These ass clowns have reached NC (Cary more specifically). I saw them yesterday in the Harris Teeter parking lot trying to dupe people. Most people have enough common sense to know this is a scam but for the few gullible ones, watch out.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/hall_of_shame/sweet-sounding-deal-hits-a-sour-note

Apparently, this is a scam being done all over the US and Canada.



[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 10:52 AM. Reason : ,]

7/22/2010 10:51:15 AM

thanks for the headsup my grandparents forwarded too

oh look, threads from two years ago too

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=541136

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 10:52 AM. Reason : w]

7/22/2010 10:52:00 AM

I know its an old scam but still relevant



[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 10:56 AM. Reason : .]

7/22/2010 10:52:58 AM

yeah, this scam was going on at the bank of america in cameron village (and Im sure plenty of other places around raleigh) back when I was a freshman in 2000

7/22/2010 10:53:42 AM

well its back

7/22/2010 10:54:35 AM

saw this at a best buy in 1756

7/22/2010 10:55:26 AM

well its back

7/22/2010 10:55:46 AM

white chuck wagon phonograph scam

7/22/2010 10:56:30 AM

throw back

7/22/2010 10:57:56 AM

I'D LIKE TO GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO DOGG DIGITAL SPEAKERS

7/22/2010 11:02:40 AM

dude. it's been in NC for a long damn time.

7/22/2010 11:04:05 AM

That reporter was pretty entertaining.

Quote :

"Why you being a wuss, Paul?"

7/22/2010 11:08:35 AM

yeah you could tell he was pissed



wdprice3, I am sure it has but I hadn't seen it first hand until yesterday

7/22/2010 11:12:29 AM

Quote :

"These ass clowns have reached NC"

in other news, dialup internet has reached the carolinas

7/22/2010 11:15:51 AM

ALSO SHOUTS TO THE TVA, WPA, FIRE, AND THE WHEEL

FREE MUMIA

FREE THE DELL DUDE

7/22/2010 11:16:41 AM

FREE TIBET

BECAUSE THE BEASTIES SAID SO

7/22/2010 11:17:13 AM

SAND FOUND NEAR BEACH

7/22/2010 11:19:00 AM

WATER IS WET

7/22/2010 11:20:46 AM

That guy was funny.

Come one Paul, be a man!

7/22/2010 11:22:00 AM

Wow my coworker at home depot definitely tried to pull something similar to that on me a couple years ago.

7/22/2010 11:32:37 AM

Not really a scam. They ask for your money and you give it to them. The actual "value" of the speakers(whatever that means) is irrelevant. They even give you a phone number you can call to verify the manufacturers suggested retail price. I'd say they're just living the American dream.

I used to talk to the guy at the fairgrounds that sells them. He told me some of his secrets to spotting the suckers and setting the initial asking price.

I've got a set of Dogg Digital Audio(White Van) speakers I picked up at a yardsale for $10. The midrange blew out pretty easy, but once I replaced those they sound okay.

7/22/2010 11:38:29 AM

BOOM

7/22/2010 11:38:42 AM

Are these scams illegal?

Like, can police go break them up?

7/22/2010 11:42:28 AM

Let's see, soliciting and operating without a city business license. Maybe even tax evasion, but that's about it. You could be charged with the same things for selling girl scout cookies.

Dick cops might also seize their merchandise on suspicion of it being stolen...but it's not. They buy these things for about $50 a set at a warehouse over in Cary. If they happen to have a trademark name on them they could get them for counterfeit goods, but usually they have straight-from-taiwan names like "Digital Audio" or something similarly meaningless.


[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM. Reason : .]

7/22/2010 11:46:36 AM

I would assume most businesses they crouch on would probably call the police, especially someplace like Cameron Village.

7/22/2010 11:53:46 AM

What ^^ said.

It's just suckers buying overpriced gear. Not so much different than buying overpriced shit anywhere else (like at a yardsale).

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM. Reason : ^]

7/22/2010 11:55:03 AM

In my opinion, Best Buy is more criminal than these guys.
http://consumerist.com/2008/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables.html

7/22/2010 11:58:38 AM

Quote :

"I'd say they're just living the American dream."

So lying about the value of something and making up a completely FALSE storyline as a sales pitch specifically to take advantage of people's ignorant knowledge of a consumer product is your idea of the American dream?

man this country is fucked up

7/22/2010 12:05:49 PM

haha omg - every time I see this, I laugh.

Last summer, I bought a brand new unopened iPhone at a yard sale in Rochester, NY for $25. The chick was my age and said her dad won it at a work party and didn't have ATT so she tried putting it on ebay and it didn't sell so she sold it to me for $25. I put it on eBay and sold it for $355 (no problem ).... so I told a coworker about this (a guy who was 23 at the time) and he was amazed.

A few weeks later, he runs in to the office and said he had been in the Best Buy parking lot when some guys in a white van approached him about some "awesome brand new speakers, blah blah blah". In any case, he bought speakers "that retailed for more than $3000 for $220" and he wanted me to sell them for him and I could make commission... I lol'd my ass off.

7/22/2010 12:09:42 PM

yup thats them

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM. Reason : except that the speakers actually cost $90]

7/22/2010 12:14:26 PM

flog these sons of bitches

their victims are stupid/inexperienced, but they themselves are lying scum

flog them thoroughly and flog them hard

7/22/2010 12:15:55 PM

Quote :

"So lying about the value of something and making up a completely FALSE storyline as a sales pitch specifically to take advantage of people's ignorant knowledge of a consumer product is your idea of the American dream?"

did u not see the post above you about best buy?

i would say its close to the same thing. If i had $1 for every time i heard a BB employee rave about how much better monster cables were...

7/22/2010 12:16:25 PM

For the last fucking time this is not a scam. People can use any method to sell anything they want.

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

7/22/2010 12:19:09 PM

^
disagree
you can't lie about your product
selling fake diamonds as real diamonds, for example, is fucking wrong, even though the person who buys them is obviously an idiot
that's the objection I have here...I think it is wrong to lie about your product and thereby cheat the stupid

7/22/2010 12:19:40 PM

Yeah I saw it but what these guys are doing is a bit worse. Monster cables are hyped by a ton more manufacturers than Best Buy and I use $6 HDMI cables from Monoprice and cannot tell the difference. So whether they are actually better or not is so hard to tell that it doesn't warrant the markup.

However, there is a huge difference between Monster cables being marked up to $100 vs creating a fake story about the warehouse sending too many units or whatever ridiculous skit they go through, then following it with stating that the speakers ACTUALLY SELL FOR $3000 (which is a complete lie) and then act like they are cutting you a deal by giving them to you for $200. Its shady as shit. That is a scam, plain and simple.

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM. Reason : referring to KeB]

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM. Reason : /]

7/22/2010 12:22:45 PM

Coffee is for Closers.

Lying = Salesmanship

^Someone, somewhere, HAS bought these speakers for $3000.

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 12:24 PM. Reason : .]

7/22/2010 12:23:04 PM

i'm sorry but if you are stupid enough to buy a consumer electronic out of the back of an unmarked white van, you deserve to be scammed.

i don't care if they tell you the speakers will give you a blowjob and then cook you breakfast...

or that the sugg retail price is $3000

you are buying shit out of a van

you deserved to get scammed....

not to mention that most of the time these people buy these speakers to turn around and try to scam someone else by selling them on TWW or Ebay or Craigslist....

7/22/2010 12:24:01 PM

The reporter in that video is like


I like when he called the guy a wuss

7/22/2010 12:24:48 PM

this country is fucked up

7/22/2010 12:25:02 PM

Caveat emptor

7/22/2010 12:25:20 PM

I have a set of Dogg Digital Audio speakers in better than new condition. These retail for $3000 but I'll let TWW have them for just $100. My wife is going to be pissed if I bring these things home. Can't you help me out.

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Speaking of which, I fucking love it when grown men pretend to be subject to their wife's whims when purchasing something. "Let me run that by my wife" "My wife will be so pissed as it is, can't you give me a break?" "My wife says I can't go over $100" It's the most emasculating bargaining ploy in the world. If I give you a discount it is entirely because I pity your miserable existence.

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 12:28 PM. Reason : .]

7/22/2010 12:25:29 PM

^^^
to be fair, this has nothing to do with America

this kinda shit was old when Babylon was founded

7/22/2010 12:28:36 PM

"Hey man, ....psst, yeah you! I've got these granite blocks on the cart. Damn quarry sent us too many. My slave master is going to be fucking pissed if I bring these things all the way back. Maybe you can help me out. These things usually going for 2000 denari, but I'll let you have them for a tenth of that just to save my donkey some trouble, you know what I mean? You better hurry though, while we can still talk to each other."

7/22/2010 12:31:38 PM

Quote :

"you can't lie about your product"

uh amendments much? There shouldn't be anything illegal about being a shitbag and running a shitty business.

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

7/22/2010 12:35:09 PM

hahahaaahahaaha

[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM. Reason : smc^^]

7/22/2010 12:35:24 PM

smc++

7/22/2010 12:43:31 PM

what manufacturer puts MSRP on the barcode?

7/22/2010 12:44:13 PM

EXACTLY

7/22/2010 12:53:27 PM

i buy all my electronics out of vans in parking lots.

7/22/2010 3:57:16 PM

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[Edited on July 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM. Reason : +]

7/22/2010 3:59:56 PM