Another Market, Another Scam

The ‘fake fur’ stall was a roaring success. We only ever had a couple of items back because they began to smell. But we got really good at the process and only a few ever slipped the net. Unfortunately, one of these sub-standard items we sold to a young lady who was an animal rights protester. When the bag started to smell, her vegan hippy left-wing tree-hugging lentil-munching unwashed acquaintances accused her of buying real fur. She had already been criticised for buying fake fur, and this upset her greatly. Our customer relation skills, never one of our best points, involved us laughing in her face and telling her to sod off. She took the bag to a saddlers, who told her it was indeed badly treated pelt, and she contacted trading standards. We got wind of this and quietly disappeared for a few weeks, until they lost interest and assumed we’d left. Irritatingly, the story got into the local rag and it wasn’t long until this unwelcome attention put us back on the radar of bangbang.