I am ashamed to say I got swindled out of $1000 this afternoon..
I was filling petrol in my car and these two guys in a white van next to me asked me if I wanted to buy a 3D projector. They were wearing those shiny yellow vests and had a delivery clipboard and said the factory made some mistake and gave them an extra system and it was valued at over $5k for the set and said he didn't want it but I could have it for $800.
He showed me the box had something showing an rrp of like $3499 and stupidly I didn't stop to question his story an thought it was a bargain. He then offered me this speaker set as well for an extra few hundred.

I went online when I got home and searched google for this brand and came across several sites with people talking about the scam. My wife was already pissed at me for buying it without discussing with her first, fuck she is gonna give me the silent treatment badly when she finds out what happened..

Normally I am not such a retard but these two dudes were very convincing, and I am embarrassed that I got duped by it but if this info saves one of u guys from the same fate then it's worth it to put this thread out there..
Still can't believe I fell for it.. Fuck

let me guess.

at first its pppsssssst wanna buy a brand new still in the box 3d projector, they have accidentily loaded one extra onto the van, and fuck their boss.

then in the back of their van they show you one out of the box.
you agree and as they are boxing it up again you are distracted for a split second as they switch boxes, you watch him bag the box, they are all smiles and away.

you open the box for a sneaky peak, and your fucking delighted with yourself, until you see youve paid a grand for 2 or 3 telephone directories.

am i close.


Its an old scam thumbboy, usually done with expensive one off items.
you were lucky really as theres usually 2 or 3 of them and only one of you.
if you rumble them they will give you a kicking and move on..


to my eternal shame i used to love the con in my youth.
not that those kind of cons would work on the island for long it to tiny.

i had no qualms selling couterfit goods to tourists tho.
until my shop was impounded by weights and measures.
they sent in someone to buy the products.
i was shrewd i only ever keep a few items in the shop,
on that occassion it was fake reebok shell siuts.
they only got one other out of the shop and the 2 they paid by cheque for £96, i cashed their cheque along with my takings
and would have just played dumb had they objected, never heard another word from them, i told them i bought 6 pieces from a street vendor who came in my shop with them, and they looked real to me mr honest etc etc etc, i only bought them to add colour to my window display etc etc.

truth is i paid 800 cash for 100 items in the airport car park in liverpool, and got straight back on the plane with them.
i thought for sure the shit would hit the fan if the mistress from king williams college ever cottened on as i had sold hee a batch of 40, which i generously discounted down to 39.99
from 47.99.{i thought it fucking hilarious at the time, 40 of these rich kids strutting around in their fake rebooks}

£40 mark up per item was just too tempting, and i only got rumbled right at the end.
i played dumb when asked for previous sales details whether it was cheque etc, and claimed they were cash sales on the other 3 siuts i admitted to selling.
i got a mild ear bashing about buying stock from unverifiable sources etc etc.

it was the guy from inter-sports down the street who reported me as it tuned out he told them i was selling cheaper than he could buy, they were good fakes mind as he thought they must be knock off for me to be selling so cheap.


then there were the fake frank thomas aqua packs 1 TT fortnight, made a killing on them

and i had a guy who worked for duke marketing running the video banks, he would bring in 200 of his own blank tapes and run them thru, and he charged me £4,00 a video.

3 years in a row i sold 200 during tt week.
then the shit hit the fan, the guy who worked for them got sacked, as legally there wasnt much they could do, as only the cardboard inlay was the only thing stolen by him.

me, i just showed them a reciept for a video rental for the fortnight and said some guy came in and offered me a dozen different tapes, so i bought them of him and just had them playing in my window display to attract the punters to view
my TT T shirt colloction, and at the end of the week i put a for sale price on the vids of 9.99 just to get rid of them.
whereas i had a bootful sitting in my car outside at the beginning of tt fortnight, and just kept replacing any that were bought out of the window display.

i always had a great blag sorted before i started.

anyway happy days, but just memories now.

when did you realise you had been conned and they had pulled a switch on you.

how long.

and did you look around for them in any other district.

these kind of scams only really work on the young, did you have the cash on the hip at the time, or did they wait for you to go and get it.

that was just the tip of the iceburg benny, but enuff said, you got the drift.

i once gave a market staller i had seen around for years some stock on tick {£1200}.

never saw the fucker again, i knew his missus and his son, and where they lived.

but he had just touched a few people like me up for stock and dissapeared on the ferry with it for a new start.
would of broken his arm if i would of been able to find him at the time, i was livered.

the beauty about buying and selling on a island benny, is the locals have to pay full RRP on everything they buy, until sales time.

so it was irrelevant to the sale price what the purchase price was, as once the stock was here, it was worth what it was worth.

for instance levi 501s.
i could buy them for £10 a pair, i used to go to joe bloggs main warehouse in manchester, and out the back there were great big bins of boutique returns, i would trawl thru those bins and find jeans that were just end of lines etc, still in their bags.

bring them back home and i could sell them all day long for £40 a pair, as the were 50 and 60 pound rrp items.

hardly any stock was dodgey, just well sourced and hand picked.

here is some consolation thumbboy.


Has anyone heard about the 2 speaker scammers from Melbourne that were found tied up naked in the middle of a supermarket parking lot with 2 of their shoddy tweeters shoved up their asses? Surprised it hasn't made the news yet.

anyone here hear about them.

read this lot.


http://www.scamshield.co...Australia&article=1


all of them thought they were buying knock off gear, and ripping some company off.

turns out it was them getting ripped off, but they just dont see the irony.

they were prepared to grasp with both hands what they believed to be stolen goods on the cheap, not giving a second thought for the person who was alledgedly being stolen from.

no you wouldnt of seen them later, theyed be in the pub, theyed just had a $1000 touch.


you will laugh about it alot over your whole life thumbboy.
your mates will never forget.

and your missus wont hold it over you forever, just every time you argue over money for the next 10 years, after that inflation has weakened her arguement to much.

Damn.. sorry to hear that dude
they're very professional the way they do it huh
I haven't had the heart to even connect mine up and test the thing out yet to be honest.. do you know if the thing even works at all?

but welcome to the forum though man..
and dont feel too bad, it can happen to anyone, but I doubt either of us will ever fall for something like this ever again...
PS thanks for the details, I dunno what I'd do now. Was just gonna chalk it up to a life lesson, how about u, what do u plan to do?

I still haven't set mine up yet, I heard from someone else that bought one that it worked pretty well, but I also read online that they are a fire hazard so big warning - if you use the thing, make sure you dont leave it on unattended or turned on overnight or anything like that.

The other thing I read is that the contact details in the manual, it's like a ghost address so there's no way to contact them about repairs or replacement parts. They basically said that once it breaks down it's an expensive paperweight

Sux that this thing is still going around, I thought these dudes in the van would have been stabbed already by an angry customer by now
Good to know the surround system works well though so it's not a total loss
Let me know how u go with it tho, hopefully there's a way for u to get it working again..

Sorry to hear that. Nah the two guys who sold it to me were Lebanese I think.
Just be careful to turn it off when not in use cos I read it's a fire hazard

yeah this things seems to be happening everywhere.. there's a few of these global scams, I am actually surprised it's still going on and that they haven't caught the ppl behind it yet.
yeah I was considering selling mine too for a while just for a few hundred but couldn't be bothered, will just use it for a while until it breaks down and then get rid of it.

hey DKNZ Welcome! and good job spotting the scam and keeping ur money!!
I still after all this time haven't used mine.. if anything it was a valuable life lesson that anything too good to be true, probably is..
Sounds like it could be the same guys that sold em to me, the whole thing sounds very similar to how it went down with me.
I won several $K betting online a few mths after it happened though so it more than made up for the loss, still kinda pissed off at myself for falling for it though..
Thanks for taking the time to sign up and post about it though, I was just wondering the other day if those guys may have been caught by the police, or stabbed after ripping off one person too many, but I guess not lol