Care to share your scams?

The overstocked speakers in the back of the van has been going on 16 years now ,that I know of. No, they are not stolden. In Canada anyways, a guy is southern Ontario makes these super cheap boxes .The current ones are about 42 inches high and 9 by 11 and are called monitor 9's or somthing like that. The packaging looks good, thay have soft dome tweeters and 2 6 inch drivers . They look slick enough to fool the novice.
They cost about 110.00 $CAD. to make. I have not heard a pair my self but have been told they are ok for a novice. The con person who runs this has a system down pat. A couple of guys pick city, lease some expensive SUV s
and go to whomever will listen about how they were just delivering speakers and got pairs loaded in the truck instead of individual speakers and now they have just 4 pairs of speakers at incredable prices. They often have an invoice in hand to justify a list price. I watched this happen just last week to some guy who couldn't refuse such a bargain.
Like all con men they appeal to our inability to get somthing for next to nothing weather we need it or not.
cheers steve

A bit of a scam. Sign on a Petro-Canada gas station near my home read "Temporarily closed. To serve you better, soon self-serve ". You know how cold it gets here in the winter to pump it yourself?

pbb: now, that's where a wife comes in handy. (wink, wink. nudge, nudge. knowwhatimean, knowwhatimean?) -cfb

The scam goes on in Montreal too. A TV show exposing various scams brought a pair to what I think I recognized as a high end shop here that sells, inter alia, Audio Research, for an opinion as to the quality of this junk and they found the quality to be horrendous, not even on par with the type of stuff found at similar prices in places like Best Buy. And we quibble on these pages about the nth degree of imaging. I think the guy said that the cabinet was more suitable as a box for the cat than as an enclosure for speakers.

Care for some Euroscam? Well here goes: Those guys, who are urgently in need of cash, because granny is in hospital and has no medical aid, so they'll sell you their new leather jacket, or their Rolex or those little one ounce gold bars for practically nothing. All fakes of course and the more greedy you get, the more you'll be had.
And then some Texas scam, which happened to me this year: That nice lady of that rare female audiophile breed I thought, who after some research later turned out to be a guy, no longer here at Audiogon and who took me for three pairs of Bybees, which never arrived of course.