Hey man, do you want some speakers???

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I got them for free

Ummm . . . . I don't live here. I'm on my way back to Austin.

Really?? I live in Austin too!! Just pull over and I'll throw these in the back of your truck!!

[/rolling up window] Ummm . . . I appreciate it man, but no thanks. [/rolling up window]

These are great speakers!!

Actual conversation that took place yesterday on the corner of Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd outside the Galleria.

I know this was a scam, but does anyone know someone who has fallen for this?
 
Here we go again.
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you have to respect the speaker guy situation after hearing the meat guy situation posted a couple weeks ago.

never seen the meat guy.

my friend still has a pair of those speakers at his house from like 12 years ago. wonder how long they have had business going.
 
Last month / Walmart @ Beltline & Monfort / guy driving a nice tahoe / "home theater system"

What's the scam? You say yes and they do what exactly?
 
They're really, really ****** speakers that aren't worth the five dollars you pay for them.

Spoke to one of the steak guys a few days ago, driving a white pick-up of course.
 
My best friend in high school had a pair of those speakers. It was a never ending source of mockery. I don't know why he kept them around.
 
My fiancee fell for the steak sale. Thank God she didn't have more cash or we'd be swimming in tough fatty meat.
 
One of my friends went for the speaker scam while waiting at a west campus bus stop. He even let the guys drive him to an ATM.

$300 and the speakers didn't work. He still has them in the closet.
 
I was 17 and almost fell for the scam -- speakers, white van, the whole thing. I pulled into a parking lot, took a look, they were big speakers but aethetically looked like garbage. The reason I said no was because he said they were mistakenly loaded on to his truck and didn't show up on the bill of sale for his last stop and because he was drunk. So, a drunk guy essentially admitted he as selling stolen speakers. $300. I said nope.
 
Years ago in law school in Houston, guys would hang around the grocery store at Cullen & Polk selling speakers, televsions, etc. out of the trunk of their car.

I generally took a look to make sure they weren't selling MY speakers, TV, etc. (It was that kind of neighborhood) and walked away......
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My best friend fell for it a few years ago. He's seriously one of the smartest people I know so it was hilarious when I found out about it.
 
they approached me 3 weeks ago while i was at the atm at the bank of america @ 35 and 39th. two very rough looking guys. looked like the were fresh out of prison.

and it sounds like white vans are taboo with them. these guys were in a beat up grey ford van. after i said no, they drove across 39th and started harassing people people gas at shell.

they have tenacity and conviction. i admire that about them.
 
but that still doesn't explain why it's ALWAYS speakers. There are loads of ****** electronic products out there that don't work that you could sell for any reasonable discount from the store. But for some reason, it's always speakers.

And where do these non-functioning speakers come from? Is there a speaker chop-shop that refinishes old speakers, guts them except for the cone, and then puts them in a new cardboard box? Seriously, this perplexes me.
 
Its probably that you can't test speakers on the side of the road. Some people have electrical jacks in their cars and could plug in a tv to see if it worked or not
 
This seems like some kind of criminal franchise arrangement. I guess the franchise agreement requires them to drive white vans and only sell speakers. They may be test marketing ****** tv's in selected markets for a future wide scale rollout.
 
Had the scam tried on me back in HS. Had never heard about it before, but common sense told me not to buy anything from the dude. He WAS driving a white van. I think the deal with the white vans is that the scammers go and rent them from somewhere. That way, they dont have to drive their own car and a van is big enough to fit the speakers in. A white van also looks more official, as if it was a company van. It helps collaborate the guys story about why he has extra speakers. My best friend in HS actually bought 2 speakers from a scammer about the same time I turned the deal down. The speakers looked legit, but they blew out when he turned it up just a little. Some people have no shame in this world.
 
I've had the "white van speaker scam" tried on me at least twice (once at UFCU near Guad & 51st) and once at the Parmer Ln Randalls parking lot. Both times it was an honest to god white van. I dunno why it's always a white van.
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It's kind of funny actually.
 
had a friend who bought some out on the construction site we were working on about 8 years ago. No white van just a llittle black truck, he spent 300 on them and they worked great and still work to this day. However this is in mansfield, tx. Maybe they work differently up this way.
 
The year was 1995. I was at the Chevron station on Guadalupe and about 40th or so (by Texas French Bread). For whatever reason, I had been thinking about buyung some speakers. Sure enough, 2 guys in a white van are there. Long story short, I got 2 "kick ***" speakers for $60. And yes, 12 years later, they still work.

And yes, I've regretted dropping that $60 almost every day of my life since.
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When I was in highschool back in 91 they tried to get me. Little did they know it wasnt that I was too smart. I just didnt have any money. They were so pissed. I told them 10 times I didnt have any money for anything like this.

I could barely afford gas in my car and the haircut i had just paid for.
 
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