Sombody 'splain "White Van" To me
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bowtie427ss
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RevMen
The Reverend Menacer
My 25-ish cousin told me last weekend that he'd been approached by white van salesman a few times recently. He didn't understand that it was a long and widespread tradition and thought he just had unusual "luck" when it came to people trying to sell him what he assumed were stolen speakers.
tx_polkhead
Well-Known Member
let me splain... no there is too much let me sum up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
spl225
Super Member
"Hey! Are you interested in buying some great speakers at a great price? I'm an electronics installer. I just finished a custom installation in someones home theater. My boss gave me one pair of speakers too many. He didn't realize he did and I aint tellin' him. These are $3000 high end speakers. The Aural XTC- PB4U-69's. Check out the paperwork 
. I'm willing to sell them to you for $600." The trick is the speakers aint high end, aint worth $3000, and nobody familiar with high end equipment has ever heard of them. Worth closer to $100.
. I'm willing to sell them to you for $600." The trick is the speakers aint high end, aint worth $3000, and nobody familiar with high end equipment has ever heard of them. Worth closer to $100.
AnalogDigit
Realistic fan.
I never ran into them myself. I do see some brands people try to sell at the flea market.
Coytee
Super Member
Bismark, North Dakota...:scratch2:
Perhaps in your neck of the wood it's called the Brown Mule Speaker Scam?
budgetaudio6
Addicted Member
to sum it up....BING..BING...BING. CRACKLE CRACKLE FIZZLE!
Those that have heard them know what that tune up there is!
Those that have heard them know what that tune up there is!
poortom
Active Member
Bismark, North Dakota...:scratch2:
Perhaps in your neck of the wood it's called the Brown Mule Speaker Scam?
ROFLMAO. We are not QUITE that backwards here!
Happened to me around 1998 in a record store parking lot. As i was leaving and stuck at a red light a white van stopped next to me and the guy yelled out the window if I wanted to buy some speakers. I said no thanks and never looked back.
About 3 years later my friend experienced the white van while at the bank. The dude showed him some bullsh$t spec sheet and advertisement. Unfortunately my friend bit and shelled out 400 bucks. As soon as he told me what he got I asked if the dudes were in a white van. He said, "yeah how did you know?" I cringed as I explained that he was just duped.
Amazingly he had just bought a set of PSB Image 4T's a couple months earlier so i have no idea why he even considered buying more speakers.
About 3 years later my friend experienced the white van while at the bank. The dude showed him some bullsh$t spec sheet and advertisement. Unfortunately my friend bit and shelled out 400 bucks. As soon as he told me what he got I asked if the dudes were in a white van. He said, "yeah how did you know?" I cringed as I explained that he was just duped.
Amazingly he had just bought a set of PSB Image 4T's a couple months earlier so i have no idea why he even considered buying more speakers.
Jo6Pak
Well-Known Member
white van speaker guyz didn't get me, but the white van video camera guyz did. this was back in the mid 80s before every one and his brother/sister owned one. paid $150 cash in a parking lot, only to find a buncha newspaper and a couple bricks when i got it home, despite what appeared to be the original box. the joke was one me, so to speak...
Dynacophil
I ain't Phil, I'm 'phile
.... and it's not alocal phenomenon, it's a worldwide business. I had my first visual contact 1987 in Berlin/Germany!
poortom
Active Member
Come to think of it I remember an old detective/cop tv show (Don't remember which one) where a guy bought a TV off a shipping dock from another guy who convinced him it was an expensive new set. It was a large box with a small cut-out where the buyer could see part of the picture tube. When thje buyer got it home it was just a picture tube and a bunch of bricks. I didn't think that kind of thing went on anymore. Seems to me it was Dragnet or 1-Adam 12 (Yes I am OLD!)
I've had the white van fellas swoop in on me a couple times. Never fell for it.
Last time I saw them at a gas station while I was pumping gas, they were trying to sell to some gal. I went over and told her not to do it. They got a little rude so I got rude back at them. She didn't know about the dupe-boyz in the van.
Last time I saw them at a gas station while I was pumping gas, they were trying to sell to some gal. I went over and told her not to do it. They got a little rude so I got rude back at them. She didn't know about the dupe-boyz in the van.
gewoonmaf
Thrift rat
Mine was circa 1997 in Amersfoort, Holland. Didn't bite either.
It worked back then, and it still works today, often enough to keep them in 'business', because people are still people.
