I came across several articles online about this and I wanted to put my experience on online as well hoping people see this and are aware of this scam.
Heres what happened to me. I was at my bank taking out money from the outside ATM machine when I was approached my a gentlemen in a Blue Honda Minivan. I figured the guy was lost and was looking for some direction. He told me that this is going to sound strange but he is trying to sell a home audio surround sound system. I'm thinking um ok right, scam alert! I told him sure, I'll talk to you about it. I finished my transaction at the ATM while he pulled into a parking space. This shows how intelligent this guy is, banks have cameras dummy!!! The driver was in his late 40's and the passenger was early 20s.
The driver begins to tell me that he installs stereo systems and his boss was suppose to give him 2 systems to install but accidentally gave him 3 and he is trying to get rid of this 3rd one. He opened the side door to his van and showed me all of these boxes and even showed me this receipt that he was given 2 systems but they screwed up and actually gave him 3. The speakers were Orin Ross, I never heard of them and I'm a big audio fan, both car and home, also am an engineer and knew right away this stuff was junk. I played around with him a little bit acting like I was interested. He went on telling me how great these were, had a magazine in the car that had a big ad inside for these Orin Ross speakers and even showed me the printed MSRP on the box of 1895. I dont recall seeing a piece of audio equipment list the MSRP right on the box. I asked him how much he wanted, he tells me 500. I tell him I cant afford that because I just purchased a house and I have closing in a couple of weeks and I need all the money I can get. He asked what I would be comfortable paying, I told him 40 or 50. He said he couldn't accept that and he would continue looking for someone else to buy them. I said fair enough, shook his hand and I left the bank parking lot and drove next door to burger kings drive thru to get lunch.
So now I'm sitting in the drive thru and guess who is driving up along side all of the cars, yep speaker guy. Hes asking everyone in the drive thru if they want to buy these speakers. This guy even comes back up to me and asks me. I said you already asked me. He says I did? Oh yea thats right, second times a charm. Less then 2 minutes have gone by and he totally forgot asking me the first time.
In the other articles I read online they are exactly the same, the speaker name, the boss giving him to many system to install, showing a magazine ad, everything. There are a certain type of people in this world who deserve to be shot and they are scam artist. I've been scammed before and I was lucky to get my money back after jumping through hoops, I dont take scamming lightly.
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