T R Theater Research Inc Paramax Audio white van speaker scam RIP OFF Cypress, California

..that this same EXACT scam still goes on. It has been going on for as long as I can remember..and all over the country. I remember this back from when I lived in NYC, and a few years ago when I lived in Florida they got a friend of mine.

He is a sucker,,I swear this guy falls for everything. He calls me to help him set it up. When I get to his house I see the box and it says almost $2000.00 retail on the label. I asked him if he got this in some parking lot where 2 guys said it was surplus from a job and they want to get rid of it or their boss will keep it. He asked me how I knew and I told him he was suckered.

He wanted it to replace his Bose system and thought it would be better since on the box it said $2000.00. So for giggles I set it up for him (which I also told him he was lucky it was not a box of sand or rocks which these scammers sometimes do as well), and it sounded terrible. We put the Bose system back and he asked me what he should do with the system, he paid over 300 bucks for it.

I told him that he either has to scam someone else and hope to recoup, or give it away since I could get a similar or better system for him legitimately for under $100.00.

yeah well the same exact thing happen to me today and i paid 350 and this souless lowlife was actually in my car what was i even thinking ?

So two guys come up to you in a parking lot and offer to sell you some of their "surplus".   They are so afraid that there boss will be upset that they have extra sets of $2000 speakers, that they are willing to sell them to you for $200(You didn't say what you bought them for but that is about what other people report).

Nothing in that situation raised any "Red Flags"?  Of course not because you got greedy(and that is what they rely on) thinking you were getting a good deal.

Here is a thought..what if they were stolen?  Do you think you would be able to convince a judge that you had no idea something may be up.  Because of course a judge is going to believe that buying legitimate high end speakers out of the back of a car is something that happens every day.

Personally I think you should set them up so you can be reminded that if it sounds too good to be true..it probably is.