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There is this one thats been around for a while..
These guys will drive around in un-marked vans and stop people at random, and offer then a "great deal" They have these "really high-end" speakers that they were given an extra set off by mistake, and will let you have them for really cheap since no-one will know.
They will often even have a classified ad selling the same speakers for like thousands of dollars, and they will let you have it for a few hundred.
Well, the box looks pretty, but the speakers are major pieces of crap. Worth $50 tops. The ad selling them for thousands? they placed it themseleves
They have updated it now, selling a "Home-theather package" my uncle got suckered into it for $200, when its worth about $50 tops, it doesnt even have a dolby digital decoder, just a 6 channel input.
I fell for that once.... :xx: They had the white van and everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildkat
Strippers
Selling phone cards off the street downtown
Subscriptions to video game sites
Paying for pornography
Ahh.. good old grifts. I'll have some later today.
Wildkat - you're in CT, right? I think that's really just a New England thing. I had people pull up with that stuff all of the time. You know when you see those things on the telephone poles? "Work from home! Earn blah blah blah!" That's the stuff they have you do. You buy those crappy stereos for cheap and then give people a line, confuse them, and then they pay an absurd amount of money for them.
Assembling things at your house
Stuffing envelopes at home
War in Iraq (ooh, time to catch some flak!)
Hehe. Let it begin!!! ;)
AHAHAHHAQuote:
Originally Posted by Calliander
One of my friends got caught up in a make-a-bead-necklace pyramid scam. What a fucking idiot. He had to make like a billion of the fucking things.
Three card monty is still top of the scam food chain in my eyes...
Getting people to bet on the results of a taped wrestling show. Easy fucking money.
Those people that walk around with bags full of old crap and try to sell it to you. You know, stuff like cologne, those little remote control cars, etc.
I only gamble on real sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy
I like the people that ask me to buy $50+ cologne in some parking lot. Yeah, let me just get the wad of 50's out of my pocket to pay you, you fucking idiot. I don't carry that much cash on me!Quote:
Originally Posted by K3V
Some fave scams and flams:
Retail prices for CDs
Theater popcorn (they make like a 3000% profit)
Car Insurance
AOL for Broadband (AOL in general)
Haunted Hayrides (gaaayyy)
In essence if you pay for an internet connection you are paying for porn anyway. :\Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Buying books at your college's book store.
A big fucking :nod: to retail CD prices and college texts.
Yeah, college bookstore prices suck. I wish they'd send me my financial aid checks before classes start so I could get books elsewhere.
retail used game prices
Dr. Phil
diets
how much bbobb's mother charges for a bj
I sometimes bet co-workers or acquaintances that I can cut an unopened drink bottle in half without spilling a drop from the bottle. maybe I'll make an .mpg of the trick.
Mr. Miyagi?
The Nigerian e-mail scam is the best.
Someone pulled up to me in a white van with that speaker thing when I was in school in Southern California, not New England.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calliander
Why must you turn this into a house of lies?
?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Dude post a vid, I'd kill to see that.
Sure, let me recharge my digicam's battery. I'll also have to find another knife that works cuz my last one broke :(
Someone who doesn't suck, which Karate Kid was that in? I want to say the first one, but they all blur together.Quote:
Originally Posted by 680x0
HA, Mr. Miyagi didn't need no knife.
I never actually saw a Karate Kid movie :o
Oh wait... Do you freeze it?
Free sex lines :rolleyes:
Nope. A normal unopened drink bottle and a sharp buck knife
not to mention the low prices (like 30-50% of new) they buy them back at, only to resell them used at 80% of new. As well as caping the number they buy back used, to ensure the sale of new books in stock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Regus
yeah 680x0 i would like to see that also..
Just at places like EB & Gamestop. There are few indy shops around here that don't charge over $30 for used games and they give about $25 in trade for the $30 ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Credit Card Fraud.
... :chunobi: ...
Don't ask.
More like credit card interest rates, certain people should go to hell for that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhydant
itunes and any other online music download sites you have to pay subscriptions for only to have a limit to how many songs you can have and have the nerve to load DRM crap that has no business being there in the first place.
I like the one where they send you an email that roughly says "Sorry for the inconvenience PayPal customer, but our computer records were wiped, can you please send us your details again by email so we can reset your account".
The classic schoolboy grift is to buy a book of raffle tickets and sell them to old people when there is no prize.
huh?! try that one again but in English, please.Quote:
Originally Posted by voltz
I GOT $10 THAT THE WATER WILL SPILL!
The best one I've ever heard of is these chicks come upto you and ask you to lick their tits. Naturally, you do, but then you pass out. They lace their boobies with a strong sedative, and once it knocks you out, they take anything of value that you have.
:wtf: That's a joke right?!
Here's one.
Printer companies don't put the printer cable you need in the box.
You have to buy printer cable. Oh, it's only $25.
The cable costs THREE DOLLARS.
Repeat with stereo equipment, tv's, etc.
On a related note, how you can get a color inkjet printer, with a set of cartridges for less than it costs to get refill ink cartridges down the line.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Also, Razor Blades.
Anything from an infomercial (and the cheap knock-off versions).
Anything advertised through spam mail and the crap that has to use pseudo-l33t speak to get you offers that you don't give a shit about.
Uh.... no. Not at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by voltz
That's why I always coat my tongue in wax! Seriously, where did you hear this happening?Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Someone posted a link here before to a news article about it. It happened in Japan, if I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundwave
yeah, it was somewhere in asia.
Also known as the "419". If I see one in my email, I'll put the sender on a block list.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Credit card interest rates can really suck- you start out with something reasonable like 9.9%, then BAM! You've now got 19.9%, 22.9%, or some other hyperridiculous rate.
What you get for used games is generally a joke. Resellers need some profit, but I think they go for a bit too much. If they're going to resell your $50 MSRP used game for $40, you should get a bigger piece of that- like $35. Five dollars in profit per used game is enough.
Those junk mailers seem to have learned how filters work, but I wish they'd learn why we use them. Defeating Mailwasher by deliberately misspelling a word in the subject doesn't change the fact that I'm not interested in their potential scam.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seven Force
Fucking Japanese, I swear they're alwoys on the forfront of this shit...it's great!Quote:
Originally Posted by FuryFox
Thats because you also replace the spray nozzle and such with the cartridge to keep your prints in top shape.Quote:
Originally Posted by K3V
Hah - that happened to me once in Toronto. Apparently the idea for that scam crosses national boundaries.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Why on earth would people buy speakers from a guy in van anyhow?
And why is it always a white van? Why not, say, a brown van?
You owe us that vid for this sin alone. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by 680x0
Most of the good stuff has already been suggested in this thread, so lemme just plug in:
Jehova's Witnesses/Seventh Day Adventists distributing flyers/magazines. I say this because it's impossible to turn them down, they will NOT f-ing leave your store of their own will until you take a copy or twelve of whatever their passing out. It's honestly the ultimate scam, they annoy you till you take one, and even after you do, they continue to blab on while you pretend to listen (or make threatening gestures with a knife).
and...
Websites like freedvds.com or freevideogames.com peddling being able to get a free DVD or game or what have you if you can rack up enough points. The thing is, it's virtually impossible to get ahold of enough points to get even the cheapest thing their offering without applying and being approved for a new credit card or signing up for something that WILL cost you money, so the you end up paying to get the 'freebie' anyway.
They're overcharging because you need the cartridges once you own the printer. If you believe producing print cartridges costs anywhere near what they charge for them, you're wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by NApOLm321
Like I said, it's like the old razor/razor blade scheme. Sell the razor for next to nothing, and charge an assload for the blades.
True, the nozzle is probably some run-of-the-mill injection moulded plastic. It's not like they pay pygmy Danish Inu's to hand craft them from the horn of a unicorn using a blunt pin made from Orichalcon. The most expensive piece in a inkjet cartridge would be the minimal electronics, and even they would be made for nix in a 3rd world country "free trade zone" .Quote:
Originally Posted by K3V
This happens a lot in Thailand. I think some parts of Hong Kong (maybe not now, but in the past)Quote:
Originally Posted by soundwave
Japan? Naaaah. Some girls don't have enough tit to get a mouthful. Some.
Hallmark. They charge $5 for a couple of cents worth of paper and ink that gets thrown away within a week.
A common street level scam is for a guy to bump into you, and pretend to drop his phone or glasses. They were broken/cracked to begin with, and he'll try to con you into paying for all or some of the repairs.