So, I was heading to the mall today and had to stop at the bank for my friend so that he could pick up money for his new phone that he was planning on buying. We got to Bank of America and withdrew the money we needed and was about to leave. Then two guys in a white van yell to me asking me for some directions.
I decide to help since I'm from around the area, they sad they were from Bellevue and looking for a place to store some speakers so that they could make a profit off of them. I hop out of my car to help them out then the real scam showed up. They asked me if I wanted to buy any speakers and that the warehouse where they picked it up at made a mistake and they had extras in their car that they were selling for next to nothing.
They gave the story of not wanting to outfit their bosses house with the extra speakers and said they were extremely high quality. Showed a receipt and the MSRP of over $2500. That made it look like it was legit to me. I said ok and said I'm going to call my step mom to see if I could do this and they said don't call anybody, we don't want this to be too wide spread. That threw up a red flag but I still got conned.
Since my friend had just picked up a bunch of cash we decided why not they look like nice speakers and we could always pawn it later for a higher price if the MSRP on the box were true. Picked them up for $400, what a waste. Found out from the pawn shops we checked that it is a scam and that they are cheaply made China speakers worth about $20...
Advice if you are ever approached by guys in a white van looking to sell you speakers walk away or just ignore them. Take down the license plate, call the cops, and try to stop these guys from scamming others.
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