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Feel free to call me a gullible twat, but I just bought some Definitive DST-303 speakers, which cost me £250. I was told they were worth £1,999 each. In retrospect, I was a fucking fool to believe such a thing. I bought them out of a white van, which makes me look like an idiot in the first place. I shouldn't have done it. Later I Googled the speakers, to see how much I could sell them for. (I asked and they didn't seem to be stolen). I found the speakers to be part of a hoax, after visiting this forum: I am just saying this so that no one else falls victim to the scam. Be wary of stuff you buy out of white vans. :) |
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ouch.. never ever visit Naples, man.. |
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do they work anyway ? |
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There was a white van in the grocery store parking lot last week trying to sell plasma screen televisions. I figure we'll see more of this as the depression worsens. |
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I asked and they didn't seem to be stolen hahahahaha, what |
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From what I read, they do work, but are certainly not worth the price people pay for them. The sides shake apparently and stuff like that. Prolly worth about £50 each, mebbe less. They came without wires though, so I haven't tried them out yet. Compared to one guy on the forum I didn't get off too badly- he paid £600 for his! |
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haha! I will make a mental note of that. :) Thing is, in a place foreign to me I would be expecting to be scammed. Here I was caught off guard... :'( |
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They had official looking T-shirts and order forms for the speakers. |
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nice pull! friend of mine once bought a video-camera like this, only to find out they had switched the bag and now there were two sacks of sugar in his camera-bag... |
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so you were just carrying £250 around randomly? please don't tell me you put your bank details down on the order form |
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They came without wires though, so I haven't tried them out yet. that's SOME risk |
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i am noticing a raising level of this kind of stuff too. example n.1: there were me and a friend eating munchies near a petrol station, at one point a car stopped in front of us and the guy who was driving babbled something i didn't understand. so he came down the car and said 'my cash card doesnt work, could you give me 5 euros to make some fuel?' and i said 'you want me to give you 5 euros to make fuel'. there were two girls in the back seats and when i look'd at them, they turned their heads on the other side. then the guy kept on crying 'cmon i know i am asking you a big favour, i'll give you my number, i'll manage you a coke snort' and shit like that, so i've lookd him in the eyes and said 'you're lucky cos you give me the benefit of the doubt and i don't give a fuck about money' and lend him the only banknote i had, 10 euros. then he jumped in the car and fly away w/o making any fuel. so my friend laughing at me said 'imagine if he's gonna buy some badly cut coke and die' and i said 'man i shouldn't have done it'. example n.2: the other day a granny stolen some broccoli that were in special offer from my mother's trolley. example n.3: the nearest tobacconist try to steal coins from the change, but to be honest he always did that, even before the crisis. |
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i did it too once.. the other day i turned down an armani suit though those guys kind of hypnotise you into thinking it's a great deal. i didn't really want the speakers, my room was way to small for it, they offered was a surround set. after not buying the suit i felt kind of guilty too, for letting such a deal go, hehe. i'm certain now it was an exact same scam though. |
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i put the things on e-bay and of course nobody bought them. so i just threw them out. i didn't want to be reminded using them as speakers with my computer or something |
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omg! this *exact* same thing happened to a friend of mine... like 5 or 6 years ago? even the van was a white van. the guys were making up a story and my friend paid 600 Euros for a pair. The fake speaker brand even had a fake website. |
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twas in Germany btw. |
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That's shit, dude. I feel your friend's pain. :( |
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Thanks! :) Yeah, I will really have to learn not to make big purchaces when not in the open air, with people I have never met before. That's the lesson I think we can all learn from this. :D But your friend must have been livid and really upset. How much did he pay for what he thought to be a video camera? |
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lol. One day I will be as cynical as you. Things like this scam seem to try to lead me into becoming cynical as people like you. But until I fall into the pit of pessimism that you are clearly fumbling blindly around in, I will dance in the sunshiney fields without a care in the world. ^^ |
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Lol- they were very pertinent anicdotes and each one made me rue human nature a little more. :( |
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by 2012 we'll have to eat people like you love, sorry |
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2012? I wish I had your patience. |
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You fell prey to one of the oldest scams in the book. Perhaps some cynicism would do you well... |
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other 'buyers' might have been in on it to help it appear genuine/good deal/etc |
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hehe, like in the hat-game scammers :) |
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i think he even paid em 1000 (thats one-thousand!) deutschmark back then. (bout 500€) cameras have been worth maybe 2000 dm back then. my other friend told him NOT TO DO IT. only thing i ever bought that was not the real deal was some 20€ (lira back then) of hashish, which turned out to be bark :D |
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There's a program in England called 'The Real Hussle'. I suggest you download them all and have a look. I'm selling the promo copy of the DVD set. It's not going to get released anymore so it's gonna be uber collectable. Let me know by e-mail if you're interested, I only want like £10 for it. |
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Remember, if the deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. I once went to one of those dodgy auctions held in the function room of my local pub and it was amazing how much junk was being shifted on unsuspected locals. The guys who do it work the crowd really well and enthusiasm just bounces from one another. I'll never forget this guy stood next to me who said "i've just spent £200 on a load of crap I don't need" Just keep a level head and don't open you're wallet unless you're 101% sure what you're buying it legit and worth it. |
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haha..i had the same thing 15 years ago! But I only paid like 150 euroos. two guys working " delivering speakers and equipment" told me " they had one pair to much and they had to sell it immediately cause they were going back to the store". I've kept the speakers for over 10 years and they were ok though. But that was indeed the last time I've ever bought anything out of a van. |
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haha..i bought a piece of wood thinking it was hashish in paris for 20 euroos..when i found out i ran after the guy but he was gone. |
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