White Van Scam (melb)

[RG]

Originally Posted by Mulberry Laine

come across these blokes in Griffith NSW all the time,selling plasma and lcd screens home entertainment systems.White Van Vic rego.

Not surprised at all being Griffith, they were probably there to pick up some more "product"..

**I was born there so I can say that lol**

[Mulberry Laine]

[EDXRSW]

I've got a classic for you, my next door neighbour whos a big guy 6foot 4. and a couple of his workers where driving along in there work ute and the same scam was offered to them so they said the the guys in the van yeah where interested and stopped and had a look at the speakers.When the deal was all done my neighbour and the guys just put the speakers in the back of his ute and drove off, the guys in the van went nuts until my neighbour threatened to rip there heads off. My neighbour just told them to call the cops and get them to chase him, didn't happen of course.
I laughed my *** off when i heard that story.

[divyb]

damn! i wish i found this thread a week ago :(

two guys in a white van drove by me when i was at a shopping centre car park, one was
a whiteguy around 24-26 and the other was a wog around the same age probably abit older (oh im not using the word wog in a bad way)
they had a company logo on there shirts and even had a clip board with the logo lol
there story was we picked up a extra stereo system and are trying to make a few extra bucks,
i didnt believe the story but the system looked ok and i was fooled by the barcode on the box saying msrp $5,999
i ended up buying it for $500 it had a receiver, 2 tower speakers and 3 surround speakers
they sound really good so i cant complain but the funny thing is the guy that lives two doors down from me got pulled up buy the same guys 2 weeks ago

do you all think it is wrong for me to re-sell it for the same price i paid?

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by EDXRSW

I've got a classic for you, my next door neighbour whos a big guy 6foot 4. and a couple of his workers where driving along in there work ute and the same scam was offered to them so they said the the guys in the van yeah where interested and stopped and had a look at the speakers.When the deal was all done my neighbour and the guys just put the speakers in the back of his ute and drove off, the guys in the van went nuts until my neighbour threatened to rip there heads off. My neighbour just told them to call the cops and get them to chase him, didn't happen of course.
I laughed my *** off when i heard that story.

Pure gold

[Daymoe]

Originally Posted by divyb

damn! i wish i found this thread a week ago :(

two guys in a white van drove by me when i was at a shopping centre car park, one was
a whiteguy around 24-26 and the other was a wog around the same age probably abit older (oh im not using the word wog in a bad way)
they had a company logo on there shirts and even had a clip board with the logo lol
there story was we picked up a extra stereo system and are trying to make a few extra bucks,
i didnt believe the story but the system looked ok and i was fooled by the barcode on the box saying msrp $5,999
i ended up buying it for $500 it had a receiver, 2 tower speakers and 3 surround speakers
they sound really good so i cant complain but the funny thing is the guy that lives two doors down from me got pulled up buy the same guys 2 weeks ago

do you all think it is wrong for me to re-sell it for the same price i paid?

Probably just cheap crappy speakers and reciever from ebay or something, I doubt they're stolen.

[Hemicuda]

Originally Posted by XR2DOOR

wow i cant belieave there still doing it theyve been doing it for 20 odd years

oh man am i that old :

That's what i was thinking. I cant believe this is still going on either. I can remember being approached back in the early 90's.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Originally Posted by old_mate

yea i had them the other week at Ipswich. Dodgy as lol. Vic plates on the relatively new Hiace as well.

They hire the vans...

[ubute]

Yeah same sounding guys bailed me up in the car park at Stafford City Shopping Centre the other week. Wish I'd thought of that trick getting them to load up my ute then nicking off. Knowing my luck the cops would've been watching and I'd have been the one getting caught.

[qwiksix]

Hey, I got bailed up by these guys while I was doing some business at an ATM. They pulled up at a stop light. Conversation went like this:
WhiteVanGuys: "Hey"
I ignored them about 3 times.
WVG: "Hey do you want to buy some speakers?"
Me: "Faaark off"
WVG:"What did you say?"
Me: "White van guys"
WVG:"Hahaha. It's a good deal. Did you hear that from the internet?"
Me: "You guys are famous!"

This happened at Gordon (Sydney) about 2pm on Thursday. Saw them cruising past the train station and car parks too. There's a cop station like 20m from where they hit me up...

Damn, should have got the numberplates and some pics or a vid....
Next time...

ws

[G6ET8U]

The actual factory that they run out of is in Friars Road, Moorabbin. Can't for the life of me remember the number but it's on the left hand side behind an actual business about 3/4 of the way up Friars Road with Coke on your right hand side if you are coming from Keys Road.

[Gobes32]

Is it a scam if the goods are not stolen? It might not be ethical business practices, but I do not think it's a scam.

[Argonautica]

I was bailed up awhile back in FTG, and politely "declined" to purchase the goods. I also thought it was a scam purchasing re-branded copy speakers....anyway - Plenty of Police mates and relatives so I asked one night over a few beers with the lads, turns out they are legitimate registered businesses and operate from vans reducing overheads and market the goods from the van because people will think they are getting a cheap deal...and hence be more likely to buy.

[Rangas GTP]

Blue van scam now,came across them at the BP service station on Princess Hwy St Peters Sydney. Two greek guys selling Deutsch Akustik D-85 systems. Me also being greek tried scamming the scammers till I was happy with my outlay. Yeh may be stupid buying off them but the sub had ipod dock. Perfect for the garage. Had to laugh, the blue van they were driving had VIC plates.

[NeillNZ]

This is quite intriguing. I had this here in Wellington in early 2000s. A friend and I still joke about the guy's in a white van calling out at the lights "hey buddy, wanna buy some speakers?"

I know a guy who bought a set for a small drama theatre. They were branded as Cerwin Vega or JBL, grey woolly cabinets. They actually sounded fine but they certainly were not genuine.

So are these the same guys?

[Teflon Turbo]

without having read the last 5 pages of this thread thouroughly, happens once a year to me, but, when i use to have a scanner, someone called the cops on one of these guys, so the popo went and checked em out and it was legit, they actually have a permit to sell those via the van and on the street and all their goods have supporting paperwork and the businesses check out.

got all that info over the air waves first hand

[silvergsvan]

Originally Posted by Teflon Turbo

so the popo went

Watchin "The Wire"?

[Teflon Turbo]

yeah popo, fuzz, five-0, jacks, the man, whatever, you get the drift

[fordOwner]

These guys or simillar approached me last week here in Perth in Scarborough to buy some speakers.
I was last approached by these guys a few years ago, I said I had no money to buy speakers and they said thats cool, they will give me a lift to the ATM!!!!

Anyways lastweek I saw them trawiling the shopoping centre car parks. As soon as the passenger saw me the driver floored it and raced around the car bays to get to me, I ran for it and made it to my ute but they managed to pull up next to me in their van. They started yelling "HEY MATE!, HEY MATE!!! COME HERE FOR A SEC!" as he waved some form of invoice book.
I just laughed and reverded out.

They are real spineless tossers. Ive seen them trying to persuade old women in the car park.