This reminds me of the White Van Speaker Scam. Where an intense 20 year old guy would open the back doors of a white van (always a white van), and tell you that he has extra speakers that he MUST get rid of before going back to the warehouse. They are $500 speakers, really big, but he’ll give them to you for $200. If you don’t bite, he’ll eventually go down to something like $75. He’ll even drive you to your ATM (cash only, of course). You figure they’re hot, but you’re helping to rip off THE MAN, so it’s ok.
Then you get home with them and THEY SUCK. They might be worth $25, at best, and that’s mostly the particle board and its covering.
They play on your own greed. I almost fell for it (in California, where else?), but didn’t have the money. I told a friend about it...he had already fallen for it. LOL.
One bit of advice - these are serious con men and they will get angry if you play them, very angry - so DO NOT. Just get away.
Because of me, my friend made money on that scam! He fell for it to the tune of $400. Before he even knew it was a scam, I researched it, told him it was a scam, and gave him the cheat sheet on how to get his money back. They talked to a 6’5, 300 lb biker gang dude, who was threatening to kill his wife with a hammer. Two guys ran out of the back to stop the assault and offered my friend his money back. Since they took all different amounts from people, they didn’t know my friend had paid $400. He knew from my cheat sheet it went up to about $900, so he told them that, and that’s how much they gave him back.