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\"Psst... Wanna by a new HDTV?\"
\"Is it hot?\"
\"Not anymore...\"
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\"Psst... Wanna by a new HDTV?\"
\"Is it hot?\"
\"Not anymore...\"
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It's bad enough that most consumers can't tell the difference between high definition and standard. When they can't tell the difference between high definition and an oven door, you know there's no hope left.
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@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.
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@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.
@techstar25: Amen to that. I'd like to return the money to the all the people in the parking lot who bought the hi-def oven door, then fine each of them $200 for being morons (call it a 'Non-Vigilant Consumer Negligence' fee). Free hi-def remote control sent to those who pay promptly!
@Shoelace: lol. Now to keep that faith, just don't read anymore news stories or leave your house. Ever.
@Anathema777: Or watch most TV shows or talk much on the phone or order things from companies that are owned, managed, or otherwise employ people.
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.
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I recall reading this somewhere else. Engizmodo perhaps?
Anyway, the guy really went all out, compared to most of the parking lot scam people.
I think the buyer should have been tipped off when the screen cleaner included was Easy-Off.
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.
@GitEmSteveDave_TryinToTakeItBack:
Yeah, he got a box of monster cables, but when he opened it all he found were coat hangers!
@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.
Lately I'd rather sit and stare at an oven door than watch what's on TV.
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And it only shows the Food Network.
Dude, not cool. You TOTALLY stole my quote I put up when Gizmodo had this story last week:
\"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. . .\"
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Some weaselly looking green guy in a trench coat tried to get me to buy a \"Q\" the other day. I turned him down; he wanted me to pay extra for the \"u.\" Honestly, how often would I use a \"Q\" without a \"u?\"
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@RecordStoreToughGuy_DoesNotHaveAPillowFriend: Clearly he lacks an advanced marketing degree.
Sigh. Give away Q. Sell (at 1.5x premium) U.
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@RecordStoreToughGuy_DoesNotHaveAPillowFriend: Hrm, I dunno...that guy's song and dance number really shows some effort. I'd suggest tossing a quarter into his case but it'd probably just hit the puppeteer in the head.
(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.)
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@RecordStoreToughGuy_DoesNotHaveAPillowFriend: Would ya like to buy an O??? Round and sweet....
Now that's going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day!
@RecordStoreToughGuy_DoesNotHaveAPillowFriend: Buy up the Q's then sell them with astronomically priced I's! 'Qi' is a premium word that can make you a LOT of money.
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...
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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.
@JGKojak:
cable co need to have much better software and lower box costs $8-$10 per HD box and $16-$20 per HD DVR?
at least direct tv get's right same number or number-1 for HD.
@JGKojak: It truly boggles my mind how many people have no concept of aspect ratio.
(It also boggles my mind how many people think \"aspect ratio\" and \"resolution\" are one and the same, and interchangeable.)
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Read the article - he wasn't arrested for selling an oven door as a $100 HDTV, he was arrested for driving on a suspended license. Big difference.
Well at least the lucky buyer will be able to use his cellphone as a remote.
I have a screen saver on my oven door so that an image of a pot roast doesn't get burned into the screen.
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I love the aluminum foil trim... might have to do that to my real HDTV. Maybe that will stop the mind-control signals.
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Now I feel the need to go around my apartment and identify what things I can disassemble and sell as other things.
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@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!
You have to give the would-be criminal props for ingenuity and overall craftsmanship. From the small picture, it doesn't look that far off. I am sure that up close it looks really silly...
I sense a future career as a speaker scammer...
I knew the self-cleaning feature was too good to be true!
I'm all for lots of government protections where savvy consumers can't be expected to protect themselves - like with lead on toys/dishes/everything or other toxins that those of us without a lab can't be reasonably expected to find. I'm for ingredient listings and all of that stuff that helps those who pay attention to be well-informed consumers.
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.
Dear lord! Just this afternoon, some guy tried to sell me a wireless speaker/entertainment system in a Walmart parking lot. Claims it was an extra left over from some job or something. Maybe we can start a listing of electronics for sale in Walmart parking lots. LOL!
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@Saltillopunk: Yeah, you'd find that it was an extra concrete block when you get home...
F-in' gypsies...
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]
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I can't believe I fell for the old \"oven door as an HDTV\" trick AGAIN!
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My local newspaper in La Porte indiana had a story just last night about 2 guys who hads made flat screen TV's out of plywood and had them shrink wrapped to look like the real thing. The details were sketchy, but it said they would approach people at gas stations when it was dark, and they couldn't really see a lot of detail.
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So that's whats wrong with my TV.
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Why did the cops confiscate the oven door? What right did they have for doing that? The dude was arrested for something unrelated.
+1 for ingenuity...people are stupid enough to fall for such a thing.
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.
\"In a Walmart parking lot\"
'Nuff said...
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Wait...is it a Magic Chef oven door?
Hey, if the guy can pull off this scam, all the power to him. God Bless!
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.
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I wonder if that H-H-H-HDTV is compatible with the P-p-p-powerbook?
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.
BELINDA JANE GANZERLA (nee Keuning) (thief)
in company with
LESLIE CHARLES GILROY (corrupt cop) (thief)
LLOYD STEPHEN GANZERLA (thief)
EUGENE CLEVELAND GANZERLA (thief)
TRACEY ANNE GANZERLA (nee Payne from Junee) (thief)
and others, robbed my wife and I
See the whole story here
http://austlawpublish.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2
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The link for the Oakland Tribune article takes you to a consumerist article about Best Buy selling a box of tiles...
@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.)
@RandaPanda: Here ya go.
[www.insidebayarea.com]
@RandaPanda: Quick! Someone tie a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and throw them off a building!
@RandaPanda: \"Consumerist Reporter Alex Chasick Forgets that CTRL+C is Copy, and CTRL+V is Paste.\"
@RandaPanda: \"Consumerist Uses Bait and Switch tactics on Readers to up PageViews.\"