Scammers at it again!

On the way home from work today heading south along Alexander Dve stopped at the lights to go under Reid Hwy. Had the window up, aircon going and tunes cranking. Then i hear this oi mate coming from a guy in the passenger seat of a WHITE VAN beside me. Wind my window down and ask what he wants. And right there and then at a set of lights waiting for them to go green he started to try and sell me a 'cheap good quality' home speaker/entertainment system. Hahahahahaha, after reading the posts on here a while ago, i knew exactly what he was on about. Basically said not interested mate. He persisted a bit then i basically said you'll have no bites from me mate. Lights then went green and as traffic started to move off i was looking to try get his rego. But he was maintaining speed beside me(even though i was purposely accelerating slow to let him get in front of me so i could see it), i am guessing so i couldnt get his rego. But i had to turn left so i slowed right down and he tried to accelerate really quickly away. Glad i still have good eyesight.

 

1DNG 379

 

Does anyone know if there is an agency of department you can reports these kind of cheese balls too?

 

 

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/dodgy-home-theatre-systems

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam


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 Had 2 guys come up to me in

Mon, 2012-03-19 22:00

 Had 2 guys come up to me in Byford one was a wog guy or lebo other was like Chinese but they started off like its all good gear and just rang my boss and he over order told us to get rid off it haha but they was like we will follow u to ATM but nar never went thru with told them not interested dunno if u had same guys

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the exact same thing happened

Mon, 2012-03-19 22:16

the exact same thing happened to a mate of mine a few months ago, seems like theres a bit of this going around lately

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ACCC I would think...not sure

Mon, 2012-03-19 22:22

ACCC I would think...not sure on illegalities , I think they get around that by going mobile and not door to door ...

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Had the same white van try

Mon, 2012-03-19 22:44

Had the same white van try sell the same kind of crap in midland on friday in carpark , watched them for a while asking every one walking pasted them...

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http://www.scamnet.wa.gov.au/

Mon, 2012-03-19 23:15
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 yep it happens. we had a guy

Mon, 2012-03-19 23:19

 yep it happens. we had a guy try selling the stuff to us in our shop. same story. makes you wonder how many get gypped by them. never buy anything from the back of a van or that fell off the back of a truck.

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2 weeks ago jumped out while

Tue, 2012-03-20 03:16

2 weeks ago jumped out while i was ordering at HJs joondalup "awesome tv real cheap"

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https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/

Tue, 2012-03-20 06:12

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/index.phtml/tag/reportascam/

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kiwi chick

Tue, 2012-03-20 07:01

yeah a month ago , in east freo , a kiwi chick and "cuzzy bro" tried a quick sell on me

in a carpark," yeah mate , we ars delivery drivers bro, the boss  over ordered, good stereo

gear, cheap."

Anybody gettin sucked into that deserves what they get, dont forget the outrage

over that bermuda boat stolen recently, this stuff is hot, and if the five fingered discount lads

cant shift it , no point nicking it, so dont create a market , buy buying doggey gear.

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 Most of it is not hot, it's

Tue, 2012-03-20 08:11

 Most of it is not hot, it's real cheap shit from china, Thailand etc...

Some even have a website now which displays the Gear rating it as top notch equipment.
 
Appare toy there is a legal loop hole they get through
 
This type of scamming is relivitally new to Australia but huge in the US and Canada
 
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Na been around for a while.

Wed, 2012-03-21 20:11

Na been around for a while. Had the same thing happen in Sydney while at a set of lights on Botany Rd in the 90's. More than once ;-)

 

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same thing whilst i was

Tue, 2012-03-20 08:40

same thing whilst i was working at bluewater mindarie ... a van pulls up 2 dodgy europeans jump out and tell me that they still have one home entertainment system left and as it is not on the delivery docket the couldnt be bothered taking it back to the ware house so they would give it to me .. i walked away whilst laughing at them telling them that they are a joke wich upset them immensly then they took of in a reel hurry.

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Had a similar thing happen to

Wed, 2012-03-21 13:43

Had a similar thing happen to me, only i was rolling along at about 50 km/h at the time and these guys were yelling out their window asking me if I was interested in home theatre gear. I just laughed at them, turned out I had heard about the classic "white van home theatre scam" a couple of weeks before the event. Also had it happen to me in Karratha shopping centre carpark, only they had a ute instead of a van and seemed really laid back.

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heads up

Tue, 2012-03-27 14:35

just a heads up guys they just came into work and offered a full tv home theatre system for cheap and best of all they said they would install it to hahahaha, said no and they left fairly quickly.

They were in  a white toyota van rego 1drx923

 

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SCUMBAGS

Tue, 2012-03-27 20:08

 

  Obviously hot, its this type of thing that tells me to stay away from metro, works for me.