hey guy! wanna buy some speakers?

IndiEP · 02-15-2005

I'm walking out of NAPA (osseo) this afternoon and about to get in my car when this guy pulls up and starts yelling at me. I assume hes asking for directions but instead he trying to sell me speakers. My first though is they're stolen. I decline, he starts saying that hes got over 2K worth of home theater equipment that he was supposed to deliver and they gave him to much so now he has to "unload it." Yeah, now its definitely stolen.
He keeps trying to sell this crap to me and I'm getting pissed 'cause he won't leave me alone so I just get into my car, get his license plate #, call the cops, go home, microwave a burrito.

tpunx99GSX · 02-15-2005

OMG i had the same guy ask me that a while ago (still in MN) except that it was near stillwater. He used the EXACT same line.

Raptor · 02-15-2005

I have had that happen here and in WA. It is a common scam. They are not always stolen, there are a lot of them that are just cheap knockoffs of high end systems that the guys are trying to sell at a profit. Still a scam.

AJ · 02-15-2005

I had that happen to myself and Eric O (I can't remember who else made that trip) when we where gasing up near Elite before heading out to a Michigan Rally 2 years back. It was some guy with some straight up bling watches though.

**scheides** · 02-15-2005

yea, I think those guys usually are dealing cheapo knock-offs. They are absolute garbage, though, and while a knock-off watch is kinda cool, a knock-off speaker will definitly sound like ass. Tell him you'll buy the whole load from him & to meet you @ mcdonalds in an hour (b/c you have to go to the atm). heh heh heh...

-c

IndiEP · 02-15-2005

I figure if the cops ever catch up to him they can sort things out. If it is stolen now they've got someone to beat info out of. If its cheap knock offs, he can get a good scare trying to prove he owns it. Wonder how the the police deal w/situations like that if it is knock off junk. HopefullyJDM can chime in.

2003eclipse · 02-15-2005

Wonder how the the police deal w/situations like that if it is knock off junk. Hopefully 2003eclipse can chime in.[/QUOTE]

Well seeing as im not a cop, and your talking about my best friend JDM

AJ · 02-15-2005

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doesn't even go on this website due to ass holes like yourself.

Seriously? Why was that needed. He make no remark deserving of that here.

JustROLLIN · 02-15-2005

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Originally Posted by DSMStyle

Seriously? Why was that needed. He make no remark deserving of that here.

Sorry Joey, but I have to agree with AJ on this one, a lil out of line.

Anyway, I have had those guys come up to me down near the U of M campus a couple years back. They used the, "I asked for 6 speakers and they gave me 6 pair" line. I told the guy to get lost and split.

ABV · 02-15-2005

Right after I moved to Minenapolis (late winter/early spring) I was doing something outside, and a guy pulls up in his car and asks if I want to buy an air conditioner. I'm like "No thanks", and he says something and drives off.

I also had a guy walking around last summer trying to sell some boots. They were timberlands or something.

**JET** · 02-15-2005

I know of 2 buddies that have bought speakers from the same type of deal. The speakers actually sound really good and handle quite a bit of power. For the money, they are pretty damn good.

tpunx99GSX · 02-15-2005

^^^^
Jet was the guy selling the speakers in the truck.

520Talon · 02-15-2005

I've got a buddy who bought them as well and they wheren't that bad. Indi, trying to sell stuff like that isn't illegal. It is no different from when I used go around hassling people in my Schwans truck. We used to sit outside the tall government housing in North Minneapolis with the radio up hustling people for food stamps on food stamp day.

The line I always heard when approched is 'I was supposed to get 6 speakers and the gave me 6 pairs!!!'.

2003eclipse · 02-15-2005

I took what he said as being cocky

A//// Guy · 02-15-2005

How is what he said being cocky?? He wanted to know what or if there are any laws out there agains fake stuff. All he said is maybe someone who knows more can chime in... being a cop JDM might have had some knowledge... but he left because he got in a bad mood so whatever...

**Halon** · 02-16-2005

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Originally Posted by 2003eclipse

doesn't even go on this website due to ass holes like yourself.

oh WAH, tell him to grow up. Now you're the one talkin about MY bestfriend. If you knew Austin even the slightest, you'd know he's by far not cocky, and probably the most polite person I've ever known, and carries no beef what-so-ever.

TalonFiero · 02-16-2005

The Bloomington speaker guy is famous around here. Drives around in a white van, still see him cruising the parking lots around Lyndale and 98th to this day. First time he approached me was in 1995, swear its the same guy. And yes they are cheap knockoffs, not stolen, that he sells for like an 80% profit. They talk about the bloomington speaker guy on KFAN every once in a while, I think Dubay or Allen was approached back when KFAN studios were located in Bloomington.

Jim

2003eclipse · 02-16-2005

Well I took care of it and apoligized. I thought he was one of the people ripping on JDM for being a cop in previous threads. Its taken care of and over.

IndiEP · 02-17-2005

I haven't been on here in a day and it looks like I missed something. I don't know what was said or interpreted but I meant to say JDM, I couldn't remember if it was him or 2003eclipse that worked for a police dept. Just looking for some insight due to his knowledge of the law.