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Buying an iPad In a Parking Lot is a Bad Idea

nagromme said:
I would only buy an iPad from a car trunk if I could test it on the spot, and if it had almost no bloodstains.
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guys! you are way behind us! In Italy this scam dates since 80s. And they also let you test onnthe spot, but then are so clever to do a trick and give the buyer the wooden thing. They showed the all procedure at a TV program with undercovervideos.

BTW, I was given my very first fake banknote in the US, Tulare, CA, not in Italy.

The world is getting smaller and smaller!

Ben
 
There was a spate of these in the UK five or so years ago. The whole basis for the transaction being done quickly, without giving the 'buyer' time to examine the goods, was the unspoken statement that the goods were stolen. Both the price and the manner of sale make that crystal clear.

Anyone willing to buy stolen goods deserves all they get in my view.
 
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I'm glad I read this, I often buy goods which I think are legit from guys in parking lots..
 
Pretty sure they're going to hit up surrounding cities. I live in Arlington, so I'm certain people will see them.
 
When I was living for a summer outside NY City there was variation on the speaker scam.

You'd be walking along the sidewalk, and couple of fellows would pop the trunk of their car and offer you a pair of big speakers for a good price. All sorts of stories were used about why they were selling them. You could look at them, examine them. Anything you wanted. If you had a stereo you could test them even (but who walks around with a stereo?). You'd get them home and they'd work fine even.

The scam was that they were buying cheap speakers, legitimately. Even getting a volume discount from the store. But they were charging 2x and 3x what they worth, and were counting on the out-of-town rubes believing that they were "hot", and therefore being sold at a steep discount. Part of the schtick was that they insisted on giving everyone a receipt. And of course the more the scammers insisted on doing the paperwork for the goods sold from the trunk of the car, the more their 'customers' were convinced by the schtick.

The cops tried to shut them down, but they weren't doing anything really illegal. They paid their taxes, and had the paper work to prove it. They plugged the meter. They weren't vending on the sidewalk, so there was some doubt whether the city's vending laws even applied. And if the scammers were cited they just paid the fine because it was small, and they figured it was cheaper to pay it than to fight it.

The only thing they were guilty of was taking advantage of the tourists' greed.
 
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It should be a greater crime to be so stupid.
 
Really?

If anyone who knows how to google will know Apple's true prices, anything basically under $490 for an iPad or even a MacBook is naive!
 
NeonGreenHermit said:
My dad used to work around the world on contracts (engineering, that is), and still laughs to tears about how the house he used to live in when working in Nigera was burgled one night - the thieves left everything, and instead stole the Monopoly money.

I'm not inferring or implying anything racial btw, just that it happened and was hilarious. They probably had never seen Monopoly before and thought they had hit the jackpot.
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Seriously hilarious!!!

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I'm glad I read this, I often buy goods which I think are legit from guys in parking lots..
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I can't stop laughing at peoples comments here...!
 
Amateurs...

If I were one of the guys in the car, I would've sell them the AppleCare too!!! :D
 
bengi said:
guys! you are way behind us! In Italy this scam dates since 80s. And they also let you test onnthe spot, but then are so clever to do a trick and give the buyer the wooden thing. They showed the all procedure at a TV program with undercovervideos.

BTW, I was given my very first fake banknote in the US, Tulare, CA, not in Italy.

The world is getting smaller and smaller!

Ben
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Selling something that's not actually what one claims it is... is that even new? I'm sure it dates far beyond the 80's.
 
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Really it's just a case of some entrepreneurial guys misplacing their talent. The buyers are just dumb, and should be grateful they were taken for more... But the sellers need to be shown how to harness their abilities in a more legal sense. They have so much potential!
 
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mac=saif said:
How can people be so stupid?
I back the people who run the scam, to remind us how retarded are world is become!
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I'm not even going to say it.

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Wait, it's funnier if I do.
mac=saif
are = our
is = has
And those aren't all of the problems with your statement.
 
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