[Responsibility2nd]

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“They have mastered the ability to get their hands into people’s pockets and to take out every last dollar,” says Ross A. Klein, a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, who has closely studied the cruise ship industry. “They can almost give a cabin away for free and still make a profit.”

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I’m reading this, and I’m wondering am I reading about the cruise industry or the gaming industry in Vegas?

[cgbg]

One little tidbit on cruise scams that supports the general tone of the article:

Cruise lines will take American tourists in the Caribbean and Mexico to a location on-shore where they can buy “Cuban cigars”.

However, the cigars are almost always fakes—and it sounds like the cruise lines and the vendor share the profits from the shore visit.

[Carl Vehse]

"They have mastered the ability to get their hands into people’s pockets and to take out every last dollar"... I’m reading this, and I’m wondering am I reading about the cruise industry or the gaming industry in Vegas?"

Or organized crime... or the IRS.

[HIDEK6]

I was thinking it sounds like what strip clubs do.