hi
nearly there 2 weeks to go cant wait ,have the timeshere people gone away or still as active ,the forum seems to have gone quiet about them
any one just returned i have posted this before and am giong to try and not talk to them at all as recomended ,thanks
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Hi Blue
we just got back yesterday and yes the time share touts are still pushing the scratch cards but i found that a firm %26quot;no thanks%26quot; and keep walking works perfectly well...... i think its too hot at the moment even for them to argue
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Tell them you live there - they won%26#39;t bother you
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they r still in the same place on the sea front at the corner. don%26#39;t make eye contact and just say no in a firm voice. they will say %26#39;you%26#39;re english/scottish etc.
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We had 2 weeks in Larnaca,in june.
In Larnaca we didn%26#39;t see any touts at all.
But in the middle of our holiday we visited friends in Pathos for a day.
We parked in the big car park near the harbour and within 20 mins we had four touts trying to get us to rub out there scratch cards.
But as most on here have said just say NO.Ok i admit i used stronger words,but it worked.
Why is it only in Pathos that these people are alowed to do this?
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Iwas in Paphos a week ago and they are still as busy as ever
http://paphos-touts.blogspot.com/
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I am suprised that some visitors to Paphos report that they have not been bothered by timeshare touts.
Probably because they did not visit the harbour area or are not the stereotype person they are looking for.
Seems that they pick on the middle aged or older person who looks English and would seem to have a few bob.
The Cyprus Mail is aware of this problem and the Paphos authorities held a meeting in the town hall to try and stop them.
Google %26quot;Paphos touts%26quot; to find out more if you are interested.
http://paphos-touts.blogspot.com/
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as well as harbour they ride up and down in cars/mopeds as well looking for targets they are also all over centre of coral bay
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We visited for 2 weeks July/Aug and when we ventured down to the harbour we were approached just the once. We just carried on walking, avoided all eye contact and didnt say a word to them! They gave up almost immediately. If you dont speak to them they cant really get you involved in anything! Dont stress about them and have a good holiday. We did!
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hiya blue,
we went to paphos last year and yes we nearly got hooked on this stupid scam, we scratched the cards and were told oh wow u have won, just give us 5 mins and we will run u up to the hotel in the car and u can sort out what u have won, we were like oh right ok, but then my hubby looked at me and said this is a scam just keep walking, we turned round and started walking up to our apartments which was on the tomb of the kings road, we nearly got to the apartment when a car pulled up and said ok jump in my hubby said forget it we are not interested they carried on driving very slowly along side us in the end i lost it and put my face in the car and screamed at them to leave (not in those words though!) and they soon turned round and left, my hubby and i were both quite shocked as if we were elderly (mind u we are both in our early 40%26#39;s so maybe we are elderly lol)maybe we would have felt threatened to do as we were told. After lunch that day we walked down to see if we could see them to complain to the manager but nobody was there and we didnt see them for the rest of the holiday. we made the mistake by scratching the card in the first place if we had just said NO i dont think we would have had that problem. we are off back there next year as we did go to latchi this year but it wasnt the same at paphos.
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They should not spoil anyones holiday but the fact that they are there and pulling in customers still indicates that they do. Touts have now been reported in Coral Bay.
http://paphos-touts.blogspot.com/
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