We were going to use this story as a reminder to readers to not buy electronics from the back of a car or van, lest you end up with a box of junk. Then we remembered where most of these stories occur.
37-inch flat screen TV for $100 is really an oven door [The Oakland Tribune]
Thanks, dk!
UPDATE: As a commenter points out, the man was arrested for driving with a suspended license, not for trying to commit fraud. The police did confiscate his oven door/TV, though.
]]>That should be a dead give away with all of the stickers on the TV. I don't care what store you walk into, you never see that many stickers on a TV. If it was actually a TV and had that many stickers on it, how would they demon the picture on it. There's too many stickers on there to see what you would be getting. Pretty innovative though. The person just didn't think it through all the way.
]]>Hey, this dude has a future as a Republican pundit! The skills needed to sell fraudulent products and concepts, provided that you can't get a job on Wall Street, is very useful in selling the NASCAR crowd on the brand of insanity the GOP seems to peddle these days. I'd watch the Fox News fall schedule for any new shows to see if this character shows up as a host.
]]>@Saltillopunk: Yeah, you'd find that it was an extra concrete block when you get home...
F-in' gypsies...
]]>@RecordStoreToughGuy_LandHereMuguKeepOOOOOFF: I got the Zoom reference...
]]>Wait...is it a Magic Chef oven door?
]]>@xredgambit: You're right that it's never Lupis. However, it might sometimes be lupus, as in lupus erythematosus.
]]>'Nuff said...
]]>@Chris Walters: Think of the possibilities! Not only can you convert an oven door into a HDTV, you can take the oven and make it into a really big tube TV and try to sell it to the 80 year old man down the street who is hard of hearing!
]]>If I dig up part of the house's foundation can I plant an adequate indoor garden? With a barrel of plant light bulbs and really dark tarps (to keep the light in) and maybe a couple of chickens laying eggs in the laundry room do you think I can maintain my renewed faith and live happily ever after?
Lord, have I had a day.
]]>@RecordStoreToughGuy_DoesNotHaveAPillowFriend:
Anytime you write "Qatar".
Personally I just laugh at the people that go around to gas stations and sell stuff out of their trunk. "Hey bud, do you need a stereo system?" Hilarious.
]]>@techstar25: He told me I have to watch this tv in my kitchen. I just thought the stupid tv only picked up the food network.
]]>@RandaPanda: Just like the consumerist. They sell you one thing and in the box is nothing more than best buy.
When I tried to return the article, they basically said that I switched it out at my house and will not take it back.
It could be worse through, They could be dolling up an artice about cats and calling it consumer justice :P.
(Please note I love cats and I have one at home. His name is Lupis because it's never Lupis. Also he likes to bite the back of my leg when I get out of the shower then rolls around pretenting to be cute which I fall for every time.)
]]>This is a common scam (selling speakers, etc. out of a white van in a parking lot) :
Link to wikipedia artice "White Van Speaker Scam" - [en.wikipedia.org]
But even this bleeding heart liberal thinks that if you buy electronics off of the back of a truck, that qualifies as a penalty for being stupid.
]]>Yeah, he got a box of monster cables, but when he opened it all he found were coat hangers!
]]>(Aside: once I waited patiently for what seemed an eternity while an elderly cashier hunted all over the keyboard for the J key she needed to enter my postal code, and the whole time I wished for that green trench coat dude to come sell her a damned J already.)
]]>Now that's going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day!
]]>I sense a future career as a speaker scammer...
]]>you win.
www.instantrimshot.com
@GitEmSteveDave_TryinToTakeItBack: I've never had to replace the door on my oven before, but it wouldn't surprise me that it would cost more than $100. This may have been a real bargain.
]]>@techstar25: Hey, I resent that! I watched an episode of the "Honeymooners" the other night on my oven door and I never saw Ralph Kramden looking so sharp and clear.
]]>I have a screen saver on my oven door so that an image of a pot roast doesn't get burned into the screen.
]]>By the way - I'm offering a fantastic deal on I's, but only to a select few. Offer ends in 11 minutes so hurry...
]]>at least direct tv get's right same number or number-1 for HD.
]]>(It also boggles my mind how many people think "aspect ratio" and "resolution" are one and the same, and interchangeable.)
]]>From what I can see visiting people's homes... most people don't know the diff between HD and SD on a hi-def TV-- they'll sit there and watch the horizontally distorted SD signal, and when I turn the TV to the same station on HD (buried somewhere on their cable-- cable companies need to do a better job w/this)- they're amazed.
]]>"Remember folks, the only way to get the best performance from your high-def oven door is to use Monster Cables.
Had he only included them, he could have charged *$200* for that high-def oven door. . ."
]]>Does anyone else wonder if they were Monster Cables? B/c if you are going to rip someone off, might as well go for the gold.
]]>"Is it hot?"
"Not anymore..."
]]>The link for the Oakland Tribune article takes you to a consumerist article about Best Buy selling a box of tiles...
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