@@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
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
@@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 😂😂😂
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, 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!
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
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
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!
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.
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!
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.
Of course he runs a podcast.
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Ye, lol
Yep, exactly what I said. Like, of course that's how this ends.
bro was born with the troll genes 😭😭
Troll DNA
Jew*
😂😂😂
@@FREEDOM80085based
@@FREEDOM80085slow down on the racism my dude
“And now runs a podcast” made sense
and the name of the podcast lol
accurate
"Scam Junkie" very subtle lol
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
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!
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.
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!
That is the most hilarious scam ever
🤣
@@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 😂😂😂
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.
Bro wasn’t lying though 💀
Tbh, he sounds like he does it for the giggles of it.
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
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 😂
You can't make an artist stop painting.
He really was a champ. Never gave up once 😂
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
@@SockyNoob 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
“And now runs a podcast”
The final evolution of all ne’er-do-wells
He didn't rob banks or scam old people out of millions like modern phone scammers. He just did a bit of trolling.
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.
@@sevret313he did provide information.
There was no fraud. People were just idiots.
@@GyroCannon If you knowingly mislead your customer then you're a fraudster.
@@GyroCannon No, if you know that people will get the wrong idea about your product then you are a fraudster. Please stop excusing bad behaviour.
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.
My man's addicted to fraudulence
“…and now runs a podcast”
Yah, that checks out 😂
It was sold as solar and wind powered, also came with apple seeds and clothes pins
I remember him! He's the reason why I knew to never just hand out your social security number.
This guy seems like the type of person who would be a great friend, but at the same time annoys everyone he meets.
Honestly I'd laugh my ass off if I ordered a solar powered dryer, and got a clothesline. I'd deserve it 😂
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 😆
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!
I thought you were going to say he's an California congressman.
Bro just couldn't stop scamming 💀
He really sounds like a typical influencer.
This dude is such a ludicrous tomfool, he probably cackles instead of regular laughing
People are so serious to fall for that !
Proof shows like the view don’t vet literally anything.
What interestingly distinct features this man has!
Ah the gold old 90s, where they never met a scam they didn’t like.
The man who trolled the world
As soon as I saw "solar powered clothes dryer" I just knew that it would be a clothesline.
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
I always heard about this but never knew the details! That is so fascinating! I thought it was an urban legend
Modern advertisements in a nutshell. The whole industry basically copied this guy's homework
"You're Slippin Jimmy!"
him: "we do a little trolling~"
cops: "sir you committed grand larceny"
Technically he was telling the truth.
I love solar powered clothing dryers
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.
He really can't help it to commit some tomfooleries
you didn't need to tell me he had a podcast, i could tell
Well he wasn't technically wrong, clothesline is indeed solar powered clothes dryer
You either die a hero, or live long enough to run a podcast.
OK I’m impressed. This is some Reagan Arataka level shit
I bet he says if you read my book that wouldn't have happened. Its on sale now, 9.99!
Why is commiting fraud against someone called defrauding? It should be called enfraudulation.
Steve needs to read his book, he'd learn a lot from it
He conned 20 years worth of housing and food from the state.
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'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!
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!
This is just playing in the background as I make Mac n cheese at 12 am
Who tf had time to file a lawsuit over $50?
Bernie Madoff.
Back then before inflation, everyone.
Proof that anyone can start a podcast lmao
If he had worded it slightly differently he probably could have gotten away with it
Straight to the point. Always interesting. Great content!
Thank you!
I’m excited for his next sentence. I wonder what shenanigan he’ll pull next is
Can you imagine how weird the world must have been to him after coming out of jail?
He just can’t help himself
If the customers fell for that, it's fully on them
"and now runs a podcast"
Of course he does... should've seen that coming
Staight up pulled a Grunkle Stan💀
Saul Goodman would be proud of this guy
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 only criminal thing there is charging 50 dollars for a clothesline rope. lol
man’s like Butters from south park when he gets hooked on NFTs
I mean.. The man has himself a career basically
Bro is slippin’ jimmy 💀
Imagine paying 50 bucks for a clothesline 😂
Man chose to never quit
wow $50 for a clothes line is steep...but clothes dried in the sun do smell good
“ and now has a podcast “ is the most appropriate way that story could’ve ended 😂
we gotta watch out for his next trick
I can't believe Walmart Adam Sandler would do this
The key here is to think critically and not be stupid
Those guys should have read the book 💀
The best dad joke ever told “solar powered clothes drying machine”
I am wondering how he didn't get sued for misleading product.
Just return the clothesline...
Real life Saul Goodman
King 👑
"To prevent fraud you must become the fraud"
-Sun Tzu, The Art of Fraud Prevention
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.
Fine line between con and good advertising
Im gonna steal that clothesline idea
Man really is a menace that refuses to be stopped
Bro isn't a conman, he's the greatest sales pitcher ever
Dude bamboozled literally everyone
Not a scam. True. I’d laugh then ask for a refund 😂
Love the videos man! Keep them up