Sitting in Lowe's parking lot waiting on wife. Two losers drive up and want to offer me surround speakers at a good price.
Florida plates in central Arizona was the first thing to catch my attention.
Plate number WH7-DPK. They said they were students, one studying mathematics and the other sociology (what a combo huh?)
Olin Ross speakers for $2,450. They are willing to take $1000. I ask them where they came from.
They tell me that were supposed to deliver them to a house being built but they were not ready for the installation yet. They did not want to leave them there because the construction workers will steal them. Also, if they bring them back to their boss, he will take them and keep them for himself.
They would rather see "a normal dude get a good deal on some speakers rather than see their a#_hole boss get another nice set of electronic equipment".
They even put the pressure on by saying that they have to get back to their shop by 12:30 (current time 12:15) so they need to do this quick. Then they tell me that they had hoped to make enough money to put the other speakers in a hotel room so their boss would think that they had delivered them as instructed.
They had ligit paperwork, invoices, and even showed me a magazine advertisement that showed these speakers' MSRP at $2,450.
I say no. Then they pull a good cop-bad cop. Dude gets in car, other gets out and asks if I would buy them for $300. I tell him that I am an officer in the military and that I have to walk the line... This didnt seem right. Somewhere, someplace, someone is missing some expensive speakers and I didnt want them. They left the scene pissed.
Bottom line: if it is too good to be true then it is. Do what right in your heart of hearts and you will come out 1) the better person, and 2) go to bed at night not having been ripped off.
Bill
Buckeye, Arizona
U.S.A.
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