Scammer Alert (Houston Area)
05-14-2010, 07:31 PM
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hey man those guys live right next door to me and sold me the exact same **** but ine actually works sorry to hear you got screwed i got screwed to cause the speakers are only worth $40 cause there walm art speakers they put there name on it and sell it
05-14-2010, 07:34 PM
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sounds like the guys that my friend told me about , they followed em down 45s and he just kept ignorin em , an he took a quick exit and lost em.
05-14-2010, 07:39 PM
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Yes one of them was Bald and the other was a little on the bigger side. Probably the same guys as you encountered. Definitly was a uneasy feeling. Wish I had my .40 on me and it might have been a different outcome. Good to hear someone stood up to these guys. One day they will mess with the wrong person and I hope karma bites them in the ***.
Seriously, it's sad you had to experience that but I'm glad it turned out like it did. No one got hurt.
05-14-2010, 07:41 PM
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If the system is really worth $2500, you can surely sell it for $250 with the same sales "techniques"! Sounds like used car sales men out of work to me or maybe they were from Conn's?
Seriously, it's sad you had to experience that but I'm glad it turned out like it did. No one got hurt.
Seriously, it's sad you had to experience that but I'm glad it turned out like it did. No one got hurt.
05-14-2010, 07:42 PM
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dude....Was it a Bald white guy???? cause there was 3 guys that pulled up to me at a shell station about a month ago here while I was in my company truck tryin to sell me the same thing, same story and all.....I declined about 5 or 6 times and he kept at it, stepping closer with every question..offered to follow me to my bank so I could with drawl the money since I do not carry cash on me while at work.....finally got close enough to reach for my holstered 9mm at my side on my inner waist band...had to ask him 3 times to step back and leave me alone....once it was unholstered and drawn, the 3 of em stepped back fairly quickly... now I'm 5'11" and weigh a whooping 160lbs... and these guys had me out weighed by about 200lbs at least...call me a puss if you want, but 3 on 1....I didn't like my odds
05-14-2010, 09:14 PM
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sux that this happened. but hopefully it opened your eyes. i have had some of the strangest things happen to me and always seam to be some were at the wrong time.
My only advice to everyone and i preach this to everyone i know is get your CHL if you don't have it. If you do have it carry 99% of the time. I dont say 100% because it is impossible for some to carry at work legally and screw the company policy i would rather be alive and looking for a new job if something happened. one of the biggest mistakes people make is that they have a pistol but leave it in their console. When you encounter a situation you do not have time and probably will not be able to get to it as you probably figured out.
I don't take my pistol off my waist till i am going to take a shower to go to bed hell i even mow my and such.
My only advice to everyone and i preach this to everyone i know is get your CHL if you don't have it. If you do have it carry 99% of the time. I dont say 100% because it is impossible for some to carry at work legally and screw the company policy i would rather be alive and looking for a new job if something happened. one of the biggest mistakes people make is that they have a pistol but leave it in their console. When you encounter a situation you do not have time and probably will not be able to get to it as you probably figured out.
I don't take my pistol off my waist till i am going to take a shower to go to bed hell i even mow my and such.
05-14-2010, 10:48 PM
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Try 17 years. Me and one of my old bosses were approached by two guys with the same scam 17 yrs ago. Our out come was great. They made there pitch and then we made ours. We had them unload and unbox every thing and then told them we would have to pass and we took off.
05-14-2010, 11:26 PM
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We know you have money????
I would be contacting the guy you just sold the gun to.... sounds like a set up.
May sound a little 'grassy knoll' but I'm not really a trusting person when it comes to deals too good to be true.
I have had this offer a few times- earliest was in '95 in Northern VA- scams are all over.
I would be contacting the guy you just sold the gun to.... sounds like a set up.
May sound a little 'grassy knoll' but I'm not really a trusting person when it comes to deals too good to be true.
I have had this offer a few times- earliest was in '95 in Northern VA- scams are all over.
05-14-2010, 11:54 PM
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i've only been in Texas since Feb and twice now I've had people in an suv asking me if i want a home theater system....luckily both times were in traffic during the day.
05-15-2010, 12:56 PM
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Ain't nobody "telling me" I know you got money. I've had people do that to me, but never get pushy about it. I can't believe they would do this type of extortion in broad daylight.
Well glad you got out unharmed.
Well glad you got out unharmed.
05-15-2010, 01:29 PM
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You guys must live in nice parts of town, because in Alief this constitutes a jacking, jack **** and that's when the glock 40 shells start falling. Plus your at a gas station, but ol' boy step back in a hurry when hes covered in gas and see's you got a lighter your flicking coming at him.
05-15-2010, 02:08 PM
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Ive had these same guys approach me in an HEB parking lot a while back, they do get pushy. After telling them no I dont know how many times, I finally started yelling at them in the lot if they were hard of hearing, and suggested that they leave before thing start to get real bad. They kept mumbling something and got back in the truck.
Now dont get me wrong, I was pretty outgunned that day too, but there were more than a few people watching at this point so I figured nobody was going to make any drastic moves, except for the exit.
Now dont get me wrong, I was pretty outgunned that day too, but there were more than a few people watching at this point so I figured nobody was going to make any drastic moves, except for the exit.
