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Originally Posted by itsAlex

I know many of you have heard of the white van speaker scam in the past, as have I. It's never happened to me personally, until today however. Thankfully I was aware of it before my encounter today with these guys:

I was at a gas station by Dixie and Britannia. Right before I got into my car this dude in a big blue van yells at me, "Dude! I got some Bose speakers to give away! My boss accidentally put seven of them in my truck when I only needed five, so I have two and I don't know what to do with them!"

I was really hesitant, but then the guy said "I'll give you one for free!" So I pulled up next to him and I asked him to show me the speakers, instead he pulls out some outdated Best Buy flyer and he points to this sound system with the model number 'N70', it didn't even say Bose, it had some other brand on it that I'd never heard of before. Then he's like "I'll give it to you for $300, no $200!" I made up some lame excuse as to why I couldn't cough up the cash and I left.

I can't believe it actually happened to me, I thought this speaker scam stuff stopped happening. At least I was aware of it so I knew it wasn't legit, I mean the dude couldn't even prove that the speakers were "Bose".

A few years ago:

-I got scammed by this exact thing.
-Found out when I got home
-I was FURIOUS (and i'm not a small guy) so I went hunting
-I found them, chased them through traffic, pulled in front of them in the middle of a 4 lane busy street
-Jumped out (and lost my shit)
-Literally scared them so badly they gave me my money back
-Threw the speakers out in the road and sped off
-Won the day.