Their scam I saw was thus:
They approach the victim and say “Our boss told us to go to the warehouse and get 10 of (whatever. In one case it was large speakers). We accidentally got 11 of them, so we need to get rid of one now, before returning to the boss. We’ll give you a great deal”.
They then open up a box and display the large speakers. “But hey, let me give you an unopened one” they say.
And when you get home you find it is full of bricks.
2 dudes tried it on me in an Academy parking lot. The product was “A home surround sound stereo system”. I laughed in their faces.
More recently I was in an HEB supermarket. A child passed behind me and threw something at my back. He was acting odd. I followed him. Turns out he was a filthy gypsy who was eating food off the shelves and hiding the wrappers, all with his parents’ approval. I stood by the family as they stole; the child was very sneaky about it. I contacted management. They did not believe the part about the parents coaxing the children to steal; it was just too crazy for a law abiding American to conceive, so I took the manager to the wrappers and then pointed out the family. The dad looked like he was going to stab me!
Filthy gypsies are filthy, disgusting people who think that one of their ancestors obtained a nail from Christ’s cross and thus God allows them to steal. For real, that is the justification for their criminality.
I had some of them try to pull that speaker scam on me years ago. I’d like to think I was too smart, but the reality was that my car was too small to stow the speaker boxes and I was on my way to work.