My White Van Speaker Experience

[jbrillo]

I remember back in the summer of '93, two guys in a white van were trying to sell me some "high-end" speakers at a great price because they were "accidentally" shipped too many speakers & it didn't cost them anything so they wanted to sell them cheap(~$200) just to make some extra money. I was stopped at a stop light!! When the light turned green, they kept up with me trying to tell me I needed to buy them to be "cool" or some stupid crap like that. I knew it was a scam so I dropped the hammer in the old 5-point-O and took off. I was 18 and driving around in a modded Mustang so I guess they thought I was rich & stupid. They would've been wrong on both counts!!! I'll never forget that day because all I could think to myself was, "Who would be dumb enough to buy speakers out of the back of a van?".


Gene,

Just out of curiosity, what JBL speakers did you sell to your uncle?

 

[gene]

Gene,

Just out of curiosity, what JBL speakers did you sell to your uncle?

A pair of LX-44's which he abused by turning the bass up too high and leaving them outside in the screen room where the woofer surrounds dry rotted. It broke my heart seeing my babies abused so badly and I learned my lesson NOT to sell cherished audio gear to people that don't appreciate/respect it

 

[Bluesmobile]

The White Van speakers scam has been around for a long time: The year was 1989 and I was living in the Bay Area, CA just out of high school looking for work. I went into a job interview for a position I found in the classifieds section of the newspaper. I walked into a sparsley furnished warehouse unit--the kind of operation that looked like they could pick up and vacate within an hour-- and immediately saw the product: Loudspeakers, everywhere, stacked to the ceiling. I was told that the job was selling speakers. I left and never went back. I knew exactly what the deal was, especially after I had watched a prime time magazine show story about the scam on a major network. I was even solicited and pushed to buy speakers out of a white van sometime before I showed up for the job interview and saw that it was the White Van crew.

Years later a roomate of mine proudy displayed a pair of speakers he told me he bought for cheap from some guys in a white van. I rolled my eyes and sighed.

 

[rtcp]

I knew it was a scam so I dropped the hammer in the old 5-point-O and took off.

Forgive my off-topic-ness, but your 5-point-0 is actually a 4-point-9.

 

[emorphien]

I always thought it was the 5-point-slow

 

[rtcp]

I always thought it was the 5-point-slow

Well, if it were actually a 5.0L, then you're pun-ny wit would make perfect sense.