note: this is somewhat similar to that white van thing that was selling speakers like a year back.

So today my friend and I were just getting out of the car at garbo and before we made 15 meters this Italian (so he said) guy drives up to us and goes on about how he works for Gergio Armani(sp) (he was well dressed ill give him that) and that they gave him these 4 jackets that he has no use for, that a long with the story that he had to leave the country later in the day and he didn't want to pay tax on them.

So he offers them to us initially for all 4 for the price of 1. ($1300). So friend and I played along and just kept questioning him about his story. He had a passport with stamped visa's and it looked looked pretty legit, even asked for the rent a' car papers (which he provided, but weren't in his name, bit suss there). Eventually he talked himself down to $400 for all 4 of them which TBH its a pretty good deal even if they weren't real.

After 20 mins of screwing around with him we said no and we parted ways.


Has anyone else seen this s*** around? Pretty OK chance that his story was for real and he just wanted a few quick bucks off what his company just gives him, but ill never know!

ps: he did some fire to leather thing to prove that it was genuine leather, but i was a bit skeptical of that.

Bejabbers!!!

if it sounds too good to be true you should just jump in and buy it all

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=fake+leather+jacket+scam&meta=
But i'm sure your situation was completely different.

yeah my old man got pwned by those doods quite a few years back.. jackets are actually pretty decent and still look great today!! But definitely doubt they are genuine.

Heh some kiwis in a rent-a-van tried to sell me an entertainment system in Indooroopilly centre carpark. what the hell

yer idol, thats the white van scam

its done everywhere

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

haha yeh i had a run in with the white van speaker scam at indro too. Then a week later i saw them trying to rip someone else off there (after i had googled them) so i went up and exposed them Today Tonight style in front of the scamee.

f*** me I didn't suspect it was anything like that, lol, just thought they were stolen

Next time try the old lighter test on the "leather"

yeah the speaker thing... we were on the road stopped at trafic lights some guy tried to sell speakers window to window. few years back but...

I was parked in a local street when a white van pulled up next to me with a s***load of lush audio gear. They were trying to offload it for whatever price window to window.

No scam here. Just some thieves with some strange accents.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=383548

aha seems like its a total scam. That was pretty much my whole story!

So beware dodgy italian guy selling jackets down at garbo! prolly headed to indro later on!

One of my mates got owned by the white van scam out at UQ. I think he paid a lot too.

my old man purchased a set of those speakers, they wanted $2k from the white van
he eventually got them down to $300 (cheque) + $30 in cash for a carton of piss (their idea)

they're still going strong today, they look exactly the same as the $2500 wharfdale speakers I have in my lounge room, only an audiophile could tell the difference in sound quality for 90% of in-home use, in my opinion of course

yer, my mates father in law got done as well

its funny, coz hes a total tightwad, and no doubt only spent the money coz he figured he could onsell them for a profit

i took great delight in telling old mate that he had been had

lolz

I'd really like to know what kind of moron would think you're getting a good deal from someone dodgy enough to sell you s*** from a truck/on foot.

I keep reading these scam stories and people always say "my partner isn't stupid" or "now I'm no idiot but" well I hate to say it but if you get done by these scammers then yes, you are a f***ing idiot, your partner is an idiot, and you deserve to be parted from your hard earned cash you dumb s***s.

That white van came around my work one day & as soon as he said they were "theater quality speakers" I just thought yeah whatever, f*** off mate. We let him prattle on about how awesome they were & waste his time before eventually telling him to f*** off.

yer, whoop, totally agree

personally, i think anyone who falls for this deal gets what they deserve

you can't blame the victim, people want to trust people, and they know how to exploit that

at what time during the dealing with the guy did you decide you were going to make a thread on qgl about it ?

it was straight after because curiosity kept poking at me and was like "gee i wonder if its real. i better make a post about it!!!"

I'd really like to know what kind of moron would think you're getting a good deal from someone dodgy enough to sell you s*** from a truck/on foot.

I keep reading these scam stories and people always say "my partner isn't stupid" or "now I'm no idiot but" well I hate to say it but if you get done by these scammers then yes, you are a f***ing idiot, your partner is an idiot, and you deserve to be parted from your hard earned cash you dumb s***s.

That white van came around my work one day & as soon as he said they were "theater quality speakers" I just thought yeah whatever, f*** off mate. We let him prattle on about how awesome they were & waste his time before eventually telling him to f*** off.

I disagree, for $330 you couldn't have a set of 6 speakers delivered to your house from anywhere.
if all you want is a real basic addition to your DVD player, it's not a half bad deal.

teq is a scamster..

get him bois

teq is a poofter more like it

okay guys i'll stop :(