Beware of the White Van Speaker Scam
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- In this video, we uncover the truth behind the notorious White Van Speaker Scam. If someone approaches you with a too-good-to-be-true offer from the back of a van, it's best to proceed with caution. Learn how scammers use persuasive tactics to sell subpar products at inflated prices, leaving unsuspecting buyers feeling duped. Stay informed and protect yourself from falling victim to this common scam. Watch now to arm yourself with knowledge and avoid becoming the next target of the White Van Speaker Scam. For more tips on how to spot and avoid scams, subscribe to our channel and hit the notification bell so you never miss out on our latest videos! #WhiteVanSpeakerScam #AvoidScams #ScamAlert
I am a older gentleman, this scam has been going on since the late 70's
It sure has! Thanks for watching:)
Gaadam! 😆 🤣 😂
Same here. Someone in a white van tried that BS spiel on me around 1977.
Claimed the warehouse screwed up and miscounted their inventory, so they had "extra" speakers for a great deal.
I said nope, and smoked him out with my 68' GTO's burning tires! LOL!
Yeah, I remember in the 80s one of those white vans approached me in a parking lot. Said they worked for a home theater installer, had some speakers left over and the boss told them to get rid of em.
Fortunately my Spidey sense was tingling and I didn't buy em.
Same here been seeing these clowns in Home Depot parking lots across nyc since the early 90’s when they were selling (Infinity) speakers.
So guys selling speakers out of the back of a white van are scammers? Man, I'm sure glad I bought my speakers from a dude in a blue van.
LOL! You got lucky! Thanks for watching:)
That wasn't a dude.
@@sh550 Now that is funny
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Haha! Good one!😂
Did I just time travel back 25 years? Surely this cannot be a thing anymore 😂
LOL! But it is! Thanks for watching:)
As long as we have gullible marks they will be selling these speakers forever.
LOL, someone tried this scam on me almost 30 years ago, I didn't know it was still going on either.
I was just thinking that same thought. I got nailed back in 1989. Lol😂
BINGO! THAT was my first thought!
I genuinely thought I was watching a clip from the 2000’s when these scams were trending before trending was word in common trends.
I have zero sympathy for idiots who buy this crap because like the presenter at the end says, it’s quite simple “Nothing good is going on in the back of a van in a parking lot!”
Have a safe 2004 everyone!✌️
The line they used on me was, "Our distributor was supposed to give us five speakers and they gave five PAIR!!"
That was in 1988.
Not a bad line! Thanks for watching:)
Because everyone wants an odd pair of speakers.
Heard the same line in the 80s. "We don't want to have to take them back to the warehouse so we're practically giving them away!!"
They told me that they were going to clubs around the state installing the speakers and had a few cancellations and didn't want to have to haul the extras around lol .
=D
the white van speaker scams were fairly common in my area 30 years ago.
Yep. Some go farther back than that.
I still have a pair. lol
Yes. Goes back to the early 1980's. Speakers and car alarms.
I had a funny one once. This guy walks up to me and asks me if I want to by some leather jackets. I say no thanks, but we get talking and I end up getting talked around a bit. His story is that he's a fashion designer, in town for some big conference, and they give out goody bags to the participants and this one had some designer jackets. He just wants some cash for his last night in Sydney Australia. So finally I offer him 200 bucks for the three jackets (they feel and smell like real leather so I'm like, if I'm getting ripped off it's not too bad really). I'll never forget this pained look on his face as he accepted. Turned out his story was completely legit and they were all Armani jackets, including a trench coat.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
Anyone selling brand new electronics out the back of a truck in boxes is a scam.
You would think that's a no brainier
I robbed these guys a few years back and all I got out of it was a bunch of junk speakers. Lesson learned!
😂 that's gold man...
just not for you I guess
@bjkarana What does that say about you, that you openly admit to robbing someone? What kind of people raised you, or didn't raise you I should say. It's too bad you weren't busted by the cops. What was the date and location of your robbery?
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly Thieves love thieves.
@@CoopyKat I do my robberies on February 30th, most years.
@@CoopyKat
Did you expect honor among thieves? 🤣
"Nothing good happens out of the back of a van in a parking lot" 😂
The white speaker van was here in NJ 25 years ago !
Oldest scheme in the book lol. Seriously
Only lot Lizard Action in a truck stop parking lot. Some of them babes are really hot.
Best advice for ages! That should be part of the Commandment. 😂
I've had some great times in the back of a van
I remember this from back in the 80’s!🥤🤣🍿
It goes that far back. 😂 as a kid I remember but that was the late 90s earliest I seen it.
I know 2 people that fell for this one. One of them actually resold them to a neighbor! 😂The van usually hangs out right at the ATM.
@@billdivine9501When you see a guy lingering close to an ATM, that’s a massive red flag anyone should be able to spot.
I bought some back in 1989 for around $275. I think I talked them down from $400 or $500. I still probably paid too much but I did use them for years.
It was more popular back then, but I've seen the same thing with other products recently. Avoid all VAN buying. It's either stolen or junk.
Ahh. The days when you could look your scammers in the eyes.
If someone had a white van in a parking lot and spoke to me, i would think they were trying to traffic me and get the heck out of there fast.
Note to scammer headquarters "paint all the vans blue". lol
@@0verloadyep, the blue van will surely trick this guy on the lookout for white vans
They tried to scam me once back in 1990 or 1991 when I lived in Orange California. Being an Audio/Video electronic technician, I led them on for about 30 minutes, just wasting their time. In the end they would not take my deal of $50 (what I thought was a fair deal) for their $1500 speakers. I hope I kept someone from getting scammed during that time.
I guess nothing's new. I remember this and similar scams from 2009.
1990 in Connecticut. The scammers came university of CT campus and worked out of RI and said they were delivering speakers to a bar but the distribution center accidentally put to many speakers in the van and they were selling them. Amazingly, they accepted a check from me for $120 - they were selling for like $500? One speaker made a rattle noise so I cancelled the check with the bank. Then they went to the address on the check - my parents house and told my mom I was short on cash and she paid them $120 in cash because I didn't have a phone in my dorm room. I then sold the speakers to someone in my dorm for like $80 so only a $40 loss and he replaced the damaged speaker.
ya, I unfortunately got taken. BUT, to my defense... I saw some investigative journal piece on how they get you... it showed how they show you the real product, then give you a box with bricks in it that's wrapped up like it's new. I made sure there were no bricks in my box. And thought it was legit. No scam here! Well, the scam was they just unloaded some REALLY cheap speakers for 20 times what they're worth. Yes the speakers actually worked and were real speakers. Just not 200 dollar speakers (or whatever I ended up paying... don't remember) I felt really dumb after that one. Surprised it's still a thing. That would have been like 1999 or 2000?.. something like that.
Yeah, they tried that with me back around mid-90s in Santa Ana.
Mine still work flawless mates.
I remember these van speaker guys trying to get me to buy a speaker when I was walking through a parking lot over 30 years ago. I figured it was a scam and said "no thanks." Then around 10 years ago a van pulled up to my house when I was outside and this guy tried to sell me an enormous quantity of meat...lol. I told him I was a vegetarian. Now I've been getting these mobile dent guys circling my car like vultures as soon as I pull into a parking lot. Ugh.
I’m in the uk and gonna sound a bit naive but what is the meat scam? Do you get bad or rotten cuts?
@@TayWoode ~ Yeah, they sell you meat at these incredible prices, but its like shoe leather. Had a neighbor fall for it. They actually came to my house first telling me one of my neighbors just bought some. I said, "Oh yeah? Which one? I'd like to ask them about it." He just sat there looking stupid and finally walked back to his truck. Next thing I know, I see another neighbor buying some. I asked him a few weeks later how it was and said, "About like how I imaging horse meat would be."
@@moncorp1 urgh! It probably was or something else, one scam they do in European cruises is when you stop somewhere for the afternoon, they sell you the latest iPhones for really cheap all wrapped up in the plastic, looking new and when you get back to the ship and and unbox it, it’s a brick inside! Happened to two people when I was in Barcelona and you can’t take it back coz the ship has set sail 😂
The look in that guy's eyes were beyond sketch
LOL! Thanks for watching:)
That Danon or Morentz speakers work great with Sorny or Panaphonics TVs, but are not compatible with Magnetbox.
Great comment bro.
Have you ever used any Herman Kardashian equipment? Top O The Line stuff my man!! 😂😂
@@randywissler9923 Yes everyone knows HK makes awesome speakers!
@@randywissler9923 Herman Kardashian always make my eyes bleed when I look at them. But the sound is good as long as they are muted.
Almost as good as Lofonics and Infurity speakers.
All you guys making fun of these speakers...smh!
They work great with my Samsong TV and pair up with my Blouwpunk speakers. Gosh!
Wow I remember the white van speakers back in the 80's.
I remember this happening to me one day getting fuel...Dude pulls up with a van full of speakers, runs through his pitch all while I'm just laughing at him. He was mad at me for laughing....I laughed even harder when he said that. Told him that for a scam artist he had some thin skin. LOL
LOL! Thanks for sharing and watching:)
Who is buying speakers from a van anymore? Lol😂
Thanks for watching!
Low Low IQ
I buy all my audio gear from Tesla Cybertrucks. Elon said it was OK.
The same people buying 1 of 1 cars.
I knew a few people 25 years ago that made really good money with this in the Chicagoland area. They tried to recruit me but I couldn't do that to people. I'll take a clear conscience over a big paycheck any day of the week.
Me too! Thanks for watching:)
Yes, I was one of those people in the Chicagoland area who did that for a couple years. I had no idea this had been going on so long. 😂😮😅
This goes way back, back to the late 1970s. Sometimes they'd imply the speakers were stolen.
Thanks for watching:)
It was big in the Toronto area back in the 70s at Yorkdale shopping mall.
Dude, tried that on me in the 00s in the parking lot of a Home Depot. The scam seemed outdated even back then.
IKR? Thanks for watching:)
Some scammers did this on Craigslist a few years back. They also had a fake website touting the greatness of the speakers. Had they improved their fake website better, they might have been able to fool more people.
I remember this scam from back in the 80's. I would "F" with these for clowns for 30-40 minutes then walk away.
LOL
Sure ya did. 👍
But.... That equally wasted your time too. So that's still a loss.
I always ask them for a cigarette
Wasted your own time!!
Lmaooo… you still using those speakers today???
Circa 1981 I was 23 years old, making $5.00 an hour, and I was walking into an auto parts store and some guy walked up to me and said, "wanna buy chips?" And i said what's chips. And his eyes lit up. He walked me over to his open car trunk full of shrink-wrapped boxes of 6x9 tri-axial car speakers, which were a 'thing' back then. I had 6x9 "regular" Jensen (very good brand) speakers in my car because i couldn't afford the Jensen Tri-axial. The Tri-axial speakers in his trunk were not Jensens but they were Tri-axial, so how bad could they be at the price he was asking? I walked away happy--- until I installed them.... One of the speakers was "blown" right out of the box. And the other sounded so shitty I pulled them right out and tossed them. *facepalm*
I managed a small HiFI boutique in the early 80's. We actually bought a pair of these scam speakers out of petty cash to show customers the bad workmanship and crummy components. We even did side by side comparisons. Our B&W's sounded like a concert hall. The RAL's (what they were called at the time) sounded like a kid's toy. We educated a lot of people, not so much on good hifi components but more on not getting scammed.
That's awesome! Thanks for watching:)
These guys got a good friend of mine in Sacramento CA in 1997, and they took him for around $200. He had those two big speakers of shame in his living room for a couple of years. I offered to buy them from him because I wanted to use the speaker boxes, but being a good friend he refused to sell me them because every part was trash.
Thanks for sharing!
So why did he keep them that long
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly He couldn't sell them and couldn't quite build up the courage to throw them out, so they probably stayed until one of his next moves before he tossed them.
That's Funny.
Because I grew up in Seattle around lots of audio companies like Speakerlab, Speaker Factory, Carver and the like.
And remember buying 4 speakers from some of those guys in the early 80's, just for the boxes.
They were good boxes, and solid wood. Guess we just had better JUNK back in the day 😂
... still have a ton of that stuff too 🤗
@@My-Pal-Hal When my friend took the speakers apart they were made of 1/4" chip board with 15" drivers with the smallest magnets I have ever seen. If I had swapped drivers into those boxes I would have probably shaken them to pieces.
Also, this was back in 1997 when they were selling large speakers that looked like professional studio monitors or concert hall speakers, not the more compact stuff they have sold in the last couple of decades.
Reminds me of the people that stand on the street corner looking for funeral donations for their dead daughter. Or the guy at a gas station that is willing to sell you some of his tools for gas money.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
Hats off to the person or team that took the time to do the packaging design for these speakers. Afterall, that's a huge part of what sells it.
Thanks for watching:)
A white van guy tried to sell me speakers when we stopped at the lights. In Melbourne, Australia, in 1985.
Many times also..Always that same excuse, oh we got extra speakers, they oversupplied us, wanna good deal? 😂😂
I'm in my 50's but when I was 20 and looking for work I replied to an ad for "electronic salesman". When I arrived it was a warehouse and there were 20-30 other guys there. They started the hard sell right away and tried to make anyone not going along like a loser. I was the first to stand up and say no thanks. They ridiculed me for not wanting to make money. I was one of 2 or 3 more that left. The rest stayed to sell their crappy speakers. After that I was approached at least 10 times by people with this scam. Every time saying "No". If you have an ounce of common sense you know this is scam.
Nothing new here- there used to be a company called Carolina Tools who had guys travelling around in pickups with things like compressors and engine hoists they said they needed to get rid of cheap because they were too expensive to ship back to the factory. Then there was a company called Smithy who set up sales in motel parking lots claiming they were selling freight damaged or return machines. They were all just cheap Chinese junk, but the suckers jumped on that "bargain" price sales pitch.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
They also do this scam with furniture in large box vans.
Amazing that no one at the where house / dist center ever gets fired for putting too many items in the van lol
@@pcofranchonestly thought they were just stealing the stuff themselves and seeking it on the side. But I would always inspect before buying. Fully cutting it open and trying em out. Been to a few pawn shops before that pull fast ones. Nah I'm not beat.
It’s been going on for many years because the PT Barnum saying “There’s a sucker born every minute” is still correct.
True! Thanks for watching and sharing:)
If someone tells you speakers are worth $2500, it's a scam. If they tell you they're selling them for $700, you better believe they're hotter than a $2 pistol on a Saturday night. Call the cops!
😮
Thanks for watching:)
Nobody buys speakers without listening to how they sound, unless they're missing a few bulbs....lol
Yes! I am stupid because I didn’t do that!
Not that dumb now cause I reckon it was just over 30 years ago
And all I was back then was “ young, dumb, and full of shit’!!
@@alphadog158 >Young, and stupid. < That's what women say when they get knocked up at an early age. 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂
I remember running into these dudes in 1998!
Same here, late 90's in Denver, almost got in a fight with them as I called them out and they started threatening me,
Same here about same year
As others have stated, these types of scams have been going on for a long time. I remember back in 1968 my parents were dropping me off to my Grandmothers house in San Pedro for the summer. When we arrived, we found my Grandmother very upset with her head in her hands. There was a new box on the kitchen table that was for a 19 inch color tv. We asked her what happened, and she said look in the box. Inside was just the outside case of a tv, but it had a few bricks in it. The screen was intact, and in fact, that was all the scammers showed her was a small section of the screen to show her that is was supposedly the real thing. She paid them $100.00 for it, and in fact had to borrow some of it from her apartment neighbor Ida. A good 19 inch color tv was rather expensive back then. Anyway, she did get over it, but that was a lot of money back then. She never bought anything off the street again.
Thanks for sharing and watching:)
Back in the 90s I bought a pair of speakers from one of those guys (not the actual guys in this video, they probably weren't even born yet). I talked him down low enough that it was actually a pretty good deal. They performed pretty well for the price I paid. I had those speakers for years before selling them on to someone else.
Looks like you got your money's worth. Thanks for watching:)
they arent worth $10...........open them up and the average clock radio has far superior components i wouldn't take them if i was paid
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 This scam has been going on for so many years with so many different people and so many different speakers, you couldn't possibly know what speakers I got. I never managed to blow them in the years that they were hooked up to my hundred-watt Kenwood receiver, so they were obviously better than clock radio speakers. 🙄 They still worked fine when I sold them, and the guy I sold them to had no complaints. They certainly weren't on the level of my Marantz main channel speakers, but they were as good as anything you could buy from the flea market and certainly worth more than $10.
This has been going on for a long time. I was at an ATM in the 80's when a van pulled up ,out jumped a dude trying to sell me some high dollar liquid cooled speakers. Needless to say I did not bite, but they distracted me enough that the ATM machine kept my card and I had to get a new one.
LOL! Thanks for sharing and watching:)
these guys have approached me so many times when I used to live in San Diego. I’m so glad I didn’t buy in. Every time it was like our distributor shipped us two of them, but we only needed one.
Thanks for sharing!
Nothing good happens in the back of a van in a parking lot...that's gold right there 😂
I would automatically think that anyone selling boxed merchandise out of a van is probably trying to peddle stolen goods.
Anyone telling me they got scammed into buying garbage as a result of purchasing something out of the back of a van deserves exactly what they get as a lesson learned if not anything else.
You guys knew better and could very well have been contributing to theft for all any of you knew.
Thanks for sharing and watching:)
The old expression, “you can’t cheat an honest man,” comes to mind.
If someone tryst to sell me speakers out of the back of any vehicle. I'd yell. No sorry I'm deaf. Lol
Nice! Thanks for watching!
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Imagine Amazon vans driving around neighborhoods trying to sell you stuff that's in the van. With the ads and prices on the side. That would be so wild. :D
How is it spelled on the side of the van? "Amizon" or "Amezan"?
Thanks for watching:)
@@MisterMikeTexas Amozon
Twenty years ago when I was nineteen I was approached THREE TIMES in parking lots all right next to each other, with hot speakers. They were all different guys, but they knew for some reason it was a good place to stop. I declined all three times. I never suspected they were garbage. I just assumed they were stolen, which they probably were. This all happened within a year in a small tourist town!
Wow! Thanks for commenting and sharing! :)
Absolutely any product that must be hard sold by traveling salespeople is either poor quality or way overpriced. Don't fall for high pressure sales people. You can always find a better product in an honest store for a fair price.
Good advice! Thanks for watching:)
disagree. lots of nice things happen in the back of a van at the end of parking lots
And it usually involved rocking said van...
just ignore the bound & gagged children in the back
As long as you have protection.
I remember this from years ago. I surprised it's happening now. Thanks for the warning.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching:)
When I was at university in the 90s a friend of mine was proudly showing off the £3000 speakers he had just bought for £300. Another friend of ours who is massively into his HiFi saw them and knew instantly he had been scammed. We ended up taking the speakers apart like you did and they effectively had car radio speakers inside. A few years later I was driving a brand new Subaru Impreza Turbo and I used to get these guys almost crashing in their desperation to pull alongside me to tell me about the great speakers they had in the back of the van that they were taking back to the warehouse but could sell me for a fraction of their retail price.
25 years on I cannot believe this scam is still happening.
Thanks for sharing and watching:)
Ok, anyone buying anything from the back of any vehicle, well, nuff said!😂
"There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
Back in the early 90s, these guys would be in the bank parking lot every Friday when I was cashing my paycheck. I never fell for it. I knew it was either junk, or stolen.
Thanks for sharing!
I remember running into several of the guys in the early 00s when I was in college. I was never dumb enough, but my roommate was. He brought home these one day excited, with the same story that made no sense that I had already hear several times before
I can remember that scam back in the mid 70's along with radios this just proves everything runs in circles
It sure does! Thanks for watching:)
I feel like a kid again
The white van scams are back
Thanks for watching:)
I have a friend who bought speakers from a white van guy back in the early 80s. He claimed they sounded fine. I think it was cover for not admitting he did this. I’ll have to ask him again now that he’s much older.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
Yeah, that's been going on for decades. I remember when folks were selling speakers and stereo equipment at weekend flea markets in my area back in the 1980s I do need some new speakers for an old hi-fi stereo system but I won't buy anything unless I can walk into a retailer and hear the 'sound quality' coming out of the speakers.
i had someone come up to me last year trying this scam and it absolutely made my day. he didnt like that i tried to get it on video. i havent seen someone attempt this in 20 years when someone tried to do it to me in front of my custom home theater store.
Thanks for sharing and watching:)
A group of 3 or 4 approached be at a gas station. I almost bought something. Glad i didn't now. They said they got hired to install in someone's house and they backed out and wanted to try to recoup there losses. I knew something was up and if it sounds to good to be true it usually is.
Agree! Thanks for watching:)
This has been around since the 70's...
This happened to me about 20 years ago in college taking up an electrical engineering tech degree. I pulled into a Radio shack for a few components I needed right then and as soon as I got out of my vehicle these guys had fallowed me into the parking lot and said ‘the client who was scheduled to have this sound system installed didn’t want them and their boss wanted them to sell it’. I don’t remember on what they wanted for it, but it was more than I had in my bank at the time.
This scam has been around for decades. In parking lots they would frame their sales pitch in a hush-hush manner. Without actually saying "we are selling stolen property", the con-man through a roundabout, almost whispering tone of voice was willing to sell you some "ill gotten" speakers and receivers at a substantial discount from the retail price.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
I worked for Crazy Eddie back in the 70s and I remember guys trying to sell crap speakers out of van in the store parking lot. My bkss put a big sign in the window of the store warning people. Crazy Eddie did some shady stuff but, he sold the real thing and customers were happy. 'IT'S INSANE!!!'
Ah, Crazy Eddie. He's so crazy!
Come on man. This scam has been going on for 30+ years at least. Same $h!zzle, different year. Buyer beware.
LOL - Shizzle:)
I had the scam attempted on me way back in 1998, but I have been a speaker builder since I was 16 so I told the guy to get lost. Wouldn't have really thought it was still a thing!
Thanks for sharing and watching:)
I work with hi-fi gear and I'm amazed that this is still going, I remember it from when I was a kid!
Thanks for watching:)
I still have a pair that's 30 yrs old. They were $200 back then.
Do they still work? Thanks for watching:)
@@TrustDALETV yes, and they sound good. want buy them?
Hahaha, this has been going on for 2 decades. I bought a pair back in 92. Been approached by them like 10 times over the years. Always a story about how they ended up with them.
Classic! Thanks for watching:)
They troll a plaza not far from where I have lived for a long time.
I even fell for it back in he 90s.
All these years later I found out it's all a scam.
A white van pulls up to me not that long ago and a guys asks "Hey, can I ask you a question?"
I reply "Sure, you want to know if I want to buy some speakers?"
He was so defeated and sad and then he mumbled, "That's not what I was going to ask you." as he crawled back in the white van and left.
Wow, Had no idea this scam was still a thing!
In the late 70's this was very common. Every Friday afternoon across the street from my bank a white van full of speakers was ready to make a deal! An acquaintance got a pair and although they did work but the boxes were very cheap pressed fiber and sounded like.........
A couple of dudes tried this on my back in '92. I didn't fall for it. It was way way way more than this one. 2x10,000 speakers for only 2,000. I guess they thought I was rich or something.
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
Its all that temu shit now people are gettin it and sellin it to our own people
Thanks for watching:)
Not good... maybe ask to have a demo fo the speakers
You cant. They pull up to you at a gas station or something and say, "hey we lost our wallet and cant get back to where were going. We sell these $2000 speakers, i'll sell you one for $400 so we can get gas to make it home." If you don't buy it then and there they just go find someone else. I mean you can ask but they will just move on.
@@Ginger_Chin ahh
don't waste your time....
Im not surprised that this scam still exists, what is surprising is that people still fall for it. I taught my kids when they were teenagers to NEVER buy anything from anybody with a van full of crap.
Had that happen to me back in the late 80's. I was walking out to my car on my lunch break when some guys in a white van called me over, asking if I wanted a great deal on some speakers. I was only like 18-19 at the time, but it didn't take me long to realize that none of the brands they were selling were anything I had ever heard of before. They kept trying to pressure me to buy, but I passed.
Smart move! Thanks for watching:)
when it comes to quality in regards to speakers, quality and weight go hand in hand!
Don't say that too loud - they will start adding weights inside the speaker cabinet.
@@pcofrancthey actually did that
nah, they put weights in them
Crappy Beats headphones have added weights
OH NO!
thats why they use a hot glue gun and rocks inside...............for real
I remember this at a Walmart parking lot over 20 years ago here in Canada. This scam sure gets around!
Thanks for watching and sharing:)
This happened to me in West St. Paul, Minnesota in 1980! Guy said they took them from the store / warehouse they worked at... I never bought.
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It all goes back to the quote “ if it sounds too good to be true” it probably isn’t!
30 years ago I went for a job interview and it was for this very thing. Once I heard what it was I told them it sounds like a scam. They got mad and told me to leave. Surprised it's still going on
Thanks for commenting and sharing! :)
It is most commonly mattresses that people sell out the back of vans around here, same old story of excess stock and no space back the warehouse etc….
I was scammed back in 1995 as a gullible 19 yr old in Ft wayne, IN. This incident made me realize to not be so trusting of people. They actually were in a white cargo van. Unbelievable!
Nothing like hard knocks to learn the way of the world, right? Hopefully this video might help others not have to learn the hard way too. Sometimes it seems so obvious, unless it doesn't. Thanks for commenting and sharing! :)
I fell for this back in 2002 only worked there one day and knew it was a scam in the first few minutes. It ended with one of the first day workers who got abandoned in Queens come back with his homies to threaten the owner and then 6 police cars rolled up to the parking lot demanding us all get on the ground with guns drawn and arrested the dude. This was out of Stamford. CT. Weirded day of my life.
Scary! Thanks for sharing and watching:)
I'm in San Francisco and I worked at a gas station a couple years back and I saw the same guy doing this scam right there every week.
That's nuts! Thanks for commenting and sharing! :)
I got hailed down while driving and I fell for it 25 years ago. I make sure to call them out at gas stations where they like to hang out. Ive come across about 10 since I was scammed.
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Crazy. I bought speakers from a white van, back in the 90s. I paid $300 for a couple of short towers that sounded amazing with my vintage Maratz stereo. I still have them.
Good for you! Thanks for watching and sharing:)
My vanderbach speakers are awesome and top of the line. I bought them for $2200 from a lady in a white minivan 3 months ago. I’m waiting to set them up once I move into my new place. It’s gonna kick ass!
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I was a reseller suddenly making a lot of money and looked up what they sold for on eBay. It seemed like a great opportunity and the scammer didn’t even tell me to check eBay. He was super high energy and hilarious, I really did find the guy amusing.
This was back in 2010. Lost $400, but it taught me a lesson for life.
I once answered a want ad for a job doing "outside sales" and when I got to the address it was in one of those garage bay warehouse commercial buildings that each tenant builds out to fit their business. The place was full of large white boxes and four white Chevy vans parked in the bay. I didn't even bother to go inside for the interview. I shouted in to one of the guys inside "are these the speakers you tell people your boss accidentally put in the van and that you can sell really cheap? And when the guy laughed I turned around and got back in my car.
This was around 1990. By then I had already met several people who bought a pair. Each time when they described the scenario I immediately told them they got scammed.
To be fair, their decent speakers. They aren't pure jynk, but you can get a much better deal through crutchfield or at best buy.
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Might pick some things up off temu and sell them out of a van now. Thanks for the business idea!
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My friend got me a pair of X5 headphones for my birthday and I can verify that they work and have continued working. It's the kind with the Bluetooth the clock and the radio however the clock is stuck in military time at least I haven't figured out how to put it to 12 hour time. The radio gets fairly decent reception and there's even a trick you can do when you plug the aux cable into the headphones and the other side into your car you can put bluetooth in your car without connecting it to the dash and having it store your information.
They tried something similar on me when I was returning to Rome after conquering the Gauls. A merchant, with a cart pulled by white oxen, offered me some good looking Pradae sandals at a price too low for them to have be genuine.
I bought nine pairs….
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What we once thought was old suddenly becomes new again!
I remember somebody pulling up on me in a parking lot in the early 90's. I already had speakers, but my Scam radar also was very peaked.
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I remember being approached in my bank's parking lot (no cause for alarm there, right?) in Cherry Hill, NJ back in the early 90's. The "speakers" they had were huge floor types. I said no thanks and, anyway, I don't think they would fit in my car. They offered to deliver. I said "Oh, in that case, Hell No!".
This guy tried to do this years ago to me. When i said no thanks he yelled at me "Youre fing crazy man". I saw the man in cuffs when leaving the mall a couple hours later.
Good thing you avoided that drama! Smart choice! Thanks for commenting and sharing! :)
@TrustDALETV I had no idea this scam was a widespread thing. Lol good video!
I recognized a guy that was doing this. He was in a local band at the time. Now the band he is in almost everyone has heard of.
wow 30 years ago in orange county i got scammed the same way in the 90s. i was in high school. the speakers were really bad :( crazy to see the same scam last so long.
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Had something similar happen in the commissary parking lot near NAVSTA Mayport in 2009. I suspect it was an undercover NCIS agent trying to entrap Sailors.
Had a friend fall for it back in the 80s. Just like a guy trying to sell you a brand new, sealed dvd player at the carwash.
I just can’t imagine buying anything from some strangers trunk 😂. I wouldn’t even go near the car at all because I would be paranoid.
I had someone try this scam on me like 25 years ago.
I was at the Bank going through the ATM drive thru and they pulled up next to me and said they ordered speakers and got an extra set.
I said I wasn't interested and called the police because I figured they were stolen.
I followed the van and told the 911 dispatcher where they were and after the police stopped them, I talked with the officers and they basically said that the story was that they were just selling speakers. The "extra set of speakers story" that they told me, was just a story that they tell people to make it seem more reasonable as to why they have speakers for sale.
Anyway. I knew something wasn't right. And whether or not it is illegal, I didn't want anything to do with it either way.
Crazy to see that they're still going.
I guess somebody must be buying them.
So you went Karen mode for nothing.
@@spikefivefivefive Kevin mode actually.
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I bought speakers out of a van about 25 years ago. I have post secondary education in "Audio Production", they work well to this day, they look amazing and they cost nearly nothing. its only a scam if you let yourself get scammed. I made them open the box and i looked at everything right down to the size of the magnet... mind you my speakers looked much better than the ones in this video... maybe mine were 'hot' or unrelated to the ones in the video...
I experienced this 30 years ago in Columbus Ohio. Didn't fall for it then and wouldn't fall for it now.
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