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In some aspects what they are doing is legal. We have no way of knowing what it costs for these speakers to be produced, and they are still selling the product.

what makes it illegal is that they are putting up false pretenses by placing a monitary amount on the front of the box, like Retail 4500 under the barcode. Like that is going to be on a cardboard box. The other thing is most everytime you can only pay with cash and they do not give you a receipt, even if you ask for one. This is fraudulent business practice and can be prosecuted.

I think the ebay route is the best way to sell this product, cause Ebay will automatically give you a receipt. That is about the only way you can get any kind of promise that you aren't going to be scammed completely

[quote="NorthQuad"]Haha, I was approached by a guy selling home speakers from his van outside a beer store in my old town. It's a small town and I knew he wasn't from the area. So I figured they were stolen and he was trying his luck where nobody knew him. The two towers he was selling looked fairly nice actually. He offered me a deal of $400 for the pair as he just needed enough money for gas and food until he got paid. Both my friend and I declined.
So, over a year goes by and I'm at this chicks uncles house. She was babysitting her nefews and a friend and I were keeping her company. As I'm sitting there watching tv I noticed some nice speakers planted on each side of the tube. I just sat there wondering why they looked so familiar. Than I look over at the chick and say, "Those speakers look really familiar."
Her face went completely white. She even had these strange dimples on her cheeks form and she looked completely freaked. At that same moment I remembered and figured out they were the same speakers the guy was trying to sell me. I then told her why they looked so familiar. She was so relieved she nearly farted I think.
I guess her uncle bought them off the guy the same day he tried selling them to me. The whole family had given her uncle shit because they figured the speakers were stolen and that sooner or later he was going to get busted with them. The chick thought for a few seconds they had been stolen from me and her uncle was about to go down. That's why she was freakin' out.
It was pretty funny. But I'm glad I didn't buy them. One speaker sounded really scratchy when I tested them. I just had to find out if I had missed a good deal. Plus, my conscious would be going non stop worrying about the possibility of them being stolen.[/quote]
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Same thing happened to my friend... he bought them cause they "looked good"

ummm my response "Ok... what good are speakers that only look good and sound like crap? Other than just being eye candy there is no reason to have em"

Sucks but those white van scam people are dicks and the next time i see em in the city i'm calling the cops on them...

[url=http://http://cgi.ebay.com/GENESIS-MEDIA-LABS-G-506-home-theater-system_W0QQitemZ190230599827QQihZ009QQcategoryZ1499QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]http://http://cgi.ebay.com/GENESIS-MEDIA-LABS-G-506-home-theater-system_W0QQitemZ190230599827QQihZ009QQcategoryZ1499QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]


[url=http://cgi.ebay.com/GENESIS-MEDIA-LABS-IM66-HOME-THEATER-SYSTEM-IM-66-IPOD_W0QQitemZ270247276071QQihZ017QQcategoryZ1499QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]http://cgi.ebay.com/GENESIS-MEDIA-LABS-IM66-HOME-THEATER-SYSTEM-IM-66-IPOD_W0QQitemZ270247276071QQihZ017QQcategoryZ1499QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]


[url=http://cgi.ebay.com/NIB-Genesis-G-608-2000-Watt-Surround-Sound-System_W0QQitemZ270247554708QQihZ017QQcategoryZ32861QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]http://cgi.ebay.com/NIB-Genesis-G-608-2000-Watt-Surround-Sound-System_W0QQitemZ270247554708QQihZ017QQcategoryZ32861QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]


And an EBAY review...Classic!!!

[url=http://reviews.ebay.com/Kirsch-Theatre-Research-DiVinci-amp-White-Van-Speakers_W0QQugidZ10000000002467097]http://reviews.ebay.com/Kirsch-Theatre-Research-DiVinci-amp-White-Van-Speakers_W0QQugidZ10000000002467097[/url]

Man I checked out some of the sites and they really go all out, for the scam.

I kinda feel sorry for people who don't know any better.

Tim

Oh, and check this out [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speakers[/url]

The white van scam has hit Milwaukee before. My uncle was telling me one day how this guy came up to him at a gas station selling these "nice looking" speakers. I think the guy had my uncle totally convinced because he was telling me that the speakers would have been a great price, but he didn't buy them because he thought they were stolen.

They must make a killing at it. Lots of people just can't help themselves when they're offered such a 'great deal.'

Funny Kev, if I remember correctly, (which hardly happens these days) the guy selling the speakers also had a white colored van. Mabey white sells more.

Those appear to be stamped baskets too LOL.

Northquad, about 8 years ago I had some guys in a white minivan pull up next to me at my bank and try to sell me tower speakers. They claimed to be installing systems in new houses and the owner "decided not to use these" so they had to sell them cheap. They flipped out a catalog and tried to convince me they were "top of the line". I laughed and told them to take their scam elsewhere. They tried to laugh it off and question why I thought it was a scam, but I just got in my car and drove off.

A similar thing happened after I moved to Colorado and while at a stoplight some guys in a random white minivan asked me if I was interested in some "high quality closeout speakers from someone who decided they didn't want them". This is a well-known scam across the US and I'm sure hundreds of people have fallen for it. The speakers are cheap ass $50 to $100 per pair towers that they try to sell for $200 and up.