After 10 years in Paris, we finally got SCAMMED

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

I'm not proud to say it, but we got scammed pretty hard. Here's the full story.

Mentioned at the end of the episode: Our walking tours of Paris: http://www.theearfultower.com/tours

Music by Pres Maxson.

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0:00.0	After 10 years living in Paris, we finally got scammed and we got scammed good, baby.
0:05.7	We are not above it.
0:07.5	So this episode, we're going to tell you about how a plumber absolutely just got us.
0:14.3	Oh, he was good.
0:15.5	He got us so good.
0:17.0	He got us so good and we're really actually quite sad about it and feel a bit treachery.
0:21.3	Yeah, but I can't help with love.
0:23.0	No, that's our only strategy.
0:24.9	And we're sharing this kind of partly as a...
0:27.9	This is therapy.
0:29.2	This is therapy for us.
0:30.5	A warning for anyone needing plumbing help in Paris.
0:34.0	And hopefully...
0:34.6	Do we have a solution?
0:35.4	I don't know.
0:36.7	Yeah, don't do what we do.
0:38.6	And look, I'm not going to lie, a bit of pity.
0:41.4	Could use a little pity.
0:42.3	I'm like George Costanza from so forth.
0:43.9	Yeah, chuck us some.
0:44.8	Chuck us some pity.
0:45.8	Yeah, this way we need it.
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