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[[File:used-car-salesman 7541.gif|frame|Is this the face of a man who would lie to you?]]
{{quote|''Vimes looked into the grinning, cadaverous face of Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler, purveyor of absolutely anything that could be'' ''[[Coat Full of Contraband|sold hurriedly from an open suitcase in a busy street]]'' ''and was guaranteed to have'' ''[[Fell Off the Back of a Truck|fallen off the back of an oxcart.]]''
|''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]''}}
▲{{quote|''Vimes looked into the grinning, cadaverous face of Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler, purveyor of absolutely anything that could be'' ''[[Coat Full of Contraband|sold hurriedly from an open suitcase in a busy street]]'' ''and was guaranteed to have'' ''[[Fell Off the Back of a Truck|fallen off the back of an oxcart.]]''|''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]''}}
You're in a sticky situation; you need to get something and there doesn't seem to be a legal way of getting it. (It could be banned, rationed, from overseas or possibly just made in extremely limited quantities). If you're unlucky, you'll have to visit [[Trope Namer|Honest John's Dealership.]]
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Completely straight examples tend not to last long in [[Real Life]], but we've probably all met one at least once. They're called "gray market salesmen," in business/econ terms.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The '''N'''ight'''M'''are '''E'''nterprises/Holy Nightmare salesman in ''[[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]''. Dedede gave him nearly 100 episodes worth of payback when they finally meet personally.
** In the 4kids dub he's like a car salesman, while the original version is based on a polite and humble Japanese salesman—but the roles are just about the same.
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* ''[[Asterix]] and the Banquet'' (''Le Tour de Gaule d'Astérix'') has a <s>car</s> chariot dealer selling Asterix and Obelix a shiny, sparkling, good-as-new chariot pulled by a strong black stallion... only problem is, the carriage breaks with the first stone in the road, and the strong black stallion turns out to be an old, battered white horse painted with black dye...
** There's also a Phoenician recurring character, Ekonomikrisis, who calls his slaves "partners with the right to row". He's just a humble partner ''without'' the right to row, of course.
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* Peter occasionally takes this role in ''[[BC|B.C.]]''
* Elvis Zimmerman in ''[[Piranha Club]]'' is one of them. Sid, too, who runs a shady real estate business.
* Honest Abdul in ''[[Beau Peep]]'',
* In ''Alan Ford'', the never-seen Bing (and perhaps his brother) is such a dealer. Sir Oliver is only ever seen conducting business with him over the phone, and then not buying but selling stuff fallen from the back of… well, everyone.
* One issue of Marvel's ''Transformers'' series had Big Steve, a slimy dealer who used every dirty trick in the book.
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* Disney's ''[[Pinocchio]]'' gave us the [[Trope Namer|actual Honest John]] who was a fox that cheated Pinocchio on several occasions.
* The Merchant at the beginning of the [[Disney Animated Canon]] ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.
* Similarly, in the Disney ''[[Hercules (1997 film)
* ''[[An American Tail]]'' actually ''has'' a character named Honest John. However, he is more of a [[Loveable Rogue]] politician trying to get people to vote for him. Including ''dead'' people.
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