Conman Sells "Solar Powered Clothes Dryer" For $49.95 .... But It Was Just A Clothesline
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Steve Comisar, was conman who in the early 1990’s ran ads in major publications across the US; advertising "Solar Powered Clothes Dryers" for only $49.95 but when people received their orders it was just an ordinary clothes line.
Man really chose tomfoolery as his career path
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Billy McFarland, the guy behind the infamous Fyre Festival , is also a fraud addict.
bro was born with the troll genes 😭😭
Troll DNA
Jew*
😂😂😂
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@@FREEDOM80085slow down on the racism my dude
Of course he runs a podcast.
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I said the exact same thing
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Ye, lol
Yep, exactly what I said. Like, of course that's how this ends.
Blud had his own book used against him 😭
Some dummy is gonna comment "2.5k LiKeS? LeT mE FiX tHaT"
nooo, my creation is my downfall!
Steve was ahead of his time
One could argue that he was retro
Imagine if he came up in the ‘make money fast’ courses game, he would own an island
@@bonnie1303other courses teacher would stand no chance against his wits, one could say he mastered the art of fraudulence
@@ZeldaTheSwordsman this
“And now runs a podcast” made sense
and the name of the podcast lol
accurate
"Scam Junkie" very subtle lol
He told people how to avoid him, and they didn't listen.
Him: Literally gives them a book on how to beat him.
Them: I don wanna read dat ding.
Intelligent people are his target audience. Stupid people are his target.
That is the most hilarious scam ever
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@@chickenlover6572 pieces of wood, right?
@@chickenlover657it exploded your home?
@@chickenlover657what was it
@@Bonktrauma A toothpick. And it came with precise written instructions how to impale every roach with said toothpick. Simply repeat 10 000 times and success is guaranteed.
I'm not even kidding.
Eventually, the guy selling the "device" (aka toothpick) was sued by an annoyed customer and ended up in court. But the judge rejected the plaintiff's complaints and ruled no criminal act was committed and that the asking price (of $1.00) for the information and toothpick provided was not beyond reasonable.
The guy had amassed a million bucks by that time and he was allowed to keep every cent. Meanwhile, the fool that sued him had to pay all legal expenses. lol
I mean what were they expecting??? A bulky big box with solar panels attached to it. Clothelines are way easier 💀💀💀💀
and the traditional way is waaaay more efficient, if you did this way, you would loose energy by converting from heat to electricity and then back again from electricity to heat, it doesn't even make sense
Maybe it could heat clothes hotter than they'd get on the line, drying them faster?
Useful when you need to dry your clothes when there's no sunlight or heat from the sun. Mostly at night or rainy days
@@stevenofpekoland but it’s powered by sunlight….
@@AuralPods-gm4pg sorry, I was meant it uses the solar energy and store it in a battery or something so you can use it when there's no sunlight. I must admit, without mentioning the battery, my comment really really sounds dumb 😂😂😂
We found grunkle stan
Would be even better if he was living in Washington!
Lol this is what I was thinking
@@TheHamza5788Isn't Gravity Falls in Oregon tho
@@DantheManZ-wn6zgyes it is
@@DantheManZ-wn6zg Oops, my bad!
Bro wasn’t lying though 💀
This man is not just a scammer. He is a *professional* scammer.
His work is not a bunch of money schemes, it's a carefully curated craft.
If this life long scammer immediately started a podcast as soon as he got out of jail I wonder what that says about podcasts lol
Like a scam, not all of them will payout but when they do its easy money
Tbf there isn't really any money in podcasts unless you do annoying political stuff or get big enough to get sponsorships.
@@ethanklee9041Sponsorships are pretty big money
I mean the same as it says about books? Nothing really? It's just a medium
@@YolkieYolkyeah he thought he said something profound or something lmaoooo
Bro tried to bamboozle everyone but got it back in return 😂
Tbh, he sounds like he does it for the giggles of it.
He's not a fraud, he's just a smartass.
I respect it
If you sell a product you know people wouldn't buy with proper information you are a scam artist.
Finding your videos in your shorts feed is so much better than just going to your channel. It's like when your favorite song comes up on the radio.
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this
I love a serial fraudster. Don't know what it is but they're so funny
This dude got caught so many times and even wrote the book on how to catch him in the act and still couldn't help himself lmao
@@96gecs almost like he was proving that people failed to learn their lesson
@@SonicBoone56 in a sense, he didn't either bc he kept getting caught
It's like an addiction on a sense. You could make money the easy way or your could work a dead end job that people probably know who you are
He really was a champ. Never gave up once 😂
“And now runs a podcast”
The final evolution of all ne’er-do-wells
My man's addicted to fraudulence
The fact the people didn’t have a case is messed up
The courts at there best
He presumably covered his ass really well with the ad wording.
But it probably does fall a bit under the problem this country has with blaming people for being fooled.
Honestly I'd laugh my ass off if I ordered a solar powered dryer, and got a clothesline. I'd deserve it 😂
You can't make an artist stop painting.
I remember him! He's the reason why I knew to never just hand out your social security number.
Bro just couldn't stop scamming 💀
The man who trolled the world
He really sounds like a typical influencer.
This guy seems like the type of person who would be a great friend, but at the same time annoys everyone he meets.
For Steve, certainly The Joker's phrase applies:
"It's not about money, it's about sending a message"
The message being that he loves to con people, maybe? Idk
Such a simple way to dry clothes. Makes them smell good too.
He didn't rob banks or scam old people out of millions like modern phone scammers. He just did a bit of trolling.
“…and now runs a podcast”
Yah, that checks out 😂
I thought you were going to say he's an California congressman.
He's not the first! When I first saw an ad like his, it was $20 or less in the 60's. My father actually bought one to teach me a lesson. It's a lesson I won't forget... I got stuck hanging the clothes on the new line to pay him back.
I love it!
This dude is such a ludicrous tomfool, he probably cackles instead of regular laughing
Ah the gold old 90s, where they never met a scam they didn’t like.
Man, he was ahead of his time. If he had waited until 2015+ to sell his "solar powered clothes dryer" he woulda really made bank, lol. Heck, he could have called it a "solar and wind powered clothes dryer" because technically the wind plays a role too!
Back in the 70's, a friend told me about a guy who ran ads in the underground papers, offering "portfolios of co-eds in various positions". He priced them at $5 and would only take cash, sent to a PO box he'd taken out under an assumed name. What the eager buyers didn't know was that he would go around to department stores and pick up bunches of those weekly mini-catalogs of the new outfits that were on sale, and that is what he'd send out. Technically he hadn't scammed them - the multi-page flyers did feature co-eds in various positions. Just like the people who received those clotheslines, it was their own assumptions that had ripped them off!
The key here is to think critically and not be stupid
I LOVE my solar powered clothes dryer. Mine is actually a hybrid, using wind as well. I’ve been saving $30 per month all spring and summer using that instead of my electric dryer!!! Seriously, 9 out of 10…not QUITE a perfect score only because sometimes it rains unexpectedly and re-dampens the clothes.
Bonus points that close dried outside on a clothesline smell so fresh and good!
Fun fact, Fastow, the ex CFO of enron, financial giant that ruined the lives of thousands if not millions due to ethics issues, does a speech on corporate ethics. It's like watching a man brag about what he did under the guise of remorse.
He's no doubt an expert in his craft, so that kinda ads to his credibility to his book 😅
Modern advertisements in a nutshell. The whole industry basically copied this guy's homework
What interestingly distinct features this man has!
Who tf had time to file a lawsuit over $50?
Bernie Madoff.
Back then before inflation, everyone.
As soon as I saw "solar powered clothes dryer" I just knew that it would be a clothesline.
Saul Goodman would be proud of this guy
Fun fact: the eyepatches worn by pirates were used not to cover an egregious injury, but rather so transitioning from the upper deck to the dark lower decks of the ship, which the eyepatch was removed so the eye, now used to the dark, could see much better.
By this logic, I am selling analog antique replica but functioning NVGs for much cheaper than most new models
him: "we do a little trolling~"
cops: "sir you committed grand larceny"
most people don't have the steel beams on which clothes lines go, so it was false advertising because he didn't send them the whole thing.
You don't strictly need the metal poles. Trees or even a couple conveniently spaced walls can work.
@@ZeldaTheSwordsman my point is that he wasn't sending the entire set, and could still get in trouble over the charges.
Customers ended up saving thousands on price, maintenance, repairs, electricity, interest on installments...
Why is commiting fraud against someone called defrauding? It should be called enfraudulation.
People are so serious to fall for that !
Bro isn't a conman, he's the greatest sales pitcher ever
He really can't help it to commit some tomfooleries
When my dad was a kid, one of the neighbors fell for “how to cut your heating bills in half! only 19.99!” A cheap-ass pair of plastic scissors 😆
It was sold as solar and wind powered, also came with apple seeds and clothes pins
I mean, to be fair, someone who's an expert on committing fraud is probably a pretty good guy to tell you how to avoid it.
"You're Slippin Jimmy!"
OK I’m impressed. This is some Reagan Arataka level shit
Proof shows like the view don’t vet literally anything.
The only criminal thing there is charging 50 dollars for a clothesline rope. lol
Dude bamboozled literally everyone
This is just playing in the background as I make Mac n cheese at 12 am
Well he wasn't technically wrong, clothesline is indeed solar powered clothes dryer
Man really is a menace that refuses to be stopped
Bro that "solar powered dryer" isn't even a scam thats god tier advertising
Can you imagine how weird the world must have been to him after coming out of jail?
The best dad joke ever told “solar powered clothes drying machine”
Real life Saul Goodman
He’s Saul Goodman if he didn’t become a lawyer
Man chose to never quit
Steve needs to read his book, he'd learn a lot from it
bro was the definition of trolling
He conned 20 years worth of housing and food from the state.
Imagine paying 50 bucks for a clothesline 😂
I am wondering how he didn't get sued for misleading product.
Im gonna steal that clothesline idea
I can't believe Walmart Adam Sandler would do this
I cannot FATHOM how people pre-internet actually purchased items without seeing so much as a photograph. they just took their word for it
Internet existed in the 1990s but it was just chatrooms, basic 2D solitaire games and porn.
You cannot fit a photograph into a cheap ad in the classified section of a newspaper or a yellow pages listing. Photographs just were not practical for most sellers. That said, there were some people who just refused to conduct business as a purchaser that way, and they were typically well off enough that they could afford to be picky.
man’s like Butters from south park when he gets hooked on NFTs
Bro is slippin’ jimmy 💀
Proof that anyone can start a podcast lmao
That jailtime is worth the nationwide mischief
Love the videos man! Keep them up
Technically he was telling the truth.
This feels like someone who’s bored playing The Sims.
Are we absolutely sure Steve isn’t just Al Pacino doing a side hustle?
"Become a paid subscriber"
He cant keep getting away with this
I bet he says if you read my book that wouldn't have happened. Its on sale now, 9.99!
Fine line between con and good advertising
“and now runs a podcast”
Why am I not surprised 😂
"and now runs a podcast"
Of course he does... should've seen that coming
We need to use that last line as the punchline for every dirtbag man out there. Rattle off the history of his years of bad behavior and/or prison time "...and now he has a podcast."
You would think the definition of "DEfrauding" someone would be preventing them from being frauded.
He doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on his career path.
Bro was feeling silly that day💀
Staight up pulled a Grunkle Stan💀
Bro just couldn’t help himself 😂
I’ve heard of one that was an advertisement for an electro-biological mixing machine. People were sent a spoon.