Mystery box (lucky bag) pop-up shop in Tallaght

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Read about this pop-up shop the other day in The Square in Tallaght and could not stop laughing at the stupidity of people wasting their money. Comments on the article confirmed most people were very disappointed with their packages and a lot of them had spent quite an amount. One woman mentioned that she got a kitchen cabinet door handle in her parcel.

There is a €15 charge to skip the queue which at that stage was about an hour long o_O

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I headed to the mystery box pop-up in Tallaght and made €100

King Colis, a mystery box pop-up shop, has arrived in Tallaght in Dublin. EVOKE headed along and more than made our money back!
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I went to a Christmas pop-up shop in Dublin selling misplaced packages and this is what was in my mystery parcels

Dublin has a new pop-up shop selling lost and misplaced packages and while the contents can be anything, my visit proved that it really is a gamble and one that might not pay off.
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In principle the idea is quite good, to save lost packages going to landfill. But if the box is full of someone else's random Temu junk, won't you just bin it anyway?
 
It's one good way of getting rid of rubbish. And if you get enough ,fools, sorry people to pay money for the ' lucky bag' sure why not take advantage.
 
Reminds me of that programme on DAVE or UK Gold or one of those other channels called "Storage Hunters" where people buy the contents of storage sheds. If you pay €25 for stuff retailing at €100 as in the article posted above that you don't need, how much time and effort will it cost you to resell them and what will you actually resell it for?
 
I hope the water due to be piped from Limerick/Clare will help some Dubliners clear their silly mindset that there is such a thing as a free meal. And paying an extra €15.00 for a more favourable place in the queue! I see more intelligence in my local bookies! Well at least Dubliners now have something to talk about.
 
If people thought logically -

They buy the stuff (very cheaply)
They check it (time consuming and costly)
They repackaged every item (time consuming and costly)
Assign a value band to it (subjective)
Transport it to the outlet (expensive)
Rent a premium outlet for short term (very expensive)
Staff the outlet (more expense)

The additional costs compared to the simple purchasing of goods is probably close to the cost price of the goods other retailers buy at, so at the end of the day, in order to make a profit, there can be very few "bargains" in this model.
 
Well Said ! Brendan.
Many thanks for the heads-up on chancers from Dublin sallying forth from Dublin to Cork. I was on the look-out most of Saturday fearing potential rip-off. I decided to activate my free travel card and head down to The Park (SV Páirc Uí Chaoimh to those outside of the Republic of Cork) to see Munster -V-Gloucester.

On leaving the bus I heard a Dublin accent and there was a group of shady people wearing hoodies promoting the Three-Card-Trick and inviting Cork Innocents to indicate the Lady-Queen @ €20.00 a time. I was certain sure which card she was, but I said nothing and kept my money in my pocket. Thanks to your warning I didn't gamble stupidly.

Nearer The Park I heard another Dublin accent from a brightly coloured sort of chip van shouting “Two-for-the-price-of-three.” He was inviting Cork people to pay good money for plastic bottles of Tipperary Water. He might have been @Purple moonlighting in Ireland's Deep South. Once more, I decided not to purchase the water. Your advice was excellent and twice in one evening I saved a few bob.

Munster won and before bussing home I headed to a nearby watering hole for some conversation, warmth and a pint. I had a choice of Beamish, Murphy's or Guinness. In a few years the much loved Dublin voice could change to sound like Limerick hurlers (e.g. Do you know who I am?) or a certain former Clare Bainisteoir (God, please save me!). Such is the power of the flow of the River Shannon. Suddenly, it dawned that a seismic shift of our culture was nearing. Will there be a second St-James's Gate in Limerick?

The barman shouted “Hey Lep, it's very strange for you not to be having a Beamish.” I informed him of the nearing culture change in the Capital while I savoured Dublin's Black Stuff. Minutes later, another Dub approached me peddling something like an After-Life-Loan. I was gobsmacked and attentive. His sales pitch was inviting and I imagined a loan that would not be paid off before I snuffed it. This sounded like Heaven until we talked about the repayment interest charges. Even on (my) death it was not a definite amount and it would be dictated by professional people outside of my family. Once again, I was nearly suckered, but I remembered the Burgmessmeister's warning to beware of some Dubs in Cork.
 
This former Dub, now happily ensconced in West Cork, knows for a fact that he's superior to the indigenous population because nothing could induce him to order an alternative pint of stout in any pub where draught Beamish was available.

Incodentally, I'm delighted that Leper's favourite rugby team managed to score three late, late tries to put a 14 man, Gloucester Second XV team away in a cold, damp, windswept O'Keeffe Park. It was one for the insomniacs!
 
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