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White Van Speaker sales strike again!!!!

Lithium381

Lithium381

Lifer
OMG you will not beleive this, a couple weeks ago, they tried to scam me....i told them to screw themselves
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now my friend tells me about how he just got some speakers off a guy in a parking lot for like 200 bucks.........same "digital pro audio" as the rest......oh man, i'll never let him live this one down.....buahahaha
 
Doesn't everyone know this scam yet...wow...

its ridiculus how many people get hit by this


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but i guess its not always that bad...my parents, WAY back in the day, bought their first VCR out of some guys trunk at a rest area in Jersey and that was good quality i think...lasted a long time
 
I was in Ft. Lauderdale on business a couple of months ago... as I was getting back in my car at a gas station, I hear "Hey man, wanna buy some speakers?"!!
 
HOLY !! this is a scam? i've never heard of it, but now that i read the threads, this happened to me at blockbuster a year or so ago!!! they were driving a White Expedition tho. SCAM!!!1, sounded bogus, glad i was in a hurry!! 😛
 
"Scam" is a relative term here.

I mean, your friend traded money for real speakers that make real sound, right? So it's not like he was scammed. He was just led to believe that the speakers were of *cough* slightly higher quality than they really are.
 
Anyone who knows anything about car audio knows that you get what you pay for. You can't get good "DEALS" in parking lots. You have to go through a real dealer or have a friend hook you up with their old system. The suckers deserve to lose their cash to the scam artists......maybe it'll make em smarter. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
"Scam" is a relative term here.

I mean, your friend traded money for real speakers that make real sound, right? So it's not like he was scammed. He was just led to believe that the speakers were of *cough* slightly higher quality than they really are.
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It's a scam in the sense that they lie about who they are, what they are doing, and everything else to make the sale. It wouldn't be a scam if the guys came up and say "hey, i have some speakers I am willing to sell for blah". And the price was set. Any lying during the transaction, to me, is scamming.
 
Originally posted by: LordThing
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
"Scam" is a relative term here.

I mean, your friend traded money for real speakers that make real sound, right? So it's not like he was scammed. He was just led to believe that the speakers were of *cough* slightly higher quality than they really are.
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It's a scam in the sense that they lie about who they are, what they are doing, and everything else to make the sale. It wouldn't be a scam if the guys came up and say "hey, i have some speakers I am willing to sell for blah". And the price was set. Any lying during the transaction, to me, is scamming.
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what do they lie about?
 
Originally posted by: guapo337
Originally posted by: LordThing
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
"Scam" is a relative term here.

I mean, your friend traded money for real speakers that make real sound, right? So it's not like he was scammed. He was just led to believe that the speakers were of *cough* slightly higher quality than they really are.
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It's a scam in the sense that they lie about who they are, what they are doing, and everything else to make the sale. It wouldn't be a scam if the guys came up and say "hey, i have some speakers I am willing to sell for blah". And the price was set. Any lying during the transaction, to me, is scamming.
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what do they lie about?
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They generally lie about:

Where they got the speakers from
The quality of the speakers
 
My buddy was almost taken by these guys too. We stopped at a plaza so I could run in and mail something at the post office. I come out and he's running to the nearest bank machine and yells for me to come over. He tells me some story about a lady who had extra speakers from an order and was charging only 200 bucks and they were massive.

First thing I ask is....is it a white van? He says yeah how did you know? did she talk to you?

I said Nope, it's a well known scam you jackass.

Then it took me about 5 minutes to convince him. I almost punched him in the face!
 
A couple years ago someone approached my friend at a parking lot trying to sell him speakers. My friend traded him a pair of fake oakleys for a sh*tty speaker, that was a strange deal.
 
Originally posted by: Cycad
A couple years ago someone approached my friend at a parking lot trying to sell him speakers. My friend traded him a pair of fake oakleys for a sh*tty speaker, that was a strange deal.
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lol...thats funny...

how does this scam seem to happen everywhree in the country?...i find that kinda weird...like everyone thought of the exact same scam...or is it just in california?



 
Originally posted by: eakers
a guy i know bought speakers from a van once and pawned them after for more money than he paid.

*shrug*
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This is a well known scam... i've run into them here in Cambridge when coming out of a bank. It's the same thing all over... "ook, i've got another set of speakers due to a mistake on their part... so it's not costing me anything. These are worth over $1000, but i'll sell them to you for $200."

 
It's an old scam.. I was once hit up by the white van people back in 1985, and they had the same story back then.
 
Happened to me once on my way back to work in the afternoon. Waiting for a light to change and a guy in a red van pulls up next to me and gives the "there's no delivery address and my boss doesn't care" routine. Quite amusing actually. At first I didn't even hear him cause I had my stereo up loud. 😛
 
Heh, they talked to me about 3 weeks ago...I could hardly keep a straight face as I told them uhhhh no thanks.
 
a friend of mine actually bought the speakers from the back of the van one day... sold em for twice what he paid 😛
 
ive been asked 3 times. 2 at gas pumps and 1 time leaving the mall waiting for a light. everytime a white van.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
a friend of mine actually bought the speakers from the back of the van one day... sold em for twice what he paid 😛
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i had it happened to me twice. once on riverside while i was driving (they motioned to lower the window and shouted) and another while i was washing my car near campus.
 
omg...i only read or heard about this...but yesterday i was sitting in the parking at a bank and some dood in a white van pulls up...asks me...i was like oh crap
 
Has anyone ever tried blackmailing these numbskulls? Something like "Give me $50 and I won't follow you around for a couple of hours making sure that you don't make any sales..." might work. Hell, all it takes is one person with a lot of free time and a bad attitude and they're out of business for the day.
 
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