The Speakers in the Parking Lot Scam
A few weeks back, I finally had this happen to me. I went to the mall one morning, and while I was looking for a parking spot, a guy in a van starts talking about speakers and if I was interested. I continued driving away, shaking my head as he spoke. All well and good.
Later in the day, I had to go back for something. As I'm loading my truck, parked in front of patio Starbucks, a different guy and his partner pull up and start the same schtick.
Since I'd kind of been steaming about it all day because I didn't challenge the guy at the time, I snap - lose it. I started ripping on them for their cheap crap, sight unseen. "Oh, things have changed and improved now. Our gear..." he starts. Now I'm really ticked and started thinking about all the poor uninformed that have ever been ripped off by this guy and his type. I start talking about tech specs from enclosures to drivers to soldering. I mentioned that in all likelihood my old bookshelf Paradigms were probably 100x better than anything he had. The driver's still trying to sell me, and his partner is now encouraging him to get the H out of there, because driver hasn't seen it yet, but now I've been ragging on him for a few minutes we've gathered a bit of an audience. Finally they take off and we watched as they drove off the mall lot.
I was really angry because a good friend almost got burned a couple of months prior, but phoned me before she handed over the cash.
I swear every word is true.
What I can't believe is that there continue to be enough marks out there to make it worthwhile for these guys to continue to do what they do. It's our job, no, our responsibility, to stop this scam from happening to our friends and family.
Dismounting soap-box now.
Kruncher