going to happen. No
one's going to want to build a tunnel. You could
triple the budget for that. It's like the old days
with pick and shovel at your people if you want
to be a pine eight hundred and eighty today, bad

(17:17):
and Duneeda and I see there's houses red sticker there,
Portobellow Drive and muscle Burer Cliff incredibly stressfu wouldn't it
by the way, sint hyphen sinnate the I'll get a
name right too before too long? She is eventing, she's
competing tonight, but it's not on our watch. It's going

(17:41):
to be about two thirty in the morning. I woke
up early to say if you'd run a record, and
I coudn't see anything, but obviously that canceled it. Zoe
Sadowski sinnate. Fancy it snowing at the Winter Olympics. I
was surprised that it's snowing. Then I was surprised that
I'm not aware of them canceling stuff for snow before
of course it's going to snow. Craig, this is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
This is Greg, not Craig.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh sorry there, Craig, Greg, my apology.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
That's all right. Marketplace. Marketplace can be fantastic, marketplace can
be absolutely frustrating. Wow, from the point of the amount
of ripoffs or scams as we now call them, that
are out there, people advertising the same items like you

(18:29):
said about the beds in one photo. I've recently been
looking for a lawn mower and the same listing is
in hard Ere, It's in christ Church, it's in wangad Ay,
it's in Auckland. And no matter how hard I try,

(18:52):
they all want me to provide them with a deposit,
and I'm like, well, no, I'll just bring I'll just
bring cash with me when I pick it up. And
I know we need to have a deposit to hold
for you.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
You're not talking to people. This is just through text, right,
this is true message?

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Ye?

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Yeah, and it's not limit because I use Marketplace quite
a lot. Sometimes things are successful, but then there's some
things like I want to just explain with the lawnmark,
nothing ever comes to fruition, and you get the run arounds,
and in some cases the person who apparently is a

(19:35):
seller gets very annoyed with you because you and you know,
after a few experience, you get to learn what they
like and they almost get to a point where you're
the one doing the scamming, not them.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Okay, there's also some idiots, aren't there that just sort
of asks stupid questions the things. There's a bit of
that going on, is there.

Speaker 8 (20:03):
Well, there's always a lot of that stupid question, Like
I've sold on marketplace, and for example, I had a
clear out of some shoes that I had. I probably
had maybe twelve pairs of shoes up at one time,
and I would have had on most of the.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
Pairs of shoes that I listed. Are these available, which
is as a standard question, and you would reply that
yes they are because you have an option of a
pre pre answer.

Speaker 9 (20:40):
So it just worked.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
But yes, are you interested?

Speaker 8 (20:44):
And you never hear back from anybody.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Oh, I would.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
Have had some people. I would have had up to
thirty people asking that one thing, and it's like, by
the time, you know, just about pulling my hair out.
We did get there in the end with selling them all,
but can be very very very frustrating as well as
a buyer.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Does he get your lawn mower in the end?

Speaker 8 (21:10):
Greg, Not yet, I'm still trying.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Must be a good scam. It must work if they
keep doing it. There must be money in it. People
must be paying the deposits.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Well, yeah, I had another instance where I was after
a particular camera and they gave me an address to
go pick it up. Now, I don't know how they're
going to work the scam but I went to the
address to pick it up and knocked on the door
and a little dear old lady answer answer the door,

(21:41):
and I says, come to pick up the camera, and
she says, oh no, not another one.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
And she'd had people coming to her door for a computer,
for a laptop camera, And you didn't put any money
up front. But it was almost just like somebody taking
a piss getting you to go through the exercise of
traveling across one side of the city to the other
on the expectation of arriving and there being a camera there.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
But it must be a fetishist, so it must be
a neighbor, a fetishist or something looking through the curtain
what I called a curtain twitcher looking through or another one.
I got another one. It's probably quite a fun thing
to do, wouldn't it.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Or another one possibly if you have that weird.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's a weird kind of a kink though, isn't it
just to get randoms turning up at your neighbors.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
Well, there's all sorts of widows out there, isn't that.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, And they're all online. Greg on Mark, I thought
there's going to have some question about I thought you're
going to get the shoe. I thought you're gonna have
some shoe fetish comments.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
Well, funny you should say that, because I had had
somebody ask a question and say what was It was?
Could you could you take a photograph of your foot
in the shoe without any without any socks off, because
that's that's how I wear them? And I said no,

(23:08):
I'm not able to because you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
You wouldn't need a photo, You need an X ray
because you couldn't tell how well they're fitting. Would they?

Speaker 8 (23:16):
Oh? I don't know, but I said I wasn't able to.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
That's it. That's it, that's it. That's an ankle Geza,
that's an ankle guy, I reckon.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
Hang on, but it gets better. Question was, well do
you have any old smelly socks?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Wow? So yeah, it's still people you're training with, isn't it.
You know I wouldn't sell shoes on. I wouldn't. I
wouldn't want that. I wouldn't want to deal with the
shoe fetishists. That just freaked me out. Greg. Look, you've
been of for a good caller. You've been illuminating. Dame
Menzies has his snowboard slope Style final. He's the lead qualifier.
It starts to live in twenty tonight. Don't miss that,

(23:56):
and so he's on after that? Why bother with time
wasters and tire kickers go to Bannings m Bunnings, Bunnings
off for the lawnmower. I guess I thought, think she's
about shoes. We did Bunnings start doing shoes, but it'll
be that. It'll be lawnmowers at Bunnings. Yeah, how's all going? People?

(24:18):
What's happening?

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Wait, hundred? I should have asked the guy why he's
not gone electric? I'm fully electric these days, going more
and more that way. Love a battery. I don't know
why I changed the battery weed eater after a long time.
I had three of the old two smoked ones and
I went to battery and it's more powerful, which I

(24:40):
surprised it. I thought it was going to be less,
but cheaper's creepers just about took off. Twenty two to nine, Joe,
this is Marcus. Welcome and good evening, mate.

Speaker 9 (24:53):
I actually want to start by saying I spoke to
you ten fifteen years ago about USO is on talkback
one night.

Speaker 11 (25:00):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I don't think. I've only done it for ten years.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
Yeah, so yeah, it's worth in that time frame.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, okay, right at least she dreamt.

Speaker 9 (25:14):
Yeah, well maybe I did. I want to just listening
to Greek before, and I've had the exact same experience
with pool tables. So people will list the pool table
on Marketplace and you contact them, they're all interested, like

(25:37):
you know, you end up with quite a lengthy thread
of conversation and then all of a sudden, I'll just
want you to make a deposit. And it's like, well,
I'm available now, come and pick it up right now,
and I'll bring the money with me. But what they
want you to do is consistently make a deposit. And honestly,
with pool tables, I think I've had at least fifteen

(25:59):
of those, and to me, it just sounds like a scam, right,
they want me to make it posit. They're probably getting
fifty other people to make a deposit of some amount
and then taking the listing down, taking the money and
kind of running.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
So you're looking to purchase Joe, are you?

Speaker 9 (26:22):
Yeah? Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I thought I thought a pool clable would be a
very easy thing to buy. Because of certain things that
people will always be getting rid of if as they're downsizing.

Speaker 9 (26:32):
Yeah, and a lot of the what do you call it?
The descriptions around the selling are we're downsizing or whatever?
But yeah, yeah, same as great, Like just a lot
of put a deposit down will hold it for you.
It's like I've got a trailer, I'll come right now

(26:52):
and pick it up and pay you and that interest
they want you to put a deposit down?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Did you get one in the end?

Speaker 9 (27:00):
No, I'm still looking if anyone's out.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
There, how much would you pay for one?

Speaker 9 (27:06):
Well, it kind of depends. I mean, some of the
pool tables that are being listed and the situations that
I'm talking about, when you google them by like three
thousand dollars expensive. Yeah, so there's got to be something
wrong with that. But I mean most of the time,
you can pick up a pool table that's been around

(27:28):
in a family for a long time that's getting got
rid of for you know, less than five hundred bars.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Is it straightforward to refelt them?

Speaker 9 (27:40):
I don't think so. I think the last one we
had that we got quoted for might have been two hundred,
three hundred dollars to get it refeltered.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
But the other thing and then did you check that one?
I don't know what people happens to people? Then did
you get did you send it to the tip?

Speaker 9 (28:00):
Well potentially, I mean for me personally, i'd really like
a flat pool table, or they're going to be a
little bit more expensive. And you know the other the
things you got to consider there are you know, there's
a slate underneath the felt broken. The felt might be perfect,
but the slate might be broken underneath. There's all that

(28:21):
kind of stuff as well.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
How could you check how could you check for the slate?
Would you need to take the felt off?

Speaker 9 (28:28):
Well, yes, to do a proper assessment, I would think so.
But I mean just just running your hand over it,
putting a level on it, rolling a ball down there,
that's a great thing to do. Roll the ball down
the pool table, kind of line it up, see if
it's you know, curving to the left, or does a

(28:48):
bit of a jump in the middle of something like that.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
You know, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Oh, but enjoyed that. Let's talk more about that, recovering
pool tables and things. I'll be happy to about pool tables.
Hold your horses, people with your son fifteen to nine Eda.
It's Marcus welcome, good evening, Hi Marcus, so yeah, good
things Senna.

Speaker 12 (29:07):
Oh, I was just listening to the guy calling in
about wanting a pool table or a slate table, and
I've got a free one he can have if he likes.
It's a balliot table.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (29:19):
Wow, it's in Auckland.

Speaker 12 (29:21):
If he wants to come and have a look, he's
more than havey.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Do we know?

Speaker 2 (29:26):
If he was in Auckland, then a billion table still
got the six pockets? Has it?

Speaker 14 (29:33):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (29:33):
I believe it has.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Okay, we'll hold your horses and we'll see if I
can get his number. I'll give it to you.

Speaker 15 (29:38):
Anna.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
That seems like a great offer. Does that buy? Sell
or Swap says that Saturday morning, doesn't it? Craig, Good evening.
It's Marcus welcome, belive. Here's it going good, Craig, thank you.

Speaker 14 (29:49):
I've got a couple of quick ones. My parents said.
Someone recently coming and said I brought some from marketplace
for my appearents, but they won't sell anything. But they
found out in the next couple of days that the
same guy had been asking the same question of eight
of these neighbors. Wow, apparently they were around Hamilton Way.
There's people doing that, just casing to see if anyone
is home. And if anyone is home, they say, other

(30:11):
from Marketplace, which is I've always found that bad. I mean,
I've sold something trade me before, but you always get
all these questions, people asking descriptions of what's actually in
the description. You know, you put everything down, they get
people get asking the same question. It's like, well, you
feel like saying, read above, you'll see what I'm describing.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Well, the weird thing is, Craig. A few times I've
looked at Marketplace. You've got to ask if it's available
once it's sold, why they just pull the listing?

Speaker 14 (30:35):
Yeah, why aren't they I'm not just why they don't.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
But I don't.

Speaker 14 (30:41):
I even use fuck Facebook Marketplace, so I've looked at
it a few times. It looks as sketch as anything
to me.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
But that's it.

Speaker 14 (30:50):
But I know it's probably not quite related. But I
did get scammed by my girlfriend many years ago, not
through Marketplace. We've broken up and I was on one
of those dating websites and middle lady talked about six
months and then drove from Hamilton to Nape. You had
to meet up with her and she never turned up,
only to find out that it was my girlfriend playing

(31:12):
me for six months and just wanted me to go
for a long drive to nowhere.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Wow. So there's so she knew you and she was
pretending she didn't know you, and wow.

Speaker 14 (31:25):
Yeah, well we broke up I thought was friendly, and
then went on there to try and find somebody, and
she set up a fake profile, got hold of me,
used his sister's photo as the photo, which I'd never
met her sister. And then at the cut to half.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
The she didn't want you to move on to some yeah,
and half other times you rung yep.

Speaker 14 (31:44):
Yeah yeah, I half done as I rung, and she
was actually I was actually talking to a sister not here.
And then I was down at the restaurant in Nape.
You're waiting enough to about half in our foot. I've
known it's nothing, so I rang up, and then she
answered and says, got your piece of work stuff and
like that, like what, So yeah.

Speaker 16 (32:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (32:00):
She cheated on me, and then I've not tried to
move on and she screwed me over again. So oh well,
you're just got to be careful everywhere now days. That's
just you can't really take things say they are.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
So I've never heard of that that someone will there
pretend to cheapest creepers.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
Yeah I was, I thought afterwards. I was like a
little bit not at the time. And they've got well,
so she's got nothing better with her life to annoying
me for six months. But hey, you know, so you
can't really tell people. I mean, I've moved on a
long time ago, but obviously she for some reason didn't
want me to move on.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I don't know, I want to be a long drive back.

Speaker 14 (32:32):
Hey, I was two hours and got two.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
I mean psychologically, not physically. But that's good too, Craig,
thank you. Brilliant night away from nine Joe's christ Sonogo
with a pool table or the billiard table. That's not
a match. So there we go. Hello Ivan, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (32:51):
Oh good dame Marcus.

Speaker 18 (32:52):
How are you?

Speaker 19 (32:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Good Ivan, thank you.

Speaker 17 (32:54):
Just just my experience with marketplace. I've been selling stuff
one and I probably about five years on that, and
what usually happens mainly I've been mainly sewing. I'm not
really what usually happens is the advertiser stuff and somebody
who pushed the automatic automated message is it available?

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Now?

Speaker 17 (33:16):
A lot of people don't like that, but I give
the person the benefit of the doubt because they may
have somebody may have actually sold the item and not
and not taken it out, So you've got to give
them the benefit of the doubt. It may not be available,
so you know where I'm coming from, understand, So I

(33:37):
always say, yeah, it's available. So I give them about
maybe eight or ten hours when I when I you know,
I say yet, when they ask is it available, I say, yes,
it's available. I'll give them about eight hours. And then
I say if their names say George, I'll say George,
any further interest in this item? And you get nothing

(33:57):
back for another eight or ten hours.

Speaker 9 (33:58):
Now.

Speaker 17 (33:59):
If they do that, I don't muck around with them.
I don't delete them. I basically I block them, because
what happens is they come back two weeks later and
do the same thing again. And I've noticed that with people.
I'm sure there's people that play these little games and
sit at home and have no interest in buying or

(34:19):
selling or anything like that. They've got that much time
on their hands, they just ruin it. For everybody. And
I've noticed that.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Where's the joy in that? Is that a kink or
what is that?

Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (34:29):
They just get a laugh out of it. And yeah,
you know they get there. You know, it's a bit
of amusement for them. And I've got to agree with
the other guy there. I think he mentioned something about
I can't remember what it was now, but yeah, you know,
you try your best, and they are that's that's right.

(34:49):
They ask all sorts of crazy. You've explained everything in
detail of what you're selling, and yet they'll come back
and say, well, you know, has it got this? Has
it got that?

Speaker 4 (34:57):
What length is it?

Speaker 17 (34:59):
What diameters?

Speaker 9 (35:00):
And morning?

Speaker 17 (35:00):
You've already explained it. They're just wasting your time, that's
all they're doing. But if you think you're going to
make money out of marketplace, it's only really a bit
of fun, that's all it is. You know, if you're
selling stuff there, if you think you're going to make
a living out of it, forget it. It just doesn't
work that way.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Oh, this depends what you're selling. But I appreciate it. Ivan,
Thank you, Scott, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (35:19):
Yeah, hey Marcus, calling about someone trying to scam me.
On marketplace.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Also, yes, on.

Speaker 21 (35:25):
An item that I never would have, Like, I expect
people to be scamming, you know, if you're selling a
fancy computer or a good iPhone or something like that.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
But this was f FOS paper.

Speaker 20 (35:36):
What happened was I for work. I realized I was
running low and I need to find some FOS paper.
And I said, all right, I'll look on marketplace see
if there's any boult plet's going cheap. And I found
someone selling basically a large amount of an amount that
would last me two or three years, but it was
at a very good price. I said, well, I'll just
buy it and then i'll be sorted, you know. And

(35:56):
the guy said, yep, no worries. And he gave me
a New Zealand phone number, so I knew he was
a local guy. And I was texting him and he said, yeah,
here's my address at so and so Marcus Road, and
the cargo or whatever it was.

Speaker 21 (36:12):
Anyway said okay, and he said, I'm going to be
at work, my mom's going to be home. Can you
just do a transfer to my bank account and send
me a screenshot and then she'll let you in.

Speaker 20 (36:22):
And I said okay, but I want to just check
that the that the you.

Speaker 21 (36:25):
Know, the item is good quality and it's not faulty,
you know, before I hand over the money. He said, okay,
no worries. He said, yep, just call me when you're outside.
And I text them and I said, I'm outside and
there was actually it was a house that had well,
you know, it was a block of units. I think
there was four of them. And I said, which one
is it? And he says, no worries, send me the
screenshot and I'll get my mum to open the door
for you. And I said, and I said which unit?

(36:48):
And then he says it's the middle one. And I said, oh,
there's four, so there's not a middle one. And I said,
is there a car outside? And he says, yeah, there's
usually a car outside. Sometimes it's a blue car, sometimes it's.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
A great car.

Speaker 20 (36:59):
And I thought, okay, so now you're just making up
car colors. And I thought, I'll just go knock on
the door.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Hang on, we'll go to the conclude, should after the new
Scott's cumb Builder or I'm out of time, but I'll
catch you back. So back to you, Scott. What we
were buying.

Speaker 20 (37:13):
I was buying fus paper.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
That's right, Is that like the rolls of paper? A yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah right, And he had a big supply of it.
There's four units and you went to one, he said,
the one with a car in the front. P yep.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (37:26):
Well basically he said the middle one and I said, well,
there's four, there's not really a middle one. And I said,
is that the one was the caring from it? And
he goes, yeah, there's a car. And I said what
color is the car? And he said, oh, sometimes it's
blue car, sometimes it's a gray car. Sometimes it's a
red car. He's obviously just guessing, But I mean the
sky was a New Zealand because he had a New
Zealand number. And when I had ring him up, you

(37:47):
know I could hear that. You know, I wasn't getting
the crackle of talking to someone overseas. And then the end,
I just went and knocked on the door and he
said to one of the middle units, was we don't
know anything about it's train next thoughts? And I ended
up trying all four units and no one knew anything
about it. So I think the guy had just been
hoping I would transfer the money and then he would disappear.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Wow, I thought, you're going to drive there and transfer
the money outside the house.

Speaker 20 (38:09):
Well, he was trying to get me to transfer it
before I even drove over there, and I said, I said,
because I was because I'm wary of scams. I said, no,
I don't want to do it till I get there.
And also I hadn't even think been thinking so much
that it was a scam at first, because it's such
a banal item to.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Be scam exactly.

Speaker 20 (38:28):
But but I wanted to check if this hasn't been
setting in a garage for months and it's gone moldy
or of course.

Speaker 10 (38:35):
You know.

Speaker 20 (38:35):
I was like, there's a reason, you know, why is
it so cheap? And he was just saying, oh, we
bought too much. We don't need it.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
I need the space.

Speaker 20 (38:41):
But I thought, well, I'm going to have a look,
you know, before I transfer the money.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
How much do you want for them?

Speaker 20 (38:48):
I think it was three hundred dollars, but it was
if I bought it normally at retail price, that would
have been one thousand dollars worth or something. So there
was a good discount. So that's why it's interested. But
obviously it.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Didn't exist great story, Scott, thanks for holding on with that.
To Dennis Marcus, welcome, I.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Got some story. So we were looking for a couple
of LG washering dryers for the batch and saw them
on the marketplace and there was a beautiful looking things
roundred bucks for the two right, and they absolutely needed
a deposit.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
They said, a lot.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
We've had so much interest, we need to deposit a
hundred bucks. And so started to think this, it's a
good od. Why can't I just give you one hundred dollars,
you know, And turned out it was a total scam.
So how we found out was if you take if
you take the photo of whatever they're showing, and you
saved that photo and put it into face into Google,

(39:45):
you know pictures, they all bring up where they got
that photo from, because most of the photos they just
pull off the web, the web somewhere, and we found
the exact same photo with the reflection of the exact
same bloke and it was overseas. So it's a real
barbie where and if it's too if it's if it's
too good to be true, it usually is right, but

(40:06):
they just love to get the deposit. They won't budge
until you put that in there, and you've seen them
a screen shot showing it's been in And we went
back to that sight and I saw that the machines
had been for sale for nine weeks. So that was
a giveaway as well. Right, if they're so cheap, why.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
You've got to hang around for nine weeks here?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Yeah? Yeah, So you've got to be very savvy. You know,
there's no unlike trade me, there's no address verified stuff
going on, so they can tell you it's in Timbuktu,
and you know you've got to take their.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
Word for it.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
So had you given them your deposit?

Speaker 4 (40:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
None, No, understand.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
We just smelled a rat straight away, and yeah, we
looked up. We put the photo into Google picture thing
and there it was an overseas photo of the same
two machines exactly. Was even a sort of a shot
because they got a crome edge around and there was
a reflection, so that was a real dead giveaway. It

(41:04):
was quite a unique picture.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Still still shock. Did it put you off with your
still shop on it?

Speaker 8 (41:10):
No?

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Well, I think you just got to be real. You
just got to be aware that there's plenty of scams
on there. You know, there's plenty of people that just
wanted to posit once you put it in there, and
they only want a hundred bucks. So people know you're
not going to really get all been out of shape
for one hundred bucks, and the cops won't go looking
for it enough for you. So it's a case of
just going, well, you just got to be savy with it.

(41:31):
Small amounts be taking, but they probably get lots of them.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Pretty sketchy way to make a living into Dennis, but nice.
Thanks to hear, Thanks for hearing from your twelve past nine,
good evening. Paul AT's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (41:42):
You get even you Marcus. You know, I got sacked
and I was feeling a bit under the weather or whatever,
and I needed a new mobile phone because the other
one kept cutting out, you know. And anyway, I jumped
onto this marketplace that I hadn't really heard much of,
and they wanted I think they wanted that five hundred

(42:07):
bucks for it. From memory, there's only a couple of
weeks ago. And so anyway, I paid them half and said, well,
I'll pay the other half when I pick it up,
and they said to me, well you left after the
first half got paid. In the screenshot of the transfer

(42:31):
got seen through. Well, you have to pay the other
half straight away because there's too many people wanting it
and I need to know that it's definitely sold. I said, well,
I wouldn't have put two hundred and fifty in if
I wasn't going to come and pick it up in
an hour. And he said, oh, no, no, you've got
to pay it now. I said, well, if you can't
wait an hour for a couple of two hundred and

(42:54):
fifty bucks, something doesn't smell right to me. But anyway,
I got sucked in and I paid the extra turn
in fifty bucks assimming. That's the number was and it
depends that there was no such address or local phone
number or whatever. And to my said, I just told

(43:17):
the wife about it, and so she told me I
was an idiot. This wasn't far from the truth. And
and anyway, much to my surprise, on the Tuesday, the
Westpac phoned me up and said, did you make two
transfers to two account numbers that LA And I said

(43:39):
yes I did, and they said, well, you got scammed
on marketplace. Our forward people picked it up and.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
It went.

Speaker 11 (43:48):
It ended up in the names It account and we're
just waiting on them to transfer the money back and
we'll give the money back to you. So I don't
think you can rely on that.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Well, that's something I wonder. What's the unusual thing that
they're using to pick up the all being done?

Speaker 11 (44:08):
These people must be doing it to a lot of people,
on a lot of different products all the time. I
wouldn't go around relying on that kind of service. I'd
be a lot more careful than relying on the bank
to pick up on it. But yeah, they did phone
me on the Tuesday, and and sure enough on the

(44:31):
Friday the money came back to my account and I
think I was one of the lucky ones.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
But then did you stay off the marketplace?

Speaker 11 (44:40):
Well, it was the first timebody ever bought anything on the.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Market But you hadn't actually bought anything, did you?

Speaker 11 (44:46):
No, I hadn't bought a thing. No, there was nothing
to buy.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
How did you go to the shop. Did you go
to the shop to buy your phone?

Speaker 10 (44:54):
Then?

Speaker 11 (44:55):
No, I've got a bloke that that buys a lot
of stuff off marketplace, and I got him to do.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
It for.

Speaker 11 (45:03):
He came. He came up with a result which result
in a phone and the desired money then being handed over.
But no, it's not for the same heart as I'll
tell you that you're going to have your wits about you.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
I'd say, nice to talk, Paul, and yes, as far
as Craig goes Craig, what I meant is would be
a long trip back. Is you're driven all the way
from Hamilton to Napier with the prospect of romance after
talking to ex girlfriend sixter sister for six months, and
then got across there and then realized that's what I meant.
It would have been long. Yeah, a long drive back

(45:40):
knowing that your exciting potential new girlfriend was your ex
girlfriend and his sister pretending to be someone new. That's
the angle I was making. So there's that anyway, and
nineteen nine to text here until twelve, looking forward to
your calls. No line's free. I'll let you know when
they're available. Mark, This is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Hello, Hi Mark, Yeah, Okody, Nate, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 10 (46:12):
Love listening to this conversation, it reminds me, well, we
had a bit of a situation last year. I thought
I'd just call up and share it with you. So
my wife and I we took the kids to the
States last year for a bit of a trip. We've
done the same a similar trip year before, and we
thought we'd just go somewhere different this time. We did,
you know, la, We went to Yosemite, and we felt

(46:35):
we're throwing four or five days down in San Diego,
and we were booking everything about I guess like ten
months out and you know, each night, glass of wine
and we'llatrol Airbnb and hotels, and what we were finding
with San Diego was actually quite an expensive place compared
to the rest of it everywhere. And we came across

(46:57):
this deal in one hotel and we're like, I mean, look,
it wasn't it too good to be true? It was,
but it was one hundred and two hundred dollars cheaper,
so we thought, this is excellent.

Speaker 9 (47:10):
Let's go for it.

Speaker 10 (47:11):
So I did a bit of research, you know, look
on Google street View. It was being rented through booking
dot com, and booking dot Com were like a pass
through agent, so they were advertising it. So once you
clicked on it, you went through to this organization's website,
stopped on street view. I could see their signs, their
phone numbers. I phoned them up, went to the San

(47:33):
Francisco office. They transferred me to the San Diego office.
I did a bit of Google Earth research. I worked
out the hotel. I called the hotel directly. It was
like in a service department type hotel. They confirmed that
this particular company had places. They didn't know whether they
were current or not, but had had places there. So

(47:56):
we paid the money. It was a painful eight nine
months out when we went. And then two days before
we were due to Leeds Brisbane to head over there,
I get these emails to say, hey, we've had to
cancel your booking, no cost to you, and I'm like
what And these were all coming from booking dot com.

(48:16):
I jumped on to Reddit and it was blowing up
that day and in the hand it turned out thousands
of people that had been scammed and ours was five
grand down the whole Lucky.

Speaker 9 (48:27):
I had a credit card.

Speaker 10 (48:28):
And that ideas, so I was ensured. But certainly wasn't
I know that even despite all the research we got.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Caught and how many people. I mean, it sounds like
I was a scam that would have been quite lucrative.

Speaker 10 (48:42):
I would say ours was four nights for five thousand,
eight hundred. Well, I live in Brisbane now, so that's
Australian dollars, so you know, we're looking close to seven
grand New Zealand.

Speaker 17 (48:55):
Yeah and a few.

Speaker 10 (48:56):
Times that by look, I'm estimating. But one of the
Reddit posts I read afterwards they said, yeah, we're we're
now from Conversations Police that several thousand people have been
caught in this particular scam.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
So you'd have a whole So you put together a
whole setup and staff and different phone lines and all
sorts of things, wouldn't you It would be worth doing that.

Speaker 9 (49:19):
It was.

Speaker 10 (49:19):
It was sophisticated. How do you get those images of
your shop front and adverts on Google Street? But that's
you know that, how did that happen? It blows me away.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
You know.

Speaker 10 (49:34):
It obviously was a legitimate business at some point, but
it had eventually gone out of business and these people
had I guess, leveraged their branding and or stolen their branding,
et cetera, change phone numbers, but incredibly sophisticated.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
You know.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
So the bank you got your money back, did you?

Speaker 4 (49:58):
We did?

Speaker 10 (49:59):
Took about eight weeks, I guess. Then I went and
we got it all less like Innix. This administration tree
out it was one hundred and tway rounds.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Yeah, okay, good good story. Good morning Mark, thank you Christian.
This is Marcus.

Speaker 22 (50:15):
Welcome, Hi mine, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Thanks Christa.

Speaker 22 (50:20):
So we when we moved, when we downsize from a
bigger house to a smaller house, we had a lot
of stuff to sell, and obviously trade me takes time.
You've got to auction sometimes you you you put a
number in and you don't. You don't get any people
bargaining or offering just to get rid of some of
the tube. So we started using marketplace and no jokes

(50:43):
we had. We're still telling and we are like two
years now and there's still things on marketplace. So we
are constantly chacking prices of other things before we tell
stuff like that. Some of the basics that people tend
to miss out is that they still think that the
whole world is a nice place and everybody is you know,
everybody's nice and there's no one out there to screw you.

(51:05):
But it's not like that. There are number of people
who will take pictures of things that have recently been
sold put it back in there at like, you know,
the five hundred dollars cheaper for e bikes and things
like that, and somebody who's just missed out on something
would assume that this product was purchased, but somebody didn't
like it, and they want to sell.

Speaker 20 (51:25):
It for cheaper.

Speaker 22 (51:26):
Understand, And what they do they're very clever, is they
have a lot of responses, right didn't They market it
as sold, which means that listing disappears. But they have
the chats of all these people who are interested in
e bikes. Either they'll try to sell them different e
bikes or different products or.

Speaker 20 (51:44):
Things that are stolen.

Speaker 22 (51:46):
And you know, they've got like a customer base of ten, fifteen,
twenty people, and some of them don't realize what is
happening and they buy stolen products. So it's like a
way of using an interested bunch of parties to sell
some really odd stuff.

Speaker 14 (52:05):
Some of the bass.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
You've got that list of all the people that want
that stuff, You've got that data.

Speaker 22 (52:10):
Eight yeah, yeah, twenty people would have all chatted, Hi,
is this available? Is this available? And that's it because
a couple of times I got sucked into it. And
then suddenly the guy is sending me pictures of other
things he has, and he's so sadly the charger got
crushed or got I know when we moved house the
charger disappeared. It's like a It's like a way for

(52:32):
them to basically be not No one could check your
profile anymore, and it's all you know, everybody's so things
to look out for. If it's like a twenty twenty
six Facebook person, that's highly likely he's doing this as
a he or she is doing this as a scam.

Speaker 20 (52:48):
If it's too good to be true, If he bikes
outside a two thousand dollars and someone's selling it for
eight hundred, trust me it's a scam. And never pay
anything upfront on Marketplace. Never ever pay dollars upfront, like
see the product, like it.

Speaker 22 (53:04):
It can do bank transfer or cash. Do not pay
for something that's far away. They'll post it to all bullshit.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Okay, you wonder how it's gone along. It's gonna last
until Marketplace becomes no longer effective because there's too many
scammers there. Yeah, I mean as I say, although to
be fair, I've never seen anything there I've wanted to buy.
Can't work out why that is. Markets Marcus Good evening
the markets, How are you good? Thank you?

Speaker 17 (53:30):
Mark Good Good Good you.

Speaker 23 (53:32):
So I was one of the fools that got scammed
by these scumbags for some firewod last winter. So I
paid some money up front and the PI would never
arrive but on Marketplace on Marketplace s. But the thing
is I I've got a friend who's pretty clever with
the dark side of the web, and he was doing this.
The guy was doing the same thing on WhatsApp. So

(53:53):
we managed to find out his phone number and so
we tracked him down and then I reversed it and
put on Marketplace. I put a picture that I found
to go with his phone number, and turned out we've
got a name and he works for the Devonport in
the Navy. Apparently gave it all to the police, but
they can do anything about it because it wasn't enough.

(54:13):
But when I put it back on Marketplace with his
with his face, I've got about three or four people
come back to a year. He scammed us as well,
But I gave that to the police. Another as far
as I know, nothing's been done.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
But yeah, do you know why the police couldn't do
anything that sounds like a crime to me?

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (54:28):
Apparently because it was under under five hundred dollars or something.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Well, the two grand, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (54:34):
That's what I thought?

Speaker 23 (54:35):
Yeah, I know, but no, they just too too busy
heading to the donut shops.

Speaker 13 (54:39):
I think.

Speaker 9 (54:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
You're talking about the police up the naval people where
there was I wanted to pick the forces is where
it was coming from.

Speaker 23 (54:48):
Yeah, it turns out he worked. I put his face
on back onto a marketplace and someone said, oh, I
know that guy. I was in the army with him,
and he said, I said, you have a name, and
he gave me the name. So I ended up with
the name, and then I tracked him down with some
other Facebook pages and then found out he was He
was in the in the navy in Devonport.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
So yeah, did you go pay him a visit?

Speaker 4 (55:11):
No?

Speaker 23 (55:12):
I don't because I live down south, But yeah, yes,
but you I wouldn't mind.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Do you want me to see my producer around.

Speaker 23 (55:19):
In no worries. I'll give you the details.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
People do that, but thanks Mark. Yeah, that's frustrating Devenport.
No right, you couldn't know where to run in Devonport too,
because you try and drive out, you're stuck there for
about four days on that road. Poor place to run
a scam. Was it Lake Road Dan?

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:36):
No, if that's terrible, But we've got them cornered. We're
coming for you, mate, We're coming for you. On would chuck,
We're going to get you. I'm not happy about that
at all. Fancy being in the navy cheapest creepers. I
didn't name him. Oh he didn't tell me the name.
I don't think we would because you never quite know.

(55:57):
I don't want to destroy someone's reputation. But it's a
pretty nasty ski. Because the firewood industry does work on
kind of a bit of a text basis quite interesting.
The firewood industry hard way to make a living. Actually,
you see you check it. Check around a lot of wood.
You gotta cut it down and cut it down twice.
Not fully sure if it's an effective way to do it.
Here'll twelve If you want to be a part of it.

(56:18):
Oh wait, hold your horses. I'll be with you soon.
For the texts, Zoe Sadowski is sen it just after
twelve one two o'clock. The police regularly say beware of marketplace.
It's called catfishing. Bravo TV as a whole series of
real life experience of people have been catfishing. I think
it's called catfishing. I think it's called a face a

(56:39):
marketplace scam. I think catfishing is when you it's like
in the last hour, Chris, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 24 (56:51):
There you go, market's there, you're going good, Thanks, Chris.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
Good buddy.

Speaker 24 (56:54):
Hey, it's today overseas people that are getting ripped off
on this marketplace. I've got done for four and a
half thousand dollars I've lost so actually got three that's
three and fifty dollars back from the court of about
two months. Had a guy on your plymouth to do
me over. He said he's actually bought some track of parts.
And he said to me at the time, he said,
I'm loaded onto you, onto the truck as I'm actually
speaking to you.

Speaker 20 (57:15):
But I said, I was that right?

Speaker 24 (57:16):
He said, well, I was trying to put ten gre
in on my back acount and I said no, no, no,
I said, I'm a thousand sad, I'm getting four and
a half grand. So I came folle out grand anyway. But he
said that the same track that five times a million
dollars was the fraud he got away with. Uh, he
didn't get away with it, but he's having to pay
people back. He he actually look his name up, you'll see it.
So it's quite public. I could tell you his name
if you want it.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
It's probably not it's probably not important for the story.

Speaker 24 (57:39):
But I realized his names Chris Carter, and he's what
you'd be well know. And then you right and new Plumouth.
But as I said, he sold the same track that
he saw one hundred thousand dollars machines two different people,
are three different occasions and things like that. And I said,
so it's not only the local guys. I cook it
basically COCONDI. So far he's got to pay it back.
I'll probably need to see it, but just basically, yeah,

(58:03):
it just shows you how you can't get caught out.
And then of course I've got called again and at
the Christmas time on some of my little tract of parts,
and it was another local guy that went from one
bank account into another bank account. But it's in the
hands of the police. Now, hey, no big deal. I
was going to ride it off, but it just showed you, Yes,
you're gonna be very careful, put no money across the marketplace.
Left you got to go and pick up the stuff
and pay for as you.

Speaker 6 (58:22):
Pick it up.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
How did the guy think he'd get away from it
away with it?

Speaker 24 (58:27):
Well, the guy that the first one to me, the
four and a half thousand dollars. Look, I don't know.

Speaker 20 (58:32):
He went to court.

Speaker 24 (58:34):
He just ripped people off. Because he actually google his name,
you'll see even got in trouble in England. He's a
Pommy boy. Actually, yeah, I won't say more than met.
But as I say, then he came here, he had
a tractor business here and he just just screwed people.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
And certainly I.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Could see the art, I could see the article now
Tadanaky Farm equipment dealer Christopher Carter ripped off twenty five
customers three and sixty k in total.

Speaker 24 (58:58):
Now there's a lot more than that.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Yeah, what was he hooked on the pokes or something?
Was he was he gambling it all away? What was
he doing with that?

Speaker 24 (59:06):
Get a drug problem? Had a marriage problem. But that's
his third time, it was his third time that he'd
actually done it. So he's actually heard a lot of
people on the way through, a lot of people out
there couldn't actually afford to just give them the money,
you know, And yeah, he just took it off them
and didn't have a conscious whatsoever sort of thing. But
as I say, even got big French aisors down here
that we're too scared to come forward actually because they

(59:27):
didn't want to be embarrassed by the amount of money
that they'd given them. I know one couple of companies
the end of it gave him two to three hundred thousand.
They didn't even bother to claim it or anything back,
you know, they just need to go and rode it off.
So it just shows you local people are doing as
well as overseas people.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
All the discussion tonight, it's been about local people. I
think that's what people are alluding to a part for
that overseer. So you're you're in that, you're in that region.
He was local to you.

Speaker 24 (59:53):
No, I wasn't actually Napier. I'm actually in Hawk's Bay.
He was a new plumber. And yeah, I actually said there,
I'm loading on the truck. Now i'll meet your such
a shouts and address. I wanted to go to a
holiday place I had, so I went up there with
one hundred K. I went to the for the morning.
He said, it's way. When I rang back, he said
oh no, he said, the drivers let me down. And
then he said, Nick was I said, it never came now,

(01:00:14):
I'm sorry to be here. You know, a couple of
days lading a couple of days and then something happened
to it. He had a really good talk and he's
really really good and it was quite understanding. I thought
he's a junior, real junior, and sort of gone, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Probably be quite a good it's probably be quite a
good salesman.

Speaker 24 (01:00:27):
Oh, he's a traffic sales mate. He's in the wrong job.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
He probably should be selling practice for someone that's legit.

Speaker 24 (01:00:35):
Yeah, well, I think even had a when he called
him junction on and he couldn't work for anybody at
that time while he was going up. But he obviously
heard a lot of people because there was a lot
of people to contact me at that stage when it
was going through. It was across the internet, big time
sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
But how long How long ago is this, Chris?

Speaker 24 (01:00:53):
There would have been what I appost three years ago?

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Now, okay, good stuff like Nicole, thank you, thank to
the details twenty five to ten. So a lot of
texts about the guy in the navy, and I been says,
and I think this is probably right. It's likely the
Navy guy had his identity stolen didn't even know. I
think that's probably the way. That'd be my understanding too.
So I don't really want to form a hit squad

(01:01:16):
and Tucker Perna and sweep the peninsula. We're talking Facebook marketplace.
For those that don't know, it's many of the men
that they're getting scammed. You know that it's all men. Marcus,
can't you report the navy scam of the Navy because
he brings their honor and too disrepute. The police might
not care, but the Navy would probably be interested if
he's still in the navy. That is, Kate, I don't

(01:01:39):
think he's in the Navy. I think he's stolen the
profile of someone in the Navy. Probably it's a good
person to steal because people trust someone from the Navy. Hit'll
twelve minames, Marcus welcome, eight hundred and eighty t It's
all about scams, it's about marketplace, it's all about it's
all about that. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Peter's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
Here, ain't Marcus? I would have been to de Astraighten
this out. I think that guy is something and it's
something about New Plymouth. I think we're not all crooks
and New plymouthee.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Well that's where this guy was. They was right.

Speaker 7 (01:02:15):
Now there are there are a few good people sitting
this down. Now, what I'm doing is over you're taking
all my stuff off trade me, because I think putting
on marketplace. But after what I've hearing, you have to
be very weary because I've got a bit sick of
trade me because what they're doing is they have this
ping fee. Now you see two point nine percent, and

(01:02:36):
what are there And what they're doing is they charge
that onto the onto the cellar. Because bossold stuff on
trade me for a long time now and before you
always gave your bank details. I always had a good
I got a good feedback with them, and so they said,
Oh they go on about security for the sellers, for

(01:02:59):
the buyers and all this. Now it's just another method
of trade me getting two point another add on. You
pay seven point nine percent for each sale you sell
on Training for the Eye. I don't mind that you're
using their site and all that. I don't mind that
at all you're using their website and all that in
a store. There your photo. I don't mind that all

(01:03:19):
your user pays. When they started to slap this two
point two point one nine percent from every item your
sell the items, not seven point nine percent. Yeah, on
the two point one nine percent.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
It makes everything easy. I didn't I didn't work out
how the paying work. But it makes it easy with ping,
doesn't it Ping? You just click and you paid. It's
over not typing and all those endless numbers. I love
the pain.

Speaker 9 (01:03:43):
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:03:44):
It's just another way trade me getting money. Easy picking.
It's like just picking the grapes off the grapevine without
even ark to tick the boxes. I say, don't want
to pay the ping fee, but they still take it
off out of your account, and I reckon that's wrong.
If the buyers want to use ping fee, they pay
if you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Go on hang on.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
So you can't sell on tray, but you can't still
market place. You're going to go back to garage sales.

Speaker 16 (01:04:08):
Oh, no, what to do?

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
But I've taken everything down from trade me, I said, no,
I've been talking to them. But you know, since it
was New Zealand founded by Sam Morgan, you know they
had a little they had you know, they treat it
last like New zeal And. It's now saying by our
foreign companies, they don't care. They can think we can.
He picked some grapes from today and that's what they're
doing with this two point nine per.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Get the point. What's what stuff? Are your money selling?

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
Peete and all sorts, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:04:36):
But the end of the day is that I just
don't like them, just basically just taking fees off someone
and you actually said you don't want to pay the fee.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Thanks. Pete never telled us. I think it's guest bottles.
I think he sells and buys and sells guest bottles.
Dane Menzies has a snowboard slope style Final eleven twenty Tonight,
here's the top qualifier.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Mind.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
You can go to heartbeat. You hit the wrong hit
the wrong bit of ice since she's all over over.
Always seems about, doesn't it. You go for something difficult,
it goes bad. You have something too easy. I don't
enough points. Yep. So we're on about tonight. Eighteen to nine,
eighteen to ten, eighteen to eleven. Pick one of those.
That's the right time. Pick the middle one call if

(01:05:22):
you want to. It's sixteen to ten. We talk about
marketplace and marketplace scams. That's what we're on about. So
if you had something to add, that's a good place
to add it. When I left New Zealand for Bali,
I sold everything I owed via trade me, over eight
hundred items. In the end, THEO issues here in Bali.
There are scams everye on Facebook and evey, the equivalent
trade me sites in Indonesia. Last scam I was called

(01:05:44):
and I bought a printer from what looked like a
legit seller and all I was curiod was an envelope
with a message saying your item was on the way.
That was three months ago. Over here, you can order
most items cash on delivery. I prefer that method now,
he he your Facebook scams, people Facebook, marketplace. I've got

(01:06:06):
any good stories from marketplace? We probably should balance it
a bit. Anything good happenmyb be something you can talk about. Yeah,
it's all about the scams where you're trying to get through.
What about refelting a billiard table? He could you do
it yourself? Probably not? Where would you get the felt?
You never see them? Advertising? Billiard table of refelters must

(01:06:28):
be out there. I suppose old people I mean, I'm
not old people, but old industries people doing it.

Speaker 9 (01:06:32):
For a while.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
It's been a big avalanche in the Alps, the Italian Alps.
Just keep you up to date. People. But if you've
been trying to get through, these lines now available for you.
For you, but get in touch. There's something else you
want to mention, but mainly it's about Facebook marketplace. Yep,

(01:06:53):
so do do get in touch if you want to.
Oh eight hundred eight eighty nine nine texts hitdle twelve.

Speaker 19 (01:07:02):
Yi.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
The traktor scam seems to be a biggie, doesn't it.
Goodness me one hundred thousands of dollars. By the way,
Dane Menzies, that's the snowboard slope style final yep. You
never have snowboard racing, do they. It's always doing tricks
and stuff. Have I not racing down hill? Have I
missed out something there? What have I missed out? Hello Pete,

(01:07:26):
this is Marcus good evening.

Speaker 25 (01:07:28):
Yeah, you're just asking about refelting a billiard table. Yeah yeah,
so I inherited or ended up with just a standard
pool table, but the felt, the felt was past its
use by date. So I had a look on YouTube.
Saw a few clips on there. Legend went did a

(01:07:53):
bit of a search and ordered some felt, and yeah,
you can pop some little plugs out and take all
the sides off and took all the felt off, put
the felt on.

Speaker 26 (01:08:10):
Now.

Speaker 25 (01:08:10):
The only thing is you've got to you've got to
make sure you've got the grain going the right way. Yeah,
that's something that you just spit like rubbing your hand
across on carpet. You can see which way the way
it's falling. Yeah, I can't. I can't remember which way
it's supposed to go. But I did it the right
way anyway, and just with a good strong spring loading

(01:08:31):
staple gun, stapled the felt down and then the rubbers
sort of it's around the side. Yeah, I got it
all done.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
It's it's so it's not glued to the slate. It's
just stapled and pulled.

Speaker 25 (01:08:46):
Well, that's that's what The stuff that they took off
was stapled on and that's all that's And I replaced
it and people are pretty impressed when they see it,
and yeah, it looks the part, and didn't I don't
remember it costing me a lot. The only thing I
haven't I haven't got round to doing is as marking

(01:09:07):
it up with.

Speaker 14 (01:09:07):
Like a D.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
So there's no there's no creases on it.

Speaker 25 (01:09:12):
No, no, yeah, just make sure you've got the grain
going the right way, and.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
You will you say, the grain going the right way?
Is that the long way or the or the or
side to side? Is it's one of those ones, is it?

Speaker 25 (01:09:24):
Yeah, it's got a from memory, it's got a as
you rub run your hand across it. I think it's
got to fall away from where you would break from.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Yeah, from member, That makes that makes sense. Okay, so
it's against the break.

Speaker 25 (01:09:40):
Yes, yeah, so yeah, so but yeah, that's I just
can't remember which way it's supposed to go, but you've
got to get that right. And yeah, I just tensioned
it up and put some staples in and did it
in an uniform way and then you know, as I say,
did all did all the sides, and then put it
all back together and thang, it's done.

Speaker 13 (01:10:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
A couple of hours, Oh no, no.

Speaker 25 (01:10:07):
I'd say a couple of afternoons from start to finish.

Speaker 14 (01:10:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Yeah, so I'm watching on YouTube. It would be a great
and you know how you're you're you're using the staple
gun to put the outside and then do you put
the boards over there? Is that the way it goes?

Speaker 14 (01:10:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:10:25):
Yeah, yeah, and then it sort of all covers itself
and yeah, it's it's it's it's not not too difficult,
as I said, a couple of couple of couple of
watches on YouTube and then into the garage and where
you go. And I think, as long as you want
to have a good, you know, good staple gun and

(01:10:46):
it's probably not the most professional way that I did it,
but it works and it's ten years or something.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Brilliant, really interesting Pete, thanks so much. Legend seven to ten.
Hello Louise, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:11:03):
Ah, hi Marcus, how you night?

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Good thanks Louise.

Speaker 26 (01:11:06):
Oh good marketplace. Well I heard all this negative stuff
about it, but I've had nothing but bargains, good deals,
lovely people great and yeah, yeah it's been great. I've
got a table on chairs outside delivered from Palms to

(01:11:28):
the North to a Fox and Beats for twenty dollars.
I mean, you know, it's just such lovely people. And
I said all cash on delivery because I wasn't going
to pay them and then not have them turn up
or whatever. But it pays to read the feedback and
if they haven't got any. But yeah, but I had

(01:11:51):
nothing but good outcomes so far.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Touch wood, table and chairs. What other stuff?

Speaker 26 (01:12:00):
I bought a couple of those Balainese mirrors the car
one really good price.

Speaker 13 (01:12:09):
What else have I bought?

Speaker 26 (01:12:10):
I bought a couple of lights for the first ones
I got, made a really good deal too. Oh, plants, Oh,
all sorts of stuff, and it's always been no hassle.
You know, maybe it's man l two. I don't know.
Some amazing people out there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Are you a seller? Are you a seller as well?

Speaker 26 (01:12:33):
Yes? I have sold a couple of things on me yep,
that went well too, and there's no fees on it,
so it Trade.

Speaker 23 (01:12:41):
Me has been.

Speaker 26 (01:12:44):
Annoying the haircut of me lately, that doing all these
upgrades in it and it's just not working very well.
So I've been going water marketplace occasionally. Still trade me,
but yeah, no, nothing wrong with.

Speaker 11 (01:12:59):
It, cautious.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Is it a hobby for you?

Speaker 26 (01:13:03):
No, I've just been doing things around the house, parting
up to the outside and stuff. Oh yeah, and and
I love palmes and Indian stuff and yeah, just making
the home nice and comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Basically, I think you got the place looking quite exotic.

Speaker 26 (01:13:25):
Yeah it is. Yes, somebody said, oh it looks really
boo and they thought, well that's great because that's what
I was aiming for.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Wow now boo.

Speaker 26 (01:13:33):
Yes, yes, I'm just an old tip.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Thank you, Louise. Nice to talk to you. Stay stay
close to people. Now I need to tell you what's
happening tonight, So hold your horse's carse We'll get you
as soon as the news is back. Just hang there.
What I've got to tell you is that we have
Dane Menzies and a snowboard slope style final eleven twenty tonight.

(01:13:58):
I'm not going to broadcast it, but he is the
best qualifier, so I presume that means he goes last.
And zoe Sadowski sinate she will be on tonight at
two thirty. That's the way it's going to go. So
we should have some action before twelve, hopefully a medal
or a PB. And then Zoey Sadowski sinate, I think

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this today is looking like a best day for medals.
She's half past two in the morning, so they're both
top qualifiers. So Golden Sunrise. You can see the headlines now,
can't you? You wake up tomorrow morning. I'll keep you
posted with all of that, but certainly with that first event.
And hold your horses, people, I'll be with you soon
in the next break. Other news tonight, not so much

(01:14:44):
happening that I can see. But it's not about the weather,
and that's a good thing. I'm not about weather warnings
or states of emergency. Marcus. The so called grain on
the table is called the NAP and runs from the
d N to the top spot. I've never had a
problem with marketplace that works really well. Biggest tessa is
getting people to pick stuff up and commit to a time.

(01:15:04):
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten, eight ninety nine
two deticts Marcus till twelve. How are you going, people,
Keisper Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:15:15):
Yeah, you're talking about the recovering of tables, mate, Snooker
Billiards or Paul. Okay, so you got Heathee's Billiards at
dirt and Pop Black they do it in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Also, is there a specialist person that moves tables around
the country.

Speaker 18 (01:15:29):
Yes, Pop Black and Hethhee's Billiards, Yes, they both do it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:15:34):
So if you just say, if you needed five or
six tables, for a tournament you don't have enough tables,
well you're hire them off them and they bring them
to you and they make sure they're all nice and straight,
all leveled and everything scocial with them. But there is
a bit of a bit of an art to re
clopping a table because you get in the slate and

(01:15:54):
what might you be surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Sorry, sorry Kisper, you just have a clitch to but
you get what in the in the in the slate.

Speaker 18 (01:16:01):
You get a lot of nicks in the slates through
the cues and yet through people not using the cues
and digging into the field. And they also get a
lot of chalk underneath a cloth that will create little
bubbles in the field also.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
So do they send the slate down.

Speaker 18 (01:16:20):
Correct, Yeah, they put on or some sort of stuff.
I've seen them. I've seen them do it, and so yeah,
there is a it's a bit of work in doing that, mate,
But they come up absolutely beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
When they transport them. Do they transport the horizontally?

Speaker 9 (01:16:36):
Uh?

Speaker 18 (01:16:38):
They laid them down. Yeah, they you know, they laid
them down just on top of each other, but they're
all covered and then they've got dividers and yeah, and
then you need three or four other men at the
other end. And then we've got a proper pool table
trolley and we just put on the trolley and we
just wheel it and it's like you know, wheeling a
coffin in and out. That's something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Are there tables that are made in New Zealand?

Speaker 18 (01:17:03):
Yes, she makes them. Eat and my pack Arel Heath.
He's brilliant, very very very good and pot black pop black.
They do tables down in the south, in the north
and the Star of unconcerned.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Okay, where would they get the interesting for white pack
Where would they get the slate from?

Speaker 18 (01:17:23):
I'm not too sure. He makes it from scratch, Andy Heathy.
It's it's called hef it's brilliant. He makes it from scratch.
Absolutely beautiful competition tables.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:17:35):
And to get what and he got in charge is
probably three or four thousand for a recover. That's a
whole recover of the table. That's a cloth included. And yeah,
but no, absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Is I've never thought about that? Is it? Is it
possible for the slate to get broken?

Speaker 23 (01:17:56):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:17:57):
Or no?

Speaker 18 (01:17:58):
It has to be pretty rough on the table, like
you know, if someone was dancing on the table with
you know, being silly. The heels could go into the
slate and it'll just recall the felt and but probably
not broken. I've never heard of their markets.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
How thick is the slate?

Speaker 18 (01:18:16):
Oh, it's very heavy.

Speaker 17 (01:18:19):
I can tell you that.

Speaker 18 (01:18:21):
Oh might be keen, might be something like that. Yeah,
but they do do them in New Zealand. So they've
got it done. This for his table and the ship.
It sounds like it was well done. But there is
a bit of that erstand and doing the competition tables.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
A little bit of an update.

Speaker 18 (01:18:39):
I tell you, I played in that Paul competition Paul
competition last weekend, so Goup eating in the quarter finals,
so top eight, it wasn't too bad or quite heavy
that someone that doesn't even play the game.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Did you play in the other top seven? That they
have a consolation for those eight those if you went
out early?

Speaker 18 (01:19:00):
No, no, no, no. We went right through to the
quarter finals. And the guys that put us out in
the quarter finals they went on win it. I think
it was six hundred each or seven hundred each or
something like that. Yeah, so we were in the money.
So but that was good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Oh, well done. Do they make the pool, they make
the they make, they make the cues. Now I know
where the cues are made.

Speaker 18 (01:19:22):
Now, yes, you know he exports them all from England.
That we're talking about Andy Heathy or Heth.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
He's brilliant.

Speaker 18 (01:19:30):
He's got a big showroom and wipe around.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Is he a good player as well?

Speaker 18 (01:19:37):
Yeah, he doesn't play too much now, but yeah, he
was very very good. But as showroom markers is is
out it's outstanding.

Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:19:47):
If you go to buy a queue or any pool
snook accessories, it's ot table set up in the showroom
and you can ever hit with the queue you choose
to buy and whatnot name. Yeah, I recommend them to anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Do all the Does all the slate come from the
same place?

Speaker 18 (01:20:04):
I'm not too I'm not too sure Marcus on that.
I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
No, No, it's right. Someone will know by the way
they call it bays not felt. A lot of people
are texting about that. You didn't know that? Did you
know that you stitched out? Yeah? Okay, thanks Casper. It
sees the Ligurian region of Italy is considered the highest quality.

(01:20:28):
Oh yes, original Italian slate for the that's chet GPT.
I don't know how they get that. I guess their
machine at that flat. I don't know what the non
slate ones are. It's Marcus. Good evening, sne Marcus three.

Speaker 27 (01:20:46):
Interesting check from your previous quarter regarding.

Speaker 16 (01:20:49):
Paul in your stuff.

Speaker 27 (01:20:51):
Oh, absolutely, quite fascinating. I didn't realize that slate was
underneath the felt.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
I don't know. I guess it's I guess on some
of the I don't know. I guess the cheaper ones
it's not slate, but I don't know what it is.
I guess it might be some sort of wood or something.

Speaker 27 (01:21:04):
Oh, probably pine wood.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know that.

Speaker 28 (01:21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:21:08):
Anyway, Incidentally, marketplace, i've only had great results. Do you
know what was created or launched in October twenty sixteen, so.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
It's not that old, less than ten years.

Speaker 27 (01:21:23):
So I saw a near new bike Bauer Bia Yulia
because silly me, well, the young fellow soldier for me.
It was too big, the frame was too big, and
I saw that. The fellow came to my place. He said, no, Oneder,
you can't write it. He was six foot four. I'm
five foot four, so you know. So he stood in
front of me and did the transaction online and went

(01:21:46):
through honest, decent guy. And recently I saw a piece
of jewelry. I went round for girls place. She's been
watching it, and I brought the price down transaction and cash.
So there are honest people on marketplace.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Oh so you actually do it. You do the phone
transaction while you're there in front to them, and then
you see it's gone through late.

Speaker 27 (01:22:08):
Yeah. So he didn't have cash for the bike. This
is going back like five years. But recently I thought
I'll just try having this jewey which I never wore.
She liked it and she gave me cash. She actually
gave me ten dollars extra. Yeah, so I don't they
don't come to me. Oh, one person came to my
place and I went to the other person's place. So

(01:22:30):
it's you know, you've got to trust people.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Did he ride the bike home when he put it.

Speaker 27 (01:22:34):
On the back of the car, he put it in
the boot big yeah no he so please said, you know,
he's making use of it, and the lovely girls making
use of my jewelry I never wore. So you know,
such as life.

Speaker 4 (01:22:47):
Good on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Thanks, So I appreciate that You're welcome. Bye, nice to talk.
Thank you ma, oh wait one hundred and eighty to
any moa, miss Marcus. Good evening. Here's at the end
the bitter end marketplace and scams and pull table and
felt and Bayze. I think bays is different from felt.

(01:23:12):
Felt is made from matted fibers. Bayes is woven. It's
actually woolen like Marino.

Speaker 17 (01:23:22):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
Most of them are green, aren't they? Beaze? We talked
about Beaze. I don't know what I'm saying that, Nikki.
It's Marcus. Hello.

Speaker 29 (01:23:38):
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 30 (01:23:39):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Good Knicks? Thanks good, Nikki, thank you.

Speaker 28 (01:23:42):
That's good.

Speaker 29 (01:23:43):
I've sold quite a bit over on marketplace over there years.
But about three years ago I had an interesting experience
in christ Church. I was selling some black stiletto heels
on marketplace.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Oh yeah, that would be interesting, it.

Speaker 29 (01:24:01):
Was, so I did it. I was contacted about a
week before Christmas from this guy on ACKed out his
profile and he had a photo of him with his baby,
and I thought, oh, that's really nice. He's obviously buying
them for his partner or wife for Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
And so he.

Speaker 29 (01:24:19):
Said he was interested. And then a couple of days
later I got another message from him saying could I
just send a photo with my foot in the show
just so he could see what.

Speaker 27 (01:24:30):
It looked like.

Speaker 29 (01:24:32):
You can probably see where this is going. So I
sent the photo. I just thought, oh, you know, maybe
maybe that was legit. And then didn't hear from him
for another week. And then I was sitting there with
my two sisters on Christmas Eve and he flipped up
again on Marketplace and said, could I send through a

(01:24:53):
photo of me walking in the stiletto here? And I thought, right, okay,
this is getting creepy, so I blocked him, but it
didn't give us a bit of a laugh and sort
of showed the darker side of Marketplace. And oddly enough
a year almost a year later, I was selling another
pair of blacks to Lettos and lo and behold, Brody

(01:25:15):
showed up online marketplace meet So he obviously didn't keep
a list of names that said previously. He must have
created a new profile and was out there still stalking
woman for their black stiletto heels.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
I wonder what that goes a shot and then it
goes a video one, what's next?

Speaker 29 (01:25:35):
Well I did, I wasn't hanging around.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
What did your sisters? Reckoned? The next one? We don't
really want to know, do we.

Speaker 29 (01:25:42):
Well, I didn't give us a bit of a laugh.
We've had a couple of champagnes by page, so it
was a bit hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Initially I thought, oh, that might be fine. It might
be a cross dress that probably doesn't want to go
through to clothing shops to buy them, so that would
marketplace would work out well. But when you're looking for
shots and things like that, that does seem a bit surprising,
doesn't it. Yeah, nice to talk Nikki, Thank you stud
If that's extremely easy, well, crossdresses, is it? I don't
know if that's the modern expression for it or not

(01:26:08):
apologize if I've fitted everyone and google that up or
maybe not in the work or yeah, who cares anyway?
Eight eighty nine text do you want to come through?
And the strange questions people have asked you on Facebook marketplace.

(01:26:29):
Now I have news from christ Church. Police have swarmed
a christ Church street after reported home invasion with several
people were injured. A reporter on the scene at Hjuane
Street in North kit said there were multiple police cars
and amblances on the road. The reporter was told by

(01:26:50):
police at the scene there had been reports i've shots
been fired. This is yet to be confirmed. Apparently it's
a reported home invasion and that several people are injured.
That is news just through. It sounds very serious, although

(01:27:13):
it does say on the Google Maps at the Hawaiian
street is Papa Noui, but I'm not. I don't know
there was a sury called Northkote, but that's it's just
near the Northland Shopping Center. It just runs perpendictate to
the square that is in So that's a situation there.
You've got any more information, let me know and I'll

(01:27:35):
do the same. With this more information, I will tell
you about that. But that does sound like a Free
Seriu serious incident, and I've got no other news sites
reporting that of just yet their shots fired at the
suburb of north Look, I say it's North kit I'm
not quite sure it's Northcote or Northcote on my apologies
if that's if that's not the way it's pronounced. But

(01:27:58):
we'll see if we get some more information. Twenty one
past ten Summer's text it through. I didn't realize this.
It says a full size tables have five pieces of
slate placed across the table and can be up to
two inches thick every heavy Aha, So I guess it's
not one, but because there would be vulnerabilities in that.
But yeah, five bits banged together two inches thick.

Speaker 8 (01:28:22):
High.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Marcus criminal defense lawyer here have seen many cases involving
both Marketplace and trade me, but in the last six
to seven years it's much more Marketplace than trade me.
Seems to be the wild West on marketplace with fake
accounts and fake sales. I wouldn't touch it. Yeah, and
it seems as though from the reports tonight it's local operators.

(01:28:46):
It doesn't seem to be overseas ones. But that's just
from what I've heard. But yes, do get in touch.
Marcus till twelve, eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine to text. So yes, if you've got something
to add to that or talk about things, it's mainly

(01:29:09):
pool tables and marketplace. Well if it's only about that, really,
Jade says, so many people are selling cooked food on marketplace.
Why would you buy that never know what they have
put in it? Well, I guess you're thinking is if
they're going to do it regularly, you'd want to put
good food in it. You've got to trust people. I
don't know if you need a commercial kitchen to sell it,

(01:29:30):
I don't know about that. I know the food preparation
laws are quite stringent. I'm looking for more information about.
If you've got more information on christ Church, let me know. Well,
actually some of the other stuff I can tell you
about two. That's why to day is significant in New
Zealand history. It's the day that Pluto is discovered, was discovered,

(01:29:52):
is discovered, was discovered, and then it's no longer a thing.
So nineteen thirty Pluto was discovered, and nineteen fifty seven
when it was New Zealand's last execution, which I think
was pretty sketchy. I think that probably wasn't a tried
and safe case. That one I think was a poisoning
somewhere near Huangani were in that part of the country.

(01:30:12):
I think we probably talked about that last year on
the anniversary. I remember calls on that. It's also ash
Wednesday today ash Wednesday, so you might I don't know
too much about that. I guess you got to church
that day, do you? Then you give something up as
is that right? You might want to explain more about that.
You might do penance, You might be fasting or praying

(01:30:37):
or wearing sackcloth and ashes, and good luck if you're
doing that, and feel free to get touch on and
enjoy the discussion tonight. Oh eight hundred eighty and nine
to nine two de text. I think you just sackcloth
is literally there. It's just old sacks, just stitch together.
Never seen anyone wear it, but yeah, it do come through.

(01:31:00):
By the way, daylight savings time not far away now.
It will end on April April the fifth. That's when
you put your clocks forward an hour. So yep, that's
daylight saving now I can tell you too well. I've
got other news. I'm waiting for you to call about
pool Tables. The Spice Girl's thirty year reunion Netflix drama

(01:31:23):
is xed a mid ongoing tension between the girl band
Jerry is on the fence with a design and mid
growing tension between her and mel B. So yes, the
fans will be devastated, but it's not going to happen.
So that's the situation there. They say, it doesn't mean
it won't happen in the future. Yep. I guess some

(01:31:45):
of them might need the Dora me. But that's the
spy Skirls update for you. Yep, so.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Oh wait und eighty nine nine text you want to
talk Marcus on midnight you've got more news about Christ
chich let me know al though, I think probably to
the morning we get more information about that. Yep. And
also about Lent. You want to add that into the mix.
Might be something that you've partaken. It's not something I've
ever done or ever likely to. I never say never,
don't think I'm likely to be doing it. Twenty seven

(01:32:19):
away from eleven o'clock, someone said Marcus regarding the incident Christ,
which looked like they had every police stunit in Christ
at the scene. There at least four or five ambulances.
Apparently Marcus were driving along Manchester Street and pulled over
with the police star about thirty minutes ago. The police
car was absolutely flying. It actually created a wind effect
on our capin that flew past. We knew something made

(01:32:39):
you was happening. Yes, so that's happening. Also, if you've
got some more information about that eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine two detext. If you've got
some information, it'd be good to hear from you about that. Yes,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Brendan, it's Marcus. Greetings
and welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
Oh Marcus, say when Tom Joe's back.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Or Ford twenty three hours?

Speaker 28 (01:33:08):
No, it goes back one one go in Spa and
spring spring Ford and in ordin full falls.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
Back ut less. You've got a clock that you can
only put forward, like the one on Dan's car, and
then it'll take twenty three hours, but it'd be good
to go. Were are you brilliant? You're not in christ
Each are you?

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
I am impressio.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Okay, now they're now reporting that Papa Nui. I think.
So that's a situation that I don't know my cross
rich suburbs that well. They are saying it's a major incident.
Some of the reports are saying four people are injured.
And we are talking Facebook marketplace, and we are talking
pool tables and Blaze Bayze Blaze bays. It sounds like

(01:33:52):
one of the dogs on poor patrol, doesn't it. Is
it Blaze Blaze? It's Baize, not blaze. Ah. So he says,
pop around the Mike's place. I believe he's a full
sized snooker table. Yes, I don't think you want a
snooker table in your house, would you. They're always in
those sort of dusty, sort of sort of funereal rooms

(01:34:14):
gathering dust. Oh yeah, I don't think it's I mean,
it's not a very flexible thing. Why have your Christmas table?
You put christmas to their put boards on top of
the billion table. There's only a table big enough. I think.
I actually hate to say this, but I think I
think pool tables are a interior design nightmare. Try and

(01:34:35):
fit your house around that. What else do I have
quite strong views about? Today is going to tell you about.
There's something else I thought, well, that's not my thing anyway,
I can't remember what that was. It'll crop up from
time to time. Be in touch if you want to
be a part of the show. People. It's twenty two
away from eleven lines there free where two about marketplace
and your scams and anything else. But all the lines
are free available therefore you if you want to talk,

(01:34:58):
if there's something different you want to talk about. They're
also talking about the tunnel through Mount Victoria. The new
one will not happen, the congestion charging again. So there's that,
But anything goes hit till twelve o'clock to night. People
and we're still looking for more information in christ Church.
If you've got me oh eight hundred and eighty to
eighty nineteen nine to detext an instant unvolding in Northcote

(01:35:22):
or Pepa Nui. A lot of people have been in
christ Church where police cars went flying past. So yeah,
that's a situation there. People. If you've got something to say,
let me think what else I can string you along
with tonight, peeps, keep my posture straight, keep my microphone straight.

(01:35:44):
I had white marks on the side of my glasses.
I couldn't work out what they were for. I finally
worked out today it's we're in tear from my headphones
mainly on one side, which was a surprise buy. And
esh Wednesday if anyone wants to mention that, catch you
soon twenty one away from eleven o'clock nineteen to eleven Johnny,

(01:36:04):
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome even Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:36:08):
Yes, now I've got a story about the pool table
right actually a snuga table.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (01:36:15):
We pulled it apart. Took me a week to pull
it apart by myself. Full size. I think it's five
piece sleep and what do I want to pull it
apart underneathaid nineteen thirty two on it as I think
that that's that's when it was made by Rooxville where
and it was a native usually a native.

Speaker 9 (01:36:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:36:34):
Well what happened was the manager worked for a coumpany.
He wanted he to come and see me. He said,
you can have for two thousand dollars. That was I
wasn't interested. A week lad he came back to he
had four thousand. He showed me the poor table. So
I went up. It was two flights up and I
think it cost them more to get a move then
you know that he can sell it for So we

(01:36:58):
ended up getting for nothing because they had to move
out of the building and the time ran out, and
so we moved to later his big forecliff a container
and clift that few stories Johnny.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Was it built there? Would it fit outside? Would it
fits through the door?

Speaker 16 (01:37:16):
They had a Roan Slaughter's on the dick.

Speaker 26 (01:37:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:37:19):
So we put it on pealetts yeah, and and cardad
that it was four of us Canada onto the deck,
put on pallets the fore cliff to put it on
the container to drop it down a few stories down.
We still got it actually sitting down a farm in
the container.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
So you never put it back together.

Speaker 16 (01:37:39):
Yeah, we put it back again. We had it down
there and we had it in a big one of
my brothers. Uh, he's got a big area. We had
it in there and we had it for up fourteen
years or so, but he got a new wife, so
we had to strip it down and put it in
a container.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
So why would it take it? Why would it take
a week to was it boat? Was it boat? Why
would it take a week to take a part?

Speaker 16 (01:38:01):
I pulled it a part of myself because I got
my other brother lifted up and there was still heavy. Yeah,
there's five pieces of slate that here he is. So
we had to pull it apart. Took a just all
the all the size or unbolted.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
And they mean they oh so they are bolted. They
meant they built to be able to take to be
able to be taken apart.

Speaker 16 (01:38:22):
Absolutely, you wouldn't be able to movie one go just
to be heavy there, so they'd be one two thousands.
We're going for nothing because they had to move out
of the building. So they was trying to sell to
me at the time. Right now, we have taken us
for a nothing at the end of the day.

Speaker 19 (01:38:34):
Did you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
Did you refeltered? They'll get someone to do that professionally.

Speaker 16 (01:38:39):
No, the film was nothing wrong with the film.

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
Oh so you're took it apart. They put that back on.

Speaker 16 (01:38:44):
They put it back on. Yes, and looks like when
the field was down they had played a choke on it.
So they were cleaned the choke off and we put away,
of course, and pretty good but yet no problems at all. Yeah,
that was good. We still at their pull table. We're
just wanted another venue for well.

Speaker 2 (01:39:03):
Were a good player.

Speaker 16 (01:39:05):
Oh, I'll tell you what you said. You're pretty good
to you on the stall to snooker table and you're
not very good.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
Nice to talk, Johnny. Thank you, Taylor, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:39:15):
Oh today Marcus are doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
Taylor.

Speaker 6 (01:39:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:39:18):
Good.

Speaker 13 (01:39:19):
It's good to hear your store around the legendary Marcus Lush. Yeah. Anyway,
I was just going to say the marketplace of over
the last five years, I've sold a lot, just household stuff,
downsizing my stuff, whatever. But I've noticed nowadays that people's

(01:39:41):
prices are getting quite high. And you know, you'd rather
buy it on team for a brand new or buy it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
That's right, because new stuff new stuff's getting cheaper, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:39:51):
Oh yeah, well Team Who's it's good? It's good if
you know, if you really look at the photo and
the size, you know what I mean, because otherwise might
be caught out in the quality like this. I've got
a friend there buys stuff off Team, the clothing, and
and he's a really fussy guy, but he had he

(01:40:13):
had at a difficulty with the sizes, you know, getting
the sizes right. So he had to sort of get
himself measured up and that by a friend just to pick.

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
The right size.

Speaker 13 (01:40:24):
But yeah, I was just just saying about marketplace. The
So I've done really well, like selling stuff for myself
and my neighbor because he doesn't have an Android phone,
and for for years, but then recently in the last
couple of years since the well after the COVID, people
are really struggling. So it's like they put high prices

(01:40:46):
on the items, and I then when you ask them
when when you sell something, I've got to put a
high price on because they try to knock me back. Yeah.
Do you have you ever tried selling something? They always
want to know, they always want to knock you back.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
You know, you made this dressing on Timo what sort
of clothes he into?

Speaker 13 (01:41:08):
Oh, he's done too late. Stuff was really cool designs
on it because he's he's got teddies all around his
neck and so he wants to look cool, you know
what I mean. But no label stuff, just stuff that's interesting.
So he goes through and looks a really out of
it stuff and I'm like, oh, there's the cool top
and he's like yeah, I'm like, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Really much to check it out, Tyler, thank you, Marion,
Mary and Mary and Mary and Marcus welcome.

Speaker 30 (01:41:37):
Hello.

Speaker 31 (01:41:40):
I look, I I was Marcus. I was just looking
at the Facebook and Chris Lynch, who lives in christ Church,
he used to do the morning program before John McDonald
did it on, said be sure and he has the
news a news page, and I just read his news

(01:42:01):
page regarding the Papa Nui incident and he's that four
people have been seriously injured. One was multiple staborn and
they've been taken off the hospital. So that's that's the

(01:42:21):
update that he gave.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
It says it says four injured, including persons stabbed. But yeah,
I think with the reporters, it's always good to hear
from that from Saint John's for the endance to get
reports of that, because often sometimes you can get misinformation.
But look, I do appreciate you coming through that, Marion,
thank you for that. For those that have just joined us.
There has been a very serious incident in christ Church, Papanui, Northcote.

(01:42:50):
News media are reporting and I'll tell you what the
latest is here. It's a reported home invasion and that
several people are injured and shots have been fired in
the christ Church suburb. It's Hawani Street in Northcote, Northcote
or Papa Nui. Thanks Marion. From eleven eight eight From

(01:43:12):
eleven good evening, Graham, it's Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:43:14):
Welcome, No Marcus hanging good, Thanks Graham, No bad.

Speaker 15 (01:43:19):
I just want to not tantisarily, but I'll talk about
the freedom campiing because I'm a freedom champeron myself with
the Soular panel stuff, but the council have got no
freedom campig on certain parts. There's a toilet right there. Yeah,
and it's like it doesn't make sense where you know

(01:43:41):
you're going to be self contained. And I said the
freedom champion spot, but there's a toilet in the celsa's
right there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
I think councilors do struggle with the freedom campers because
if they're allowed to be there, there can be a
lot of them.

Speaker 9 (01:43:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:43:57):
Well, in my worst by that freedom campers, because I'm
a tidy piers on my phone by trade. But they
make a miss and I think that's where the history
is coming from. Because campers have no tour in the car.
They come for their rubbers over the banks and stuff,
and yeah, it's not good. But my issue is we're
there's no Fredom camping. You're going to be self contained.

(01:44:20):
And I'm in a car with a solar pedal and
full drove vehicle. But I keep place t use rubbishments,
but I pack up by a toilet, no using toilet
for cels, so I'm not defecating around the air or anything.
So yeah, but it's like the councils are shutting the

(01:44:41):
places down. They say no car camping is anything, and yeah,
it's getting hard. I live in my car.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
What's part of the are you do? You just stay
one part of the country.

Speaker 15 (01:44:53):
No, I travel the country. I've been all over. I've
been giving the moment. I've just been six days of
nature and a gets at the moment and I'm heading
down to Moral Well I've got a good set up.
I'm a Nasal four drug vehicle and I've got a
fridge and solar panel and yeah, i've got to patch

(01:45:13):
it back and anything. I'll get a good set up.

Speaker 11 (01:45:16):
But yeah, and just do you find do you find?

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
Do you find that it's.

Speaker 8 (01:45:20):
Enforced and doesn't like?

Speaker 15 (01:45:22):
Why get caught here? Now I'll get a two hundreds fine,
but I'm not self contained. I'm going to to my
car when I impart right, I'm beside a public toilet.
No I opened at eight o'clock in the morning, so
I can go and go to in the morning, but
I might get caught here now I'll get to turn
right by.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Yeah, do you pay it?

Speaker 15 (01:45:43):
Well, yeah, I always pay it. I've had a few,
you know. But I'm fucked right aside the public toilet.
Well open at eight o'clock in the morning, and I'm
going to my car, and that's why I get fired.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Yeah, Okay, I don't know the solution there, but nice
to hear from your Graham. Thank you. Let's leave it there.
I don't know what more to say about that, but
for the age old problem is freedom camping. But I'm
not entirely sure what I can say about that. Now
she's a problem thought. This is Marcus Good Evening.

Speaker 6 (01:46:17):
Good evening, Marcus MATTEI, Marcus, I'd like to talk about
the cost of living.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
She's through the roof, I see. Or the price of
vegetables is through the roof.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Yes, And I don't think anything is going to with
regard to the budget and what have you, is going
to change to twenty twenty eight. So we're kind of
stuck in this position. I really feel for the gardeners
that are now termed growers, and that for a country
that can actually feed itself, we're more obsessed with sending

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the overseas, not making good produce available to local people.
I get they need to import an export, but a
lot of it this goes to waste. The see thats
uping someone freezer. I think that there are margins on
supermarkets and the monopolieve they have over the market, and

(01:47:13):
you need to look more into our food sovereignty. I
know it's kind of, you know, an inconvenient thing, but
actually nurturing the garden at the end, a hanging garden
in the apartment block, or or a bucket on your
back step, getting some plants and seededlings into the into

(01:47:36):
the dirt and having fresh produce, you know, from guarding
to players the way to go.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
I did talk about the third entry coming into the
supermarket sector, but I don't know when that's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (01:47:49):
I'm not sure about that, but I can tell you
that my majority of supermarkets here or Australia all have
you countdown back in the day. Three guys four square.
I think they've you know, they've been run a long time.
But there's no other options, like two main players.

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
There's a new player in christ Church that's coming. Did
you christ Church Kai food or something?

Speaker 6 (01:48:18):
I think yeah, for the margins, it's it's reasonable And
I don't know, maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
I didn't mean to meet you. I'm gonna head for news,
but I didn't mean to meet you that. So maybe
some people have tried that kaikar and they can tell
us give it a bit of a report, because I
did hear it was in christ Church. I don't know
if it's scott market share or not, but the guy
seemed pretty onto it. Oh, the boomers are ecstatic that
Burnside's got no Internet. That's a number of people have
commented about that, highly amused Burnside High School has their Internet?

(01:48:49):
Don't they have paper and box? Well, they probably want
to get with the future. Surprised people even go to school.
That guy needs to join the motor home associations. They
have plenty of areas, a lot of you zere you
can park for next to nothing. Oh now, now I
don't know that, Jane. I don't understand your text. Here's

(01:49:12):
a great text. I'd like somebody to explain what happened
on Coronation Street tonight. It seems to have flashed forward
more than two months. Could someone explain that there seems
to have been a quantum shift, or they've gone through
the space time continuum, or maybe someone's misrecorded it. Could
someone tell me what's happened on Coronation Streets not if
there has been a jump beyond pool tables. My glasses

(01:49:37):
that I needed in my forties have reshaped my skull.
I now have groos behind my ears in my skull
that never existed before Pancake Tuesday yesterday, and the situation is,
by all accounts still unfolding. In christ Church police and
ambulance don't comment while the event is underway. That seems

(01:50:01):
to be protocol. So I guess anything that we do
here is speculation. It seems as though people have been
it seems what we do know is that shots have
been fired and a number of people have been injured
and they've been taken to hospital. But people in christ
Church report a large number of ambulances and police cars

(01:50:25):
heading out that way. So that's that, And if you
want to be in touch, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty also talking about Oh, by the way, someone's won
four point five million in Powerball for the one But
of good news for today, isn't it need your call
for the final ar I'm just looking at the it's
quite actual. I haven't really look much at the setup.

(01:50:45):
It looks like a good setup at the snowboarding. You know,
it's all on the sum Mountain. All the events seem
to be next to each other. It's quite I mean,
clearly it's at altitude and they've got snow, which is great.
So I think there's twelve people going in this event
in the New Zealander as the last because they're the
highest qualifier. I don't know how long would take. I
mention it's probably going to be over in half an hour,
So if you want to go and watch that. I
don't have a problem with that, But if you want

(01:51:06):
to talk on air, I want to know about Coronation Street,
if you've got the information about christ Jewge. Also, someone
said I was just about to watch Coro ketch up
on tv D plus. You could have warned me spoiler.
I don't know what the spoiler is. By the way,
a lot of judges, it seems about ten judges and
the snowboarding. We'll also to know why Bully the Priest
and crow Street left the street. Got no idea. It's

(01:51:27):
been a long time since I've watched to be twenty
years since I've watched it, and even then it was intermittent.
They must be trying to turn it off soon, aren't they.
Goodness me is ken Bally is still alive? Even that
are the answer that I'm answering my own questions. If
you want to don't want to talk about I want
to watch the Olympics. That's this is when we could
round gold medal. It's about to happen. It's like a

(01:51:48):
it's like a snowboarding downhill course with jumps, and it's
got ten judges that tell you how you've done. So
you sort of slide down each yes and things. If
you do more dangerous stuff you get more points, but
then of course you could all go bad for you
if you fall over. It's a fine line doing difficult
and competent. He's the first guy going now, number twenty one.

(01:52:10):
He's from Norway down the edge. Poor. I thought the
leg's out of control, no composure. Next one hardly hit
it over a flat top. Next one seemed to be
a bit better, he says to improving as he goes down,
getting some speed. Now going side to side, to slow
down a bit, big jump down the edge a little bit.
I don't know how all the judges see all this.

(01:52:31):
They might be watching TV one two, A six triple.
Then he's off, there's downfall and over. Well, gosh, that
was a waste of time, wasn't it all that practice?
But he was the twelfth Yeah, that's him over Charlotte.
AT's Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:52:46):
Good evening, Good evening. Now you were wondering about Coronation Street.
I haven't been watching it very much, you know, in
the last few years of and he'd just gone back
to watch it. But about tom maybe three weeks ago,
there was there was a program that was Cold Farm

(01:53:08):
and Coronation Street. I think it was called Corradale and
it was two. They called it Corradale and that they
had it. So there there was a there was a
wedding somebody. There was somebody who had got married in
Coronation Street and they were going, you know, one way,
and then there was people from Emdale were coming the
other way.

Speaker 30 (01:53:28):
Crash.

Speaker 27 (01:53:30):
Yeah, they ad a lot.

Speaker 28 (01:53:32):
On the road.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
It was. It was a combination with them. I've never
heard the sounds fantastic. I don't ca't believe I have
heard of this.

Speaker 28 (01:53:39):
Yeah, I was because I used to watch a bit too,
but I didn't know any of the people that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
Called Corydale or one off sixty minute crossover.

Speaker 28 (01:53:51):
Yeah yeah, and so yeah, so we're back now for
most of the normal ones. Yet I don't know half
of them still yet, you know the ones that I
knew from way back when I was when I was young.

Speaker 27 (01:54:04):
But what a fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
So did the wedding was a person from the street
marrying a people a person for me that they came
together for a wedding.

Speaker 28 (01:54:17):
Yeah, No, they were just going somewhere, I suppose on
the honeymoon of it all went somewhere anyway, because there
will be stuffer wedding clothes, so maybe they were going
to the reception or something. I don't know, and there
was didn't show. I mean, if I'd watched Emidal, I
probably would have worked out what was going on on
that side of it. And then they just sort of

(01:54:38):
somehow something went crashed in the middle of the two roads,
and so that's how they got rid of a few people.
But as I say, I don't know who half the
people are in Coronation Street heading war, so I just
only sort of watch. And yes, Ken Barlow is still
in it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
Oh, so the two lots crashed into each other.

Speaker 28 (01:54:59):
Yes, they had accident. There was a big accident, a
big pile up carthing and the there were a few
people killed. Wow, they have it the h because they
were advertising on TV for quite a while.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
A lot of fun but in a grim way. But
good on them for combined that's great. Oh okay, oh,
thank you, thank you Charlotte for a lightning Be honest.

Speaker 28 (01:55:22):
I don't know when he's done by the same company
or I think.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Look, I think they're both. They're both owned by ITV,
so yes they would. Yeah, they're both the same company apparently.

Speaker 28 (01:55:33):
Yeah. Yeah, but you've still got Kim Barlow, isn't it brilliant?

Speaker 2 (01:55:36):
Okay, well, thank you, Charlotte. I had no idea about that.
Don't know how that passed me by Morris. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:55:43):
Oh thanks Marcus for taking my call. I think I
can show some life on tonight's episode. I've always been
an average corro men myself, but people who watched it
tonight have seen different plots. Different things have happened tonight,
very dramatic. Now that's a little insight to what's going
to happen to all those different people. If you think

(01:56:06):
about what's actually happened and the scenes they watched, and
you wonder what's going to happen, then the first of
those scenes will probably play out tomorrow night because of
the final scene was some woman screaming and then and
when da. So that's my take on it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
That's new territory they have that they're trying to make
it interesting. Is that what they're trying to do.

Speaker 19 (01:56:33):
That's a bit of a feeder.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
Yeah, yeah, I've never heard them do that before. That's
quite exciting.

Speaker 19 (01:56:38):
Oh, they did it once before, not too long ago.
I can't think what it was about now, but they
kind of sut this sort of stuff in there. Yeah,
that's that's anyway. That's my take on it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:50):
What was your take on Morris? What was your take
on Currydale?

Speaker 19 (01:56:54):
Oh? Yeah, okay, that was a one off and the
lady you just rung was correct. Both ITV crossovers because briefly,
some people have a peer in Coronation Street vice versa.
In fact, I think one of the actors has come
over from from from from Corondale.

Speaker 8 (01:57:16):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Was it good?

Speaker 17 (01:57:16):
Did it work?

Speaker 19 (01:57:18):
I think so. I couldn't give you an honest opinion
of it because I'm not really a coldale.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
The chemos don't seem to be that. The only time
we watched Emma Dale was when we were waiting for
our COVID announcements that we got back into it. But yeah,
that was wo's ever seen it exactly?

Speaker 19 (01:57:36):
But like yourself now, there are a lot of people who,
oh Coronation Street, Eni Shaple still in Coronation Streets come
an awful long way. It's a different type of program
what it used to be when Ennis Shapeless, and I
can tell you there's lots of drama it's a it's
a good show and proofson a pudding. It's been over

(01:57:59):
sixty years.

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
Exactly the most successful show we ever. Thank you so much.
Morris twenty six, Part eleven. I thought the snowboarding thing
will be over quite quickly, but they have three goes each,
so yeah, I think one for an hour and a half.
That would be my take on that. Hello, Shelley, it's Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:58:15):
Oh yeah, good, thanks Shelly.

Speaker 30 (01:58:17):
That's good right, Cory Dale, Haha, you've got to watch
it really yep. Right, I'll give you a run down.
Starts out Coronation Street at the wedding okay, yeah, Emma
Dale Farm, the craps kicked off. A guy had got

(01:58:40):
married and his ex husband's come back to get him
and they've jumped in the car and zooming off.

Speaker 13 (01:58:48):
With a gun.

Speaker 30 (01:58:49):
Okay, and that's where the van from Coronation Street is
heading the other way and they have a massive head
on accident. Now it's all still playing out because in
Coronation Street. Oh, Kevin who runs the garage.

Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
He's still there.

Speaker 30 (01:59:12):
He's still there. Well, he had a sister pop up
who they've had a brother come out of the woodwork. Okay,
turns out it's her son, but he was the one
drink driving and cause the accident, and he put her

(01:59:35):
in the driver's seat. Yes, and she's just gone to
jail for it. So all the rest of the stories
are playing out. And yeah, it was well done. And
I thought when they had the funeral for Billy, it's
a shame they didn't have some of their Emma Dale characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(02:00:01):
so I think they need to do that again.

Speaker 8 (02:00:05):
I'd like to know ratings view.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
How far how far away as far from the rovers return.

Speaker 30 (02:00:15):
Well, I'm honestly not sure. So they had to have
been out in the countryside.

Speaker 12 (02:00:23):
Oh and.

Speaker 30 (02:00:26):
The taxi driver from Coronation Street, they have a taxi driver.
It showed it at the end of it. He had
a woman in the back of the car who she
was Frommdale and they were talking of So the taxi

(02:00:47):
driver from Coronation Street asked her about when the plane
crashed at Emmerdale. Well, by god, that takes you back
a long way away. People must just have memories, you know.
I think I wasn't even watching Ideale then, but I
have seen the scene of that and the plane comes

(02:01:10):
down and crashes in the village, and you know, they
get it quite exciting sometimes.

Speaker 16 (02:01:16):
Wow, Okay, it's all on.

Speaker 30 (02:01:19):
And that's actually how I started watching Emmadale.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Was the plane crash? Was the plane crash? Was nineteen
ninety three?

Speaker 30 (02:01:27):
Yeah, and for the long game, aren't they They bring
that sort of thing out to test your memory?

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
I think that, Shelley, But it always looked to me
that our farm was set in the path. I didn't
realize it was contemporary. But there we go.

Speaker 30 (02:01:39):
Well when they're also one thing and they have a
documentary part of Emmadale sometimes and it made me laugh.

Speaker 13 (02:01:48):
It might as well be the Deliverance movie.

Speaker 30 (02:01:52):
And they're heavy to promote it the and bred farming communities.
But yes, quite exciting. It's yeah, thats very well.

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
Did you watch it today? Does it seem a bit
weird today? Did they go forward in time?

Speaker 16 (02:02:12):
Aha?

Speaker 30 (02:02:13):
Like one of the last callers, No, I haven't seen
today's Well.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
I think I think you're for something about I think
you for something a bit special and weird.

Speaker 30 (02:02:20):
And I heard that and I haven't watched it now.
When they had the accident a woman at a Coronation Street,
I can't remember what happened to her. She was a
next copper to Carla's girlfriend, who made it out she
was dead that she come back now. Is that where

(02:02:42):
the screaming happens.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
I don't know, but you never you never really did.
And soap opera, anyone can come back anytime.

Speaker 30 (02:02:50):
Oh, yes, yes, they do that often. Yes, but a
little bit better than days of our lives.

Speaker 2 (02:02:58):
I think, yep, I never really gotten it. Actually nice
to talk to Thank you. By the way, we all
do three runs, how far as the key we guy
run yet about six, aren't we? They're not humble. They're
all over celebrators. They sort of whoop and they whoop,
They spin and they whoop, each getting better than the
last because they put the worst one down first. Must

(02:03:20):
be about three or four of Its a long slope
to go down. There's a big tube they go right across.
How did I say it was? Yeah, it's long, six
hundred fifty meters long. Marcus. My daughter used to give
me a hard time about my Cora and ebidel addiction.
And we're joking about a Corow farm or on Emondeale Street.
Then wham bam, they came out with Currydale. It's fifty

(02:03:41):
miles between Emmidale Farm and the rovers return. I realized
they're not real things. But I'm talking about how far up.
It's an hour's drive. This poor guy's waiting forever for
a score. It's like a nervous It was like a
nervous sort of a rooster. He st he's sort of
smiling and oh he's a French guy. Here's a question
for you. What are the four what four countries? Their

(02:04:05):
names are just one syllable. How many can you think of?
Bang those sir, if you want to. It takes a
while to get them, because actually only one of them
is a four letter word. I think I think some
of them might be longer. It'll keep you going, that'll
keep you wake for the last four the last twenty
minutes have done. I quiz question for you for a while.

(02:04:28):
Not many in South America. They have got long names there,
haven't they. This the sixth guy, the seventh guy. So
it's halfway through the field. So there are sixth way
through the event. It's been going for twenty minutes, so
twenty minutes time six one hundred and twenty minutes. I'll
be a two hour event. We won't know who the
medal is until half past one there would be minder
standing there. Come and text me your four one syllable

(02:04:53):
countries through I'll tell you what one of them is.
Not Lao, I don't think it's more than one syllable.
So it's a line call. Oh that guy's all over. Yeah,
he's disconsolate. They swearing. I wouldn't swear on TV. Your
parents might be watching. Where's he from? He he hasn't handled
it well Canada jeap as creepers. Oh, he's inconsolable, that guy. No,

(02:05:16):
theres been a lot of bad sportsmanship at the Winter Olympics.
Do you want to know what the four countries are?
Just one syllable? Three are in Europe, one is in Africa,
and the one in Africa is a person's name. And
it's also the name of the thing that comes out
when you clip a ticket. If I've explained that, well,

(02:05:38):
I'm going to look for a better definition because it's
too late in the night for me to explain that. Well,
a piece of waste material removed from card or tape
by being punched with a tool. You're being punched with
a tool. Because remember there was that election and they
had a recount with George Bush and al Gore and
it was all about the missing Chad. So one is

(02:06:00):
Chad and the other three are in Europe and the
countries you'll all know very well. I don't know why
they got such short names. Most of the Texters know
what they are, Spain, Greece, France, Chad. What would be
the longest name of a country in the world. That
would be an interesting question and guess amongst yourselves would

(02:06:21):
be Kazakistan or something is it? Or Czechoslovakia or oh,
it's interesting. The longest name, the longest official name for
a country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland. Of course it is. That's a chet GPT answer.

Speaker 1 (02:06:41):
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