I just got out of my car when two dudes stop by me in an SUV asking if I want a free home theater system. Apparently, he had an extra one?!?! I said "No, thank you" and told him that I think this is kinda shady! He gave me some weird explanation which I couldn't understand and didn't really care to listen to. I wonder if somebody else ended up taking it from him.
A guy stopped me in the parking lot today and asked if I want a free home theater system *CONFIRMED IT'S A SCAM*
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pillage2001
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Originally posted by: Argo
It's my personal experience that people don't go around giving away free home theater system
Unless they stole it and trying to destroy the evidence??
BrunoPuntzJones
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Was walking into a WalMart and some guy pulls up in an old crappy corsica or something. Asked if I wanted to buy a new notebook. He looks at the box and starts rattling off the specs. Said no thanks. He said come on, $400 dollars! Gave him that big eyed look like he was crazy. He said how about $300? Just kept saying nope and walking. He eventually came down to $30 and said forget it and walked in the other door so he couldn't follow. Watched to see if he went back towards my car, but he drove off.
Guy was getting desperate to get rid of it.
Guy was getting desperate to get rid of it.
BrunoPuntzJones
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Originally posted by: NutBucket
$30????? Prolly just a weighted box
Shrinkwrapped. I didn't ask to look at it or anything to see if it was legit, didn't really care.
hdeck
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HAHAHA same thing happened to me earlier this month! This dude wanted to "give" me $3,000 surround sound speakers b/c "the idiots in shipping sent double the order i was delivering"...i was like "sure i'll take them for free" but then he pulled around and asked how much i would give him for them...bastard got my hopes up!
Wow, a lot of people around here get heckled don't they? I can't think of any time this has happened to me, yet.
That white van crap happened to me about 2 months ago. I just laughed in the guy's face because I had prior knowledge about the scam from my readings on the Internet. He tried to be so convincing by showing me an ad from a printed magazine and how the speakers originally retailed for over $1,000. I can't believe people make their living by being such a scumbag and trying to trick people. I guess I couldn't lie to hundreds of people each day like these people do. If someone finally purchased one of the products from me, I'd probably crack up in the purchaser's face and call them a dummy.
this reminds me of a time i got asked if I wanted a $5 replacement plan on a $5 keyboard that I bought.
i've probably been asked if i want to buy a home theatre system 4 times in the past couple of years. i got one approaching me at the bank, at a store, and most recently at my school parking lot. they're everywhere.
There is a guy in Oakland California that gave someone that I met last week a free T.V. at a garage sale because she paid $ 15 for a monitor. Inside the T.V., which apparently was a nice enough one to keep, was a GPS module, which in turn located her residence. While they ransacked her house her COP b/f came home and busted them in the act. Two sorry guys gone to the big house! Nothing is free!
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