found out about this scam from my brother. Apparently they approached him and his 92 Gs-R to try to sell him some "high quality speakers" for a song. good thign he called his girlfriend to ask her to look them up. Here is the link
http://www.scamshield.com/Feature.asp?id=1
Ryan

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83 300SD.......sold
96 integra SE....sold
99 a4 quattro....sold
2001 IS300.......sold
2002 330i.........current.
2004 highlander limited....current.

A good heads up, Ryan.
I've always made it a rule never to buy anything from people peddling stuff out of their trunk(or van, or whatever).

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

Let me guess, it goes something like this . .

"The warehouse gave us too many units and the boss said to just blow them out . . ."

"These are overstocks that aren't on our shipping invoice, so we're just making a few bucks . . "

"The store that ordered them went out of business, so we're stuck with them . . ."

It's a nationwide pitch, even here in Hawaii. The "sellers" generally look for folks with bigger cars or vans so they can close the deal right there. Typical hangouts are big box stores like Costco, Sams, etc. where they know people are looking for deals and have big vehicles. They only take cash and are more than willing to follow you to an ATM.

They usually will show you "receipts" from local restaurants and bars that bought the same speakers for big bucks.

Lift any one of those speakers and you'll know they're junk. They'll weigh 10 pounds at best.

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Current:
2014 VW Tiguan SEL 4Motion 43,000 miles.

2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's).

Past:
2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13.
1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07.
1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06.
1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation.
1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver.

Numero uno scam because of the low risk to the scammers. They drive around and pick their walking target.

We were chased down while driving the Ferrari a couple weeks ago by a couple guys in a van with obvious fleet numbers on it. I asked him who's speakers they were and he said "mine". I told him we didn't have room and moved on. He pressed the issue then I pressed the accelerator....problem solved.

Apparently a legit audio store in Toronto was selling merchandise out of a van and the sales people were making it seem like it was not so legit. They found they got more customers that way.

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired