Groupon Condos

by Zbigniew

Local real estate industry ad agency GlobalTV News recently ran this piece on a groupon-style sales promotion for a Surrey condo development:

This scam, perpetrated by property snakeoil salesman Cam Good, is nicely dissected by the Vancouver Real Estate Anecdote Archive.

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