Joe, could you get a job in The Trump Administration? We could really use your help over here! Plus Trump Loves being on camera, so even if he recognized you he'd still do the interview!
As someone who has worked at and helped to run a Paintball site for 20 years I can't tell you how much these companies piss us off. The number of people that turn up with "vouchers" thinking they'll get a full days entertainment at no extra cost only to find the people they bought them from are in no way partnered with us at all. There have been occasions we have even ran days at a loss due to it being a Childs birthday and we weren't going to ruin their day because of evil rip off merchants like these.
Bless you for doing those things, really. You shouldn’t have to, and aren’t obligated to, but it’s a really kind gesture, I wish industries like these were better regulated honestly.
This is such a shame to see companies like this that ruin paintball for so many people. I have come across these so many times over the years and it is silly just how badly they rip people off. Truth is you can go online and find many great paintball sites that are very reasonably priced and also welcoming for new players. Please don't be put off paintball by this video as it is really an amazing sport which is played all over the world. Just the odd company like this that try to get money wherever they can!!
Even tho they are completely scamming people Think of it as a plane ticket Buy the ticket, snacks, drinks ,extra luggage and everything thing else You are still paying for all the extras Se with cinemas as well but no1 goes after them Also big fan m8 keep it up
I work at a paintball centre and the amount of trouble IPG caused us is insane. They talk utter bullshit to sell tickets and get their commission also the “discount” they offer works out to end up costing you more money instead of going with the actual centre’s prices.
Emulated Nostalgia I also worked for a paintball centre that accepted these tickets. Every single shift without fail we would have very upset customer because of IPG. But the company I worked for knew IPG were lying to customers but still allowed them to sell tickets for their sites because it meant they were getting customers to their site, even if it was under false pretences. It’s put paint balling in such a bad light. If you want to go paint balling go independent!
I hate taking ipg customers at my site, time after time people would ask where the free lunch etc, ipg lies to get the money of them as make false promises and I feel bad for them as they are getting there hopes up for stuff they don't get. But it brings business so it's a tough situation
@@stewartsmyth158 But surely it doesn't offer any return business? Return business is what makes a business succeed long term, and relying on one-time customers that leave unhappy and spread the word of bad business practice related to your business is going to cost you money in the long run..
Jesus guys. How the hell were you harassed from a guy while watching a video? Mentioning sex isn’t harassing. it is not appropriate acronym for work, sure. But grow up with your emotions and bubble. Jesus Christ.
I worked for IPG almost 2 years ago now, this is exactly how I was treated back then and if I don't sell enough tickets not only did I not get any monet but I actually became indebted to them, apparently there is a girl fee of the equipment/stand that they don't tell you about in the interview
Yep I worked there too, most sales people were Aussies and kiwis all travellers 18-22 years old, they don’t tell you you have to pay for the pitch in the shopping centre and some weeks I would lose money working for them. They partnered with global work and travel who would send them kiwis and Aussies as they provided accommodation (which comes out of your sales too) eventually I ended up doing extremely well selling these tickets and did it for about 2 years before finding out it was all a scam. They would use our young minds and make us really excited about selling, would buy us cocaine and ketamine and a lot of us lapped it up, being from the other side of the world we had never tried it before so when they gave it to us we loved it however some staff got really hooked and they would be stuck in the cycle of selling tickets to fund their night on drugs all encouraged by the regional manager who also lived in the house with the sales people They would do things like have boat parties in London and I strictly remember at one boat party T Dawg took this 20 year old Aussie to the bathroom and we went and opened the door and they had lines racked up on a phone and she’s sucking him off!! Had some fun times with other sellers and was a good experience to travel but looking back now I realise how badly they took advantage of us
I'm sure he's under investigation channel 4 will have notified the police or who ever it is responsible for enforcing customer protection laws in the UK
I generally prescribe that just making up random words can get you out of pretty much anything other than an arrest. Most people would rather just let something go rather than try to communicate with someone who only speaks a different language.
Guys, paintball is an amazing sport and most fields aren’t trying to scam you. Please give it a go (at a proper local field) as it deserves to be way more popular than it actually is.
I brought one of these things and went to my local paintball place with them. The guy running it knew it was a scam and offered us a discount. We didn't end up playing, but boy would we go there if we ever do.
I worked for this company back in 2018. While I do apologies for my part in it, you must know that the people they exploit most, are their young international staff they employ. We would have to sell a certain amount of tickets to cover rent to live, and an additional two or three, just to set the stands up to sell them. I almost lost all my money trying to work for the company. They are a disgusting group of people!
I've worked a lot with international students as I live near a University city (like 1/3 of the population is uni students). Those people that move here are doing their best to achieve great things like education or being able just to live out in the world on their own. They are not to blame fully although still, they should try hard to get out of predatory industries. It's not okay to do this, not even for money. although survival is obviously priority which is a reality.
I worked in paintball for a couple of years, IPG booked a lot. We got it in the neck from customers when they got to us and realised the actual costs - IPG just lied through their teeth. My boss and I spoke to IPG when we saw them in tesco with our uniform covered up, we asked them stuff about the paintball fields and whether they had X and Y.... Their answers were always yes. It was all wrong - my manager took his jacket off with the company logo and 'manager' on the back 😂 they went white as sheets!
I recall going to an interview for this company back in 2017. The job pitch was 4 hours long and seemed like a sort of pyramid scheme rather than an actual business.
I have experience with something like that. In college I applied to a company that promised things like very flexible hours you set yourself and be your own boss, you decide how much you can earn, etc. Won't sugar coat it, it was for a door to door salesman position. You could go to as many random neighborhoods as you wanted and knock on doors trying to sell for the company. They really knew what to say to a poor college student, but nearly everything was a bold faced lie. The worst lie, I was told in the interview that I would never be alone (which I thought was odd because they still hadn't told me that it was a door to door sales position) and then my only "training" session I was told I would be going door to door alone. I say training in quotes because they never told me any techniques to sell or anything like that, just how to file any sales I got so I could get paid. I'd say I quit that day, but since I never got a commission and thus never got paid, I'm not sure if I was technically an employee.
I was actually considering reporting this company last September. They came to my university (Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh) during freshers week and advertised their awful "price reduction" deal. They used pressure sales techniques, like saying that they were only available that day. I didn't end up reporting them because I wasn't sure if it was actually illegal, or just immoral. I also wouldn't know how to go about reporting a company for illegal sales practices. Thank you for looking after the British consumers Hugo/Joe!
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Why are you needlessly beeing an unfunny pissant in every single comment you made on this video? Are you the scummy guy from IPG or are you just a boring sociopath?
I went to one of their hiring days/interviews as I was interested in what exactly they offer to the people who stand out there selling tickets. It's utter bullshit you can see from a mile off. They offer you the moon and the stars and if you're in a bad place (like I was) you might actually bc so easily pulled in by them. Making you register as self employed is a HUGE red flag. Luckily I can see through the bullshit of "you could earn £5000 a month", but so many can't. I hope the other people there with my at that interview also saw through it, I'd hate to think they're out there getting scammed. EDIT: That's the Wimbledon office in the video, where I went for the interview too, with T-Dog, who, for all intents and purposes, is as slimy in real life as he is in this video.
Honestly, just watching this video, something about that guy made my skin crawl. I immediately got r8pist vibes off him, he just seems like a gigantic creep.
I bought these tickets from IPG outside Tesco in Surrey. When I got home I realized I could get them cheaper online. It took weeks of emails and phone calls to get a refund. Then they kept £5 ‘admin’ fee.
I used to sell tickets for Ministry of Paintball it was EXACTLY the same, overheard a family I was selling to deciding to put off a rent payment and wait for a benefits payment to come in. I started to talk them out of it the guy in charge moved me to the side and offered them a ‘special’ managers discount. Was horrible.
I was a door to door salesman in Australia and all of these practices are not only encouraged but you’re let go if you don’t use them to force customers into a deal they 9 times out of 10 don’t need it’s a slimy industry that needs reform
No and here's why. firstly, hottest doesn't mean attractive in that context. For example you can say, "hottest new track right now!". From the dictionary hottest can mean: currently popular, fashionable, or in demand. Secondly, the Lara Croft comment is in reference to a Tomb Raider " paintball game zone" that they have on their field, based on a video game/movie where Lara Croft is the protagonist character. Terrance is actually practising the pitch with her. The question about having a boyfriend is called qualifying, as these paintball tickets are primarily purchased as a gift for loved ones. (You can clearly see he has the tickets in front of him at this point). Asking if they have a boyfriend, brother etc is just a way of gathering more information about a prospect, standard practice in sales. Thirdly S.E.X is an acronym used by all businesses that require people to cold stop people on the street, shopping centres etc. LASTLY, even if there was sexual harassment within IPG, thats a workplace problem globally, not a paintball company issue. Some clever editing to make someone look bad, with no solid backing. Disgraceful.
When to an interview here in Australia. Ad said hourly pay and commission. Once in the group interview we asked about this and they said that was wrong and they will change the ad. Checked 1 week later and they ad hasn't been changed. But told us to just sell tickets anyway you can or you'll get fired
Reminds me in college I went for an interview to a company selling home improvements and repairs. They advertised on campus and I was new to the area and needed a job. Turns out it was 1. commissions based 2. DOOR TO DOOR SELLING. I had to walk around unfamiliar neighborhoods, knock on doors and convince people to let me in so I can tell them how much they need to replace their roof, windows, etc 3. I would be alone. I was told in the interview that I would always be with a minimum of 5 people who shared carpooling and that it was completely safe. On my first day my boss asked where my GPS was because I would need one as I would drive to all of the locations by myself, but keep a receipt of gas used so I would get compensation. I'm pretty sure every single thing they said to me in the interview was a lie. Also, I received no training on this. I was suppose to go home and in my own, unpaid time, google what old roofs looked like or various problems so I could sell repairs to customers. I quit after the first day and the person who hired me yelled at me for wasting their time. Maybe don't lie to people straight to their face.
MrDan9400, I'd take the getting fired option, mate. Any employer who disrespects his staff like that will surely dud his workers at every possible turn. Also, you should report that to Fair Work Australia. FWA take a very dim view of that sort of practice.
We actually covered this in Business. Apparently they will keep all of the regularly priced items at the very back of the shop, but still where customers can access them. Then they'll have all of the sale items towards the front. As long as they've always got 'regularly' priced items in their store then it isn't illegal, and they can essentially run continuous sales. There's probably more to it but that's my understanding.
@@rebeccamartinson8913 i saw another consumer reviews show that covered DFS! they picked a couch, waited until the sale on that couch was over, then tried to buy it; shop employees said that they technically could buy it, but they don't stock the normally-priced stuff in the shops, so they'd have to wait for it to be shipped from the warehouse. conveniently, they had an almost identical model on sale that was slightly different (the colour of the couch's feet was grey instead of black or something tiny like that), and they were repeatedly pressured into buying this other model instead of the original. the differences between the models were so small that employees could be like "i'm looking out for you, buy this couch instead, it's much cheaper and basically the same!", but large enough to be technically legal.
Funny thing about DFS sales is they can do it because it's not the same items on sale all year every year. They release new sofas all the time on their 'sale' that look almost the same as the previous years ones with slight differences and a different name. Its weird but it allows them to forever have their sale on
Totally got ripped off by these guys :( they hang around the entrance to my University, near first year accommodation. Was told the ticket discount nonsense and that they were only there that day... Saw them there every day for the rest of Freshers and the next year :/ doesn't look like they're going to change a thing!
Literally same here. Asked if I was a first year, said I was in third and they were like well this is an offer exclusively for freshers. Spent ages talking to the guy and was so unsure as it was still like £70. Went away and I’m so glad I didn’t go back!
same at my university! me and my best friend were walking back from class one day and this guy came up to us, somehow managed to misgender us both and tried to sell it to us as a "cheeky romantic activity, don't you want to shoot your girlfriend sometimes?" and then tried to make us pay him £69.99.
IPG came to my university and sold tickets for 2 years straight saying they were opening a paint balling centre in my city within 2 months which obviously never came about. The closest one is almost 3 hours away and certainly not worth that trip.
I'm pretty sure Sainsbury's does that with it's food. My Nescafe is on deal nearly all of the month apart from a few days - that's how they resolve that issue.
I worked for an energy supplier. Same thing.. Commission only. I, apparently, broke the team record on my first day.. But after I truly learnt the product, I quit. I was lying without knowing it
This happened to me when I tried to book a booth at cameo for my birthday, tried to tell me they had one booth left on a Friday in the middle of the month one of their least busiest day of the week lmao
Best thing to do with those guys is disassemble the paintball markers on the stalls and leave them there....they have no idea how to put them back together :)
A funny lighthearted joke. Going by mr lycetts televised moral gauge, this could be construed as something bordering on sexual harrasment. After all he did reprimand the man for calling blurry aly darling and suggesting she dress as lara croft.
I bought some of these once, I worked for a supermarket and they were selling in the entrance of our store, they told me I was getting an offer because I was staff at the company lol. Never even used the tickets
The shopping center I recognised instantly as I grew up in the area and as far back as I can remember, there have always been paintball sales representatives wandering around on any given day. It's pretty appalling they try to use rush sales tactics on customers, as most are in the middle of shopping and might not know that these representatives could be back the next day, as it's a set-up stall.
Ive seen them at malls here in canada. They were offering coupons to a field whom i'm friends with the owner. The owner of the field had absolutely no idea coupons were being offered....
To be completely fair to T-Dawg, he asked me to dress up as Lara Croft too, and I'm a man. Though I had to remind him that my craigslist ad specifically stated that cosplay would be double price.
The first 42 seconds im confused. She said she bought the tickets but didnt use them. Then she says she brought 10 of her sons friends and it cost her a lot of money. What's going on here? As a viewer am i being scammed?
I got sold IPG tickets once I got mugged off massively, had to pay a booking fee of £15 per person so ended up being £25 per person not including any paintballs which we then had to buy for £9 a pop it was horrendous
I love these videos but this is the first time one has ever applied to me! These pricks are everywhere in NZ they are at UOA consistently and if you google ÍPG' from an Auckland server UOA actually shows up as their third location!
I use to work at a paintball centre, about a year and a half ago, and I felt so bad for people who used IPG - mainly large parties - because they were constantly misled and misinformed of what their tickets actually entitled them too- most common was IPG 100 which was a standard gun, overalls and 100 bullets for the whole day which is basically nothing. They would be told it was 100 per round or they’d get special guns etc or we could do special discounts for them which we couldn’t😂
I worked for a sales company down in Austrlia selling trips and tours to backpackers and students. It was exactly the same deceitful selling strategies used here (but not the sexually harassment thankfully). I'll never trust another salesman, the way they used to speak about their customers was disgusting.
Yeah, I worked here in the Netherlands in a callcentre (for about 2,5 hours, before I quit) that flogged lottery tickets. The deal we were told to sell was "you sign up for three months, and you pay 60 euros per month, and you get a guaranteed win of 200 euros". Now, a quick bit of mental arithmetic and you realise that this would mean the company was losing 20 euros on every single customer. So of course this wasn't real. The real deal involved a 2 year subscription, monthly payments of 80 euros if you forgot to cancel after the first 3 months, and then you'd get the 200 euro prize money guarantee. But by then you'd have paid them more than 1800 euros. We were also told to ask misleading questions to get people to say yes while we were recording, not realising they were agreeing to signing up. I was listening in with a girl calling people, as part of the training, and there were literally 4 or 5 old people in those 2,5 hours who were completely bullied and scammed into saying yes to this deal. When we had our first coffee break, I just left.
Fuck, this exact thing happened to me. They were set up in my university and harassed everyone walking to class. I bought 10 tickets for my boyfriend and his friends so they could paintball for his birthday. I paid about 100 dollars, and never used them because it was such a fuck around to book and too expensive for all the friends to join us. It was so horrible and I spent all this money for nothing. AAAAND they never stop texting you about 'sales' they have on. I had to block all the numbers they text on. Such a fucking waste. I didn't really have the money, but I wanted to do something special for my boyfriend. Still angry about it
I worked for them in Melbourne for a while, it was horrible.... They encouraged you to lie and had about 10 of us living cramped above the office. The pay was purely commission based which meant, no sales = no pay at all. If anyone after buying the tickets, realised that it was a scam and got refunded, that would also come out of your pay. My mental health suffered greatly, as did many of my colleagues who were mostly backpackers that had nowhere else to go
"I bought tickets from them, but never went" 20 seconds later "It cost a fortune because I took ten of his friends and they charged us for the bullets too"
Shady practices are abound. In 2013, I was unfortunately unemployed. I took every application I could. But one was bizarre. CAPITAL ONE street canvasing. Now yep. That's a credit card company you'd think? You'd be wrong! It was a leased office on Maid Marian Way, Nottingham that consisted of a plastic table and a receptionist. A City and Guilds certificate in a cheap photo frame and tesco art prints of New York on the wall. The interview was hysterical. I was flanked by two very serious "fellow applicants" who asked questions and acted like they were in a play. Get this their clients include the British Heart Foundation AND Red Cross. Very noble. Upstairs there are cabinets full ( apparently.) My job was to canvas Nottingham, Victoria Centre mostly. Take bank details and cash if "donated". Take it to a lock up and leave it there where I would receive my wages by the TL at the end of the week. lmao the fat gentleman started getting defensive after the interview when I asked questions and, he "Inferred" I might be a watchdog. I certainly would never lie or pretend, but he got that notion. Always ALWAYS be wary.
It’s like going ice skating or roll blading.. or snow boarding and skiing you pay to get in or for your lift ticket then if you need to rent your equipment it cost extra
I’m a student and I paid £69.99 for a lot of tickets for my 21st birthday, I was never sent the code and spent my birthday in lockdown. I’ve called up and not allowed a refund as it’s been over 14 DAYS
I'm not from the UK, but can you do a chargeback? In my country if you pay by credit card and never receive services you can call the card company and request the charge be reversed. The paintball company can fight it, but usually they don't. Usually the card company takes your side, unless you abuse this, because you're an active customer they'd rather not lose. I don't know the deadline, but it's certainly longer than 14 days. I know about 20 years ago my parents paid a company to build something on the property and when the work hadn't even been started 4-5 months later my mom called the credit card company for a chargeback. Amazingly the construction company called him almost immediately after she hung up with the credit card company and suddenly they were coming over the next day to start construction. They were so busy they couldn't get it done sooner but as soon as a customer complains they can fit you in. I don't know if that has a bigger time window though because it was construction, but that was months later and mom could have fought the charge.
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You should do follow ups on old cases
Joe, could you get a job in The Trump Administration? We could really use your help over here! Plus Trump Loves being on camera, so even if he recognized you he'd still do the interview!
Awful company, but really awful interviewer too.
Wasted opportunity.
Region locked
“You sexually harassed a member of our team, what do you have to say?”
“Ohh... noooo we do that to ALL our employees so its ok!!”
What a nonce
As someone who has worked at and helped to run a Paintball site for 20 years I can't tell you how much these companies piss us off. The number of people that turn up with "vouchers" thinking they'll get a full days entertainment at no extra cost only to find the people they bought them from are in no way partnered with us at all. There have been occasions we have even ran days at a loss due to it being a Childs birthday and we weren't going to ruin their day because of evil rip off merchants like these.
Bless you for doing those things, really. You shouldn’t have to, and aren’t obligated to, but it’s a really kind gesture, I wish industries like these were better regulated honestly.
This is such a shame to see companies like this that ruin paintball for so many people. I have come across these so many times over the years and it is silly just how badly they rip people off. Truth is you can go online and find many great paintball sites that are very reasonably priced and also welcoming for new players. Please don't be put off paintball by this video as it is really an amazing sport which is played all over the world. Just the odd company like this that try to get money wherever they can!!
I am a huge fan
This is true, there's some banging paintball sites here in the UK...that won't rip you off
If this company offered you a sponsorship deal to praise them highly in your next 5 videos for 25k. You'd take it.
Who the hell believes these stall merchants? Doesn't make it right though. Shame on them
Even tho they are completely scamming people
Think of it as a plane ticket
Buy the ticket, snacks, drinks ,extra luggage and everything thing else
You are still paying for all the extras
Se with cinemas as well
but no1 goes after them
Also big fan m8 keep it up
I work at a paintball centre and the amount of trouble IPG caused us is insane. They talk utter bullshit to sell tickets and get their commission also the “discount” they offer works out to end up costing you more money instead of going with the actual centre’s prices.
Wankers. The authorities should get involved after seeing this information.
I fell for this, I bought them and used about 10 of the tickets for my birthday, still very expensive once you get there. Wish I didnt fall for it
Emulated Nostalgia I also worked for a paintball centre that accepted these tickets. Every single shift without fail we would have very upset customer because of IPG. But the company I worked for knew IPG were lying to customers but still allowed them to sell tickets for their sites because it meant they were getting customers to their site, even if it was under false pretences. It’s put paint balling in such a bad light. If you want to go paint balling go independent!
I hate taking ipg customers at my site, time after time people would ask where the free lunch etc, ipg lies to get the money of them as make false promises and I feel bad for them as they are getting there hopes up for stuff they don't get. But it brings business so it's a tough situation
@@stewartsmyth158 But surely it doesn't offer any return business? Return business is what makes a business succeed long term, and relying on one-time customers that leave unhappy and spread the word of bad business practice related to your business is going to cost you money in the long run..
Did....did I just witness sexual harassment in a workplace?
I think S.E.X. actually stands for Sleazy Erotic eXtortion.
@MrJaas69 shutters to think? Please tell me you dont really think that's the phrase
@@shanustheanus what phrase is it supposed to be?
@@kodschiec5614 "i shudder to think"
Jesus guys. How the hell were you harassed from a guy while watching a video? Mentioning sex isn’t harassing. it is not appropriate acronym for work, sure. But grow up with your emotions and bubble. Jesus Christ.
It’s too bad T-Dog didn’t answers Joe’s question about whether he looks cute or not.
I think he looks smashing.
I'm tempted to start a business, do illegal practices and email in just for a look at that revealing lycra in person.
@Josh Rogan Joe, of course!
I'm always anxious for Joe when he goes undercover, I'm scared he'll get yelled at
Joe getting us through
Who’s Joe? You mean Hugo Boss?
I worked for IPG almost 2 years ago now, this is exactly how I was treated back then and if I don't sell enough tickets not only did I not get any monet but I actually became indebted to them, apparently there is a girl fee of the equipment/stand that they don't tell you about in the interview
So they even missell interviews?
Yep I worked there too, most sales people were Aussies and kiwis all travellers 18-22 years old, they don’t tell you you have to pay for the pitch in the shopping centre and some weeks I would lose money working for them.
They partnered with global work and travel who would send them kiwis and Aussies as they provided accommodation (which comes out of your sales too) eventually I ended up doing extremely well selling these tickets and did it for about 2 years before finding out it was all a scam. They would use our young minds and make us really excited about selling, would buy us cocaine and ketamine and a lot of us lapped it up, being from the other side of the world we had never tried it before so when they gave it to us we loved it however some staff got really hooked and they would be stuck in the cycle of selling tickets to fund their night on drugs all encouraged by the regional manager who also lived in the house with the sales people
They would do things like have boat parties in London and I strictly remember at one boat party T Dawg took this 20 year old Aussie to the bathroom and we went and opened the door and they had lines racked up on a phone and she’s sucking him off!! Had some fun times with other sellers and was a good experience to travel but looking back now I realise how badly they took advantage of us
100% he didn't change a thing.
The website still says tickets are £35
Well hopefully less people will be as gullible now. And hopefully the employees sue for back payed wages
I'm sure he's under investigation channel 4 will have notified the police or who ever it is responsible for enforcing customer protection laws in the UK
Yeah he did. Stop lying.
No way has a paintball company changed anything
Joe Lycett is a national treasure that must be protected at all times.
I think you mean hugo boss
Archer Green I was gonna say that.
Darryl Hamlin such a sad moment
@Monty Mole The best of Englishness.*
@Monty Mole Who?
I honestly hate seeing these guys in the shopping centre. They're so pushy, even if you show no interest at all
Considering they're only paid for commission I can't blame them, i blame those irresponsible employers
You should see me in a nightclub
Headphones = a licence to ignore.
I generally prescribe that just making up random words can get you out of pretty much anything other than an arrest. Most people would rather just let something go rather than try to communicate with someone who only speaks a different language.
"they're expecting to Jowen. But I'm Joe in. Joe in disguise.
Joe you simply HAVE to tell us where these restaurants are.
Guys, paintball is an amazing sport and most fields aren’t trying to scam you. Please give it a go (at a proper local field) as it deserves to be way more popular than it actually is.
I brought one of these things and went to my local paintball place with them. The guy running it knew it was a scam and offered us a discount.
We didn't end up playing, but boy would we go there if we ever do.
Are you T Dog?
Nope, just a player who wants the paintball to grow.
Possible scam comment. Exercise caution
Someone owns a paintball business 🤣🤣🤣
I worked for this company back in 2018. While I do apologies for my part in it, you must know that the people they exploit most, are their young international staff they employ.
We would have to sell a certain amount of tickets to cover rent to live, and an additional two or three, just to set the stands up to sell them.
I almost lost all my money trying to work for the company. They are a disgusting group of people!
I've worked a lot with international students as I live near a University city (like 1/3 of the population is uni students). Those people that move here are doing their best to achieve great things like education or being able just to live out in the world on their own. They are not to blame fully although still, they should try hard to get out of predatory industries. It's not okay to do this, not even for money. although survival is obviously priority which is a reality.
I worked in paintball for a couple of years, IPG booked a lot. We got it in the neck from customers when they got to us and realised the actual costs - IPG just lied through their teeth.
My boss and I spoke to IPG when we saw them in tesco with our uniform covered up, we asked them stuff about the paintball fields and whether they had X and Y.... Their answers were always yes. It was all wrong - my manager took his jacket off with the company logo and 'manager' on the back 😂 they went white as sheets!
I love how Hugo dresses. His wardrobe is so outrageous but his confidence means he pulls it off so well
He tries so hard to dress things right. In the end it doesnt even matter
@@johnsmith-wx5fb He's gone so far to screw paintball. But in the end, it doesn't even matter.
I recall going to an interview for this company back in 2017. The job pitch was 4 hours long and seemed like a sort of pyramid scheme rather than an actual business.
I have experience with something like that. In college I applied to a company that promised things like very flexible hours you set yourself and be your own boss, you decide how much you can earn, etc. Won't sugar coat it, it was for a door to door salesman position. You could go to as many random neighborhoods as you wanted and knock on doors trying to sell for the company. They really knew what to say to a poor college student, but nearly everything was a bold faced lie. The worst lie, I was told in the interview that I would never be alone (which I thought was odd because they still hadn't told me that it was a door to door sales position) and then my only "training" session I was told I would be going door to door alone. I say training in quotes because they never told me any techniques to sell or anything like that, just how to file any sales I got so I could get paid. I'd say I quit that day, but since I never got a commission and thus never got paid, I'm not sure if I was technically an employee.
'That is alcoholic!' The only way that counts.
I was actually considering reporting this company last September. They came to my university (Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh) during freshers week and advertised their awful "price reduction" deal. They used pressure sales techniques, like saying that they were only available that day. I didn't end up reporting them because I wasn't sure if it was actually illegal, or just immoral. I also wouldn't know how to go about reporting a company for illegal sales practices. Thank you for looking after the British consumers Hugo/Joe!
That's a bit of a nothing comment then. You saw them.
You thought about doing something.
But you didnt do anything.
Weeeeel oooookaaaaay theeeeen😂
I am sure the police has instructions on their website on how to make a report.
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Why are you needlessly beeing an unfunny pissant in every single comment you made on this video? Are you the scummy guy from IPG or are you just a boring sociopath?
I went to one of their hiring days/interviews as I was interested in what exactly they offer to the people who stand out there selling tickets. It's utter bullshit you can see from a mile off. They offer you the moon and the stars and if you're in a bad place (like I was) you might actually bc so easily pulled in by them. Making you register as self employed is a HUGE red flag. Luckily I can see through the bullshit of "you could earn £5000 a month", but so many can't. I hope the other people there with my at that interview also saw through it, I'd hate to think they're out there getting scammed.
EDIT: That's the Wimbledon office in the video, where I went for the interview too, with T-Dog, who, for all intents and purposes, is as slimy in real life as he is in this video.
You bum T-Dawg or what?
@@maselm What's the matter with you dude?
5 grand a month 🤣🤣🤣 probably more commission than someone working in Rolex store
Honestly, just watching this video, something about that guy made my skin crawl.
I immediately got r8pist vibes off him, he just seems like a gigantic creep.
@@petrolhead0387 He's exactly the same in person, only worse as you're within breathing distance of him.
Joe is the hero we never knew we needed
I bought these tickets from IPG outside Tesco in Surrey. When I got home I realized I could get them cheaper online. It took weeks of emails and phone calls to get a refund. Then they kept £5 ‘admin’ fee.
Was it the Tesco in leatherhead because that where I got ripped off
Has nobody reported the company to Action Fraud or Trading standards about this and getting them shutdown for malpractice?
This is the uk bro , we dont do shit lol
@@SILVERSTRIPE_ we should take to the streets and protest.
@@pauleveritt942 dramatic
Trading standards do exactly nil work unless they get pressured by big designer companies.
I used to sell tickets for Ministry of Paintball it was EXACTLY the same, overheard a family I was selling to deciding to put off a rent payment and wait for a benefits payment to come in. I started to talk them out of it the guy in charge moved me to the side and offered them a ‘special’ managers discount. Was horrible.
Highly convenient but deeply fake apothecrical story alert!!!
Are you trying to say hypothetical? 😂
@@Chrisroygbiv 😕😂😂😂😂 no.
john smith you’re trying to say apocryphal, not apothecrical
@@lemmadogman4924 yeah i knew i spelt it wrong. So he was half right , i was "trying" to write something
I was a door to door salesman in Australia and all of these practices are not only encouraged but you’re let go if you don’t use them to force customers into a deal they 9 times out of 10 don’t need it’s a slimy industry that needs reform
It's an industry that is not needed. If it disappeared nothing of value would be lost.
Joes first failure? that statement at the end was a nothing, investigate what his own actions?
@Richard Carrie Or change your company name. Too often bad companies just rebrand and get away with the same scam all over again.
Everyone that watches this video now knows that the high pressure ticket sellers on the street are 100% a scam and that should make their jobs harder
What a creep that dude is .. I felt sick when he said that 🤮
that's sexual harassment right there!!! 2:00
Luke no it isn’t. Idiot.
Yes, yes it is.
@@thecat2587 yes it absolutely is
No and here's why. firstly, hottest doesn't mean attractive in that context. For example you can say, "hottest new track right now!". From the dictionary hottest can mean: currently popular, fashionable, or in demand. Secondly, the Lara Croft comment is in reference to a Tomb Raider " paintball game zone" that they have on their field, based on a video game/movie where Lara Croft is the protagonist character. Terrance is actually practising the pitch with her. The question about having a boyfriend is called qualifying, as these paintball tickets are primarily purchased as a gift for loved ones. (You can clearly see he has the tickets in front of him at this point). Asking if they have a boyfriend, brother etc is just a way of gathering more information about a prospect, standard practice in sales. Thirdly S.E.X is an acronym used by all businesses that require people to cold stop people on the street, shopping centres etc. LASTLY, even if there was sexual harassment within IPG, thats a workplace problem globally, not a paintball company issue. Some clever editing to make someone look bad, with no solid backing. Disgraceful.
@@thomasmarsh1916 can you see my comments?
When to an interview here in Australia. Ad said hourly pay and commission. Once in the group interview we asked about this and they said that was wrong and they will change the ad. Checked 1 week later and they ad hasn't been changed. But told us to just sell tickets anyway you can or you'll get fired
Reminds me in college I went for an interview to a company selling home improvements and repairs. They advertised on campus and I was new to the area and needed a job. Turns out it was 1. commissions based 2. DOOR TO DOOR SELLING. I had to walk around unfamiliar neighborhoods, knock on doors and convince people to let me in so I can tell them how much they need to replace their roof, windows, etc 3. I would be alone. I was told in the interview that I would always be with a minimum of 5 people who shared carpooling and that it was completely safe. On my first day my boss asked where my GPS was because I would need one as I would drive to all of the locations by myself, but keep a receipt of gas used so I would get compensation.
I'm pretty sure every single thing they said to me in the interview was a lie. Also, I received no training on this. I was suppose to go home and in my own, unpaid time, google what old roofs looked like or various problems so I could sell repairs to customers. I quit after the first day and the person who hired me yelled at me for wasting their time. Maybe don't lie to people straight to their face.
MrDan9400, I'd take the getting fired option, mate. Any employer who disrespects his staff like that will surely dud his workers at every possible turn. Also, you should report that to Fair Work Australia. FWA take a very dim view of that sort of practice.
I hope the company goes bankrupt & the owners attempt of starting another company fails. It sounds very much like daylight robbery
7:48 “can i call you mista?”
It all makes so much sense now
I like the lesbian flag Budweiser cup on the desk.
There's a lesbian flag?😕
@@johnsmith-wx5fb yeah, that's the colours of the new one
Unfortunately, I don't think he likes lesbians for the right reason...
I just love Joe and Allison so much ! I really hope there are still so many videos like this coming !
DFS must be breaking the rules then because that sale is ALWAYS on😂
Wait.. DFS is having a sale? WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME
We actually covered this in Business. Apparently they will keep all of the regularly priced items at the very back of the shop, but still where customers can access them. Then they'll have all of the sale items towards the front. As long as they've always got 'regularly' priced items in their store then it isn't illegal, and they can essentially run continuous sales. There's probably more to it but that's my understanding.
@@rebeccamartinson8913 i saw another consumer reviews show that covered DFS! they picked a couch, waited until the sale on that couch was over, then tried to buy it; shop employees said that they technically could buy it, but they don't stock the normally-priced stuff in the shops, so they'd have to wait for it to be shipped from the warehouse. conveniently, they had an almost identical model on sale that was slightly different (the colour of the couch's feet was grey instead of black or something tiny like that), and they were repeatedly pressured into buying this other model instead of the original. the differences between the models were so small that employees could be like "i'm looking out for you, buy this couch instead, it's much cheaper and basically the same!", but large enough to be technically legal.
Funny thing about DFS sales is they can do it because it's not the same items on sale all year every year. They release new sofas all the time on their 'sale' that look almost the same as the previous years ones with slight differences and a different name. Its weird but it allows them to forever have their sale on
Hugo Boss VS Sleazy Boss
T-Dog is literally Ricky Gervais in The Office...
Richard Carrie and you’re a sad internet warrior 😂
Totally got ripped off by these guys :( they hang around the entrance to my University, near first year accommodation. Was told the ticket discount nonsense and that they were only there that day... Saw them there every day for the rest of Freshers and the next year :/ doesn't look like they're going to change a thing!
Literally same here. They hang around at my Uni trying to sell tickets every Wednesday during semester. Thankfully I never bought any.
Literally same here. Asked if I was a first year, said I was in third and they were like well this is an offer exclusively for freshers. Spent ages talking to the guy and was so unsure as it was still like £70. Went away and I’m so glad I didn’t go back!
@@hollybowden9891 You dodged a bullet matey 👍
same at my university! me and my best friend were walking back from class one day and this guy came up to us, somehow managed to misgender us both and tried to sell it to us as a "cheeky romantic activity, don't you want to shoot your girlfriend sometimes?" and then tried to make us pay him £69.99.
IPG came to my university and sold tickets for 2 years straight saying they were opening a paint balling centre in my city within 2 months which obviously never came about. The closest one is almost 3 hours away and certainly not worth that trip.
Joe has such nice legs wtf 5:28
I just looked at his thighs and I didn't hear what he said at all at one point.
9:06
A lot of big clothes company’s do this also, they say an items on sale and put a fake original price, then the sale price is just the normal price
I'm pretty sure Sainsbury's does that with it's food. My Nescafe is on deal nearly all of the month apart from a few days - that's how they resolve that issue.
It happens with everything!
Your mums Favourite sports direct. How are they still getting away with it?
That happened with TJ Maxx and Marshalls here. They got penalized and sent out gift cards as part of the suit.
I worked for an energy supplier. Same thing.. Commission only. I, apparently, broke the team record on my first day.. But after I truly learnt the product, I quit. I was lying without knowing it
Allison is absolutely lovely her energy is infectious
Her giggles just did me in.
This happened to me when I tried to book a booth at cameo for my birthday, tried to tell me they had one booth left on a Friday in the middle of the month one of their least busiest day of the week lmao
Best thing to do with those guys is disassemble the paintball markers on the stalls and leave them there....they have no idea how to put them back together :)
If I started a new job and he was the manager, I’d be walking straight out the door. What a sleaze
Ruthless. How is he sleazy? Or are you a little fragile?
@@thecat2587 Calling 'Aly' the 'hottest recruiter ever' isn't sleazy to you? Jeez.
@@Markazzo124 it's a compliment
john smith I’d want my boss to compliment my skills not how I look
@@faithmartin251 so when you dress to look nice for work, who exactly are you doing it for? And please dont say yourself.
Asking for a refund as didn't know this and was told the same haven't used my tickets yet ..... Let's see 🙄👀
Issue a chargeback if you need to.
I was also told this. I asked for refund for COVID but they said no as can go next year.....
100% you won’t get a refund, good luck tho!
@@jtbwilliams Thanks I'll issue a charge back :)
I went for a refund after I phoned and was told of all the extra charges. Apparently refunds can only be made 24hrs after purchase. scam artists
"The Lara croft thing is what we do with all our staff. And deffo not me scratching off something on my bucket list I've had since PlayStation 1."
I bet Alison wouldn't say no to a young man's organ. For that matter, neither would Joe
I hate the organ, and anyway, the accordion is so much more portable.
Robert Schwartz best reply ever omd
A funny lighthearted joke. Going by mr lycetts televised moral gauge, this could be construed as something bordering on sexual harrasment. After all he did reprimand the man for calling blurry aly darling and suggesting she dress as lara croft.
Oooh, thats sexist! 😁
@@stugw4839 Yes, I imagine you woo all the ladies with that kind of talk.
I literally almost signed up for this when it was outside my student union. Good thing I dodged that bullet. 😂
I was actually scammed by these guys way back in 2017 on my first week of uni.
Nice to see they're still doing the exact same thing 3 years later
Nice?!?!?😮 you're part of the problem
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Huh?!
I'm hoping you meant that I was a victim of the issue, not what your message actually reads
@@bigbalticbox yes you were the victim of the issue
Same 3 years later lmao
I bought some of these once, I worked for a supermarket and they were selling in the entrance of our store, they told me I was getting an offer because I was staff at the company lol. Never even used the tickets
Got money to burn haven't you. Paying you too well at sainsburys
@@kaziflows2936 Yeah I was just showing off, at least I can always sell the tickets if I fancy a new car or house
@@KurtisBlack Yeah I've got some sea view property in Leeds if you're interested. Special discount because you're a key worker
Do one on BBC TV licence please!!
The shopping center I recognised instantly as I grew up in the area and as far back as I can remember, there have always been paintball sales representatives wandering around on any given day. It's pretty appalling they try to use rush sales tactics on customers, as most are in the middle of shopping and might not know that these representatives could be back the next day, as it's a set-up stall.
Mr. Motivator is still amazingly in shape for a 66 year old, damn
This happened to me in Australia, was flipping frustrating!
How, when everything is filmed, can companies pretend nothing is going on.
Ive seen them at malls here in canada. They were offering coupons to a field whom i'm friends with the owner. The owner of the field had absolutely no idea coupons were being offered....
As a regular paintballer, I can't stand ipg
haha, !!! Jowen Disguies !!! Absolutely made my day.
Is that the whitgift centre in Croydon ?
The comedy, the drama, this one is a blast!
Hugo Boss does amazing work, but I struggle to watch these because the second-hand embarrassment of exposing scammers makes me cringe.
Do love the bud light cups handed out at pride being present during the meeting at 2:15
To be completely fair to T-Dawg, he asked me to dress up as Lara Croft too, and I'm a man. Though I had to remind him that my craigslist ad specifically stated that cosplay would be double price.
Just checked their website and nothing has changed
The first 42 seconds im confused. She said she bought the tickets but didnt use them. Then she says she brought 10 of her sons friends and it cost her a lot of money. What's going on here? As a viewer am i being scammed?
I did this when I was 9 years old and it was exactly the same!!! They really need to fix this! . that's 16 years ago.
Idk why but I creased when she called paint balls bullets😬 0:29
How've I only just seen this?
As a skinny bullied kid, Mr motivator actually changed my life. Love this ♥️
All his undercover people are related to big foot, always blurry
I got sold IPG tickets once I got mugged off massively, had to pay a booking fee of £15 per person so ended up being £25 per person not including any paintballs which we then had to buy for £9 a pop it was horrendous
😂😂😂😂😂👋 why on earth would you even stop and talk to these dumb dumbs?
I love these videos but this is the first time one has ever applied to me! These pricks are everywhere in NZ they are at UOA consistently and if you google ÍPG' from an Auckland server UOA actually shows up as their third location!
Still says £35 on their website
On behalf of all paintball players, thank you! IPG give our sport such a bad name.
Your names pretty bad too😂😬
That’s one thing Joe never seems to take into account, he can’t go under cover because HE’S ON THE TELEVISION!
hugo boss
I was curious and went on their website.. the £35 thing is still on there! Trying to buy a ticket isn't very straightforward..
How old is mr motivator now? Seems like hes been around forever.
I use to work at a paintball centre, about a year and a half ago, and I felt so bad for people who used IPG - mainly large parties - because they were constantly misled and misinformed of what their tickets actually entitled them too- most common was IPG 100 which was a standard gun, overalls and 100 bullets for the whole day which is basically nothing. They would be told it was 100 per round or they’d get special guns etc or we could do special discounts for them which we couldn’t😂
Alison is great, I really like her, she's just naturally warm and funny.
Perfect review, we won’t be using IPG on our company days out anymore
Gee! And after I put ALL my trust in hawkers who sell out of shopping mall kiosks!
I worked for a sales company down in Austrlia selling trips and tours to backpackers and students. It was exactly the same deceitful selling strategies used here (but not the sexually harassment thankfully). I'll never trust another salesman, the way they used to speak about their customers was disgusting.
Yeah, I worked here in the Netherlands in a callcentre (for about 2,5 hours, before I quit) that flogged lottery tickets. The deal we were told to sell was "you sign up for three months, and you pay 60 euros per month, and you get a guaranteed win of 200 euros". Now, a quick bit of mental arithmetic and you realise that this would mean the company was losing 20 euros on every single customer.
So of course this wasn't real. The real deal involved a 2 year subscription, monthly payments of 80 euros if you forgot to cancel after the first 3 months, and then you'd get the 200 euro prize money guarantee. But by then you'd have paid them more than 1800 euros. We were also told to ask misleading questions to get people to say yes while we were recording, not realising they were agreeing to signing up. I was listening in with a girl calling people, as part of the training, and there were literally 4 or 5 old people in those 2,5 hours who were completely bullied and scammed into saying yes to this deal. When we had our first coffee break, I just left.
I love joe sm
Don’t you mean Hugo Boss?
Just looked at the Vienna location. Loads of good reviews. Seems they have improved.
Fuck, this exact thing happened to me. They were set up in my university and harassed everyone walking to class. I bought 10 tickets for my boyfriend and his friends so they could paintball for his birthday. I paid about 100 dollars, and never used them because it was such a fuck around to book and too expensive for all the friends to join us. It was so horrible and I spent all this money for nothing. AAAAND they never stop texting you about 'sales' they have on. I had to block all the numbers they text on. Such a fucking waste. I didn't really have the money, but I wanted to do something special for my boyfriend. Still angry about it
i just got scammed and the police believed them. it happened at Scarborough town center Canada by the name of optimum paintball.
IPG rebranded as Optimum. Same shady practices, same scammy schemes, same backpacking staff from UK. They are here in Vancouver as well.
Still £35 on the website 😂😂 bunch on muppets
That’s the point - it’s £35 on the website, therefore the tickets are at a ‘discount’
I worked for them in Melbourne for a while, it was horrible.... They encouraged you to lie and had about 10 of us living cramped above the office. The pay was purely commission based which meant, no sales = no pay at all. If anyone after buying the tickets, realised that it was a scam and got refunded, that would also come out of your pay. My mental health suffered greatly, as did many of my colleagues who were mostly backpackers that had nowhere else to go
Smelly backpackers? No one forced em did they? They weren't forced to backpack
More of these please
"I bought tickets from them, but never went"
20 seconds later
"It cost a fortune because I took ten of his friends and they charged us for the bullets too"
OMG I think that was the guy who tried to sell us paintball tickets in freshers week
'tdog' is disgustingly inappropriate. Not at all professional. It's pretty clear why he's not in a better job..
He Co owns the company. Briefly worked there a while ago and they wouldn't shut up about how much money they made
@@airsofthughes9165 with a name like airsoft you're bang at it yourself!!!!!. EXPLAIN YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY!?!
Shady practices are abound. In 2013, I was unfortunately unemployed. I took every application I could. But one was bizarre. CAPITAL ONE street canvasing. Now yep. That's a credit card company you'd think?
You'd be wrong! It was a leased office on Maid Marian Way, Nottingham that consisted of a plastic table and a receptionist. A City and Guilds certificate in a cheap photo frame and tesco art prints of New York on the wall.
The interview was hysterical. I was flanked by two very serious "fellow applicants" who asked questions and acted like they were in a play.
Get this their clients include the British Heart Foundation AND Red Cross. Very noble. Upstairs there are cabinets full ( apparently.) My job was to canvas Nottingham, Victoria Centre mostly. Take bank details and cash if "donated". Take it to a lock up and leave it there where I would receive my wages by the TL at the end of the week.
lmao the fat gentleman started getting defensive after the interview when I asked questions and, he "Inferred" I might be a watchdog. I certainly would never lie or pretend, but he got that notion.
Always ALWAYS be wary.
I love these videos but Joe really needs to work on his confrontations, they're a bit pathetic
It’s like going ice skating or roll blading.. or snow boarding and skiing you pay to get in or for your lift ticket then if you need to rent your equipment it cost extra
what bout the old DFS sale ending monday?
I’m a student and I paid £69.99 for a lot of tickets for my 21st birthday, I was never sent the code and spent my birthday in lockdown. I’ve called up and not allowed a refund as it’s been over 14 DAYS
I'm not from the UK, but can you do a chargeback? In my country if you pay by credit card and never receive services you can call the card company and request the charge be reversed. The paintball company can fight it, but usually they don't. Usually the card company takes your side, unless you abuse this, because you're an active customer they'd rather not lose. I don't know the deadline, but it's certainly longer than 14 days.
I know about 20 years ago my parents paid a company to build something on the property and when the work hadn't even been started 4-5 months later my mom called the credit card company for a chargeback. Amazingly the construction company called him almost immediately after she hung up with the credit card company and suddenly they were coming over the next day to start construction. They were so busy they couldn't get it done sooner but as soon as a customer complains they can fit you in. I don't know if that has a bigger time window though because it was construction, but that was months later and mom could have fought the charge.
Keep asking for a refund! Speak to citizans advice about your consumer rights
Richard Widenbar: I’m getting my dad to call up Monday but they’re not good at answering their phone! I’m too passive to do it myself
They actually came to my freshers event at uni so they’re targeting poor ass young students
@@eveenorth6125 That sucks. I hope you can get your money back.