Scams--really?

[devnulljp]

I just stumbled upon scamshield and after reading a few pages of stuff I'm amazed.
For example: http://www.scamshield.com/Sighting.asp?state=none&country=Canada&article=1
Story seems to be random guys randomly offer to sell people a $4000 stereo system for $200 or so...at a gas station, in a parking lot, after running someone off the road, etc.
People are dumb enough to buy something under these conditions and then have the gall to complain about it afterwards?
What parallel universe is this? Do you have any sympathy for them? That's a stupid/greedy tax in my book.
Am I missing something?

[Robert1950]

That's a stupid/greedy tax in my book.
Am I missing something?

That would be a dumb f##k stupid tax in my opinion. There really should be a stupid tax of some sort.

[violation]

I never knew so many people purchased their speakers in parking lots and on the side of the road.

[suttree]

you know, for all it baffles me, everywhere you go, you see those god-awful piezo tweetered particle board and grey astroturf speakers though (or their modern chromed plastic and black ozite blinged out cousins). and usually someone's got "half price, $800" written on them (not bad for $18.74 worth of materials)... heck even the pawnshops always seem to buy ONE pair off someone, when the "new guy" was left alone or something.

as the reverend PT barnum said.. "there's a sucker born every minute".

[devnulljp]

I'm not only amazed that people do this kind of thing, but that they then talk about it afterwards. I'm sure I'd be too embarrassed.

I used to live in Thailand, and every other week you'd hear some loud eejit bragging--or complaining depending how far into the scam we're talking about--that he'd bought diamonds or emeralds or something worth thousands of dollars for only a couple of hundred bucks from a taxi driver's brother...of course the complaing starts when they find out what they actually got was maybe $2 worth of paste or glass or something.

Stupid tax.

[zontar]

Yet many people who fall for the scams brag they would never do so.

Well good thing I don't have a fancy home entertainment system. My current stereo speakers do me just fine.

[Rumble_b]

Wow!! Those people are stupid. I had some guys try to sell me some speakers out of van once. They pulled up while I was outside on break at work. I can't post what I said to them on here, but it wasn't too nice.

[dwagar]

what amazes me is that people don't think that they might be buying stolen property?

[shoretyus]

Gee mine sound good :sport-smiley-002:...

But I didn't buy them I ended up with them

[mario]

Wow!! Those people are stupid. I had some guys try to sell me some speakers out of van once. They pulled up while I was outside on break at work. I can't post what I said to them on here, but it wasn't too nice.LOL, I had the same thing happen to me outside of The Beer Store here in London 4 times! I can't believe how these people think they can get away with it...but I guess like the old saying "...a sucker born every minute".

[SinCron]

Wow!! Those people are stupid. I had some guys try to sell me some speakers out of van once. They pulled up while I was outside on break at work. I can't post what I said to them on here, but it wasn't too nice.

Might sound like what I had happen.

"Yo n****, wanna buy some speaka's?" "No thanks. I already have some good speakers". "Yo f*** you man, this sh*t's good but hey, whateva, I'll go sell to one of yo friends and he'll be the big man braggin bout his dope sound".

Sound anything like that? Lol.

[NB-SK]

What surprises me is how many people don't know about eBay and don't ask themselves why they aren't selling their speakers there.

[Milkman]

Being stupid or naive doesn't mean you deserve to be ripped off.

If someone tries to sell you stuff like this, I suggest you keep them there while someone else calls the cops.

It's us against them and to coin a phrase, you're either with us or against us.

[devnulljp]

Being stupid or naive doesn't mean you deserve to be ripped off.
If someone tries to sell you stuff like this, I suggest you keep them there while someone else calls the cops.
It's us against them and to coin a phrase, you're either with us or against us.
OTOH, if these morons didn't support this kind of activity with cash then it would stop andthe rest of us wouldn't have to put up with it.
Same with spam. If people would stop buying h3rb@1 v1@gr@ from spam, it would stop and the rest of us would benefit.
Hopefully, there's a lesson learned in which case they're paying for a bit of schooling?

[Milkman]

OTOH, if these morons didn't support this kind of activity with cash then it would stop andthe rest of us wouldn't have to put up with it.
Same with spam. If people would stop buying h3rb@1 v1@gr@ from spam, it would stop and the rest of us would benefit.
Hopefully, there's a lesson learned in which case they're paying for a bit of schooling?

There's only one hand.


My quote suggested what to do when someone offers you such a "deal".

[nitehawk55]

I read in a thread elswhere that these guys selling speakers out of a van is an organised business and has been going on for years . They give the sales pitch that the supplier accidently gave them an extra pair of high end speakers and they are just trying to unload them . From what I understand there is nothing illegal about how they sell .

[laristotle]

...the supplier accidently gave them an extra pair of high end speakers and they are just trying to unload them .

That's happened to me twice.
One of the times, they were
flying pretty high.