Have Any Of You Guys Ever Been Scammed Or Ripped Off?? Tell Your Story Here!!

[Ken785]

I just first want to say that we are all human, we've all done some very stupid things we wish we shouldn't have and wish we could take back, some of us make stupider mistakes then others, some of us make them more often than others....but we all learn from them...for some of us, it takes a few more times and we never learn the lesson the first time because of us being young,dumb,ignorant, or all three.

Was there ever a time in your life where you have been scammed or ripped off?? It has happened to most of us I'll bet...tell your story here...I think I've been ripped off the most being the young and dumb kid i was and still am to this day in a way, so I'll start first...

This one time when i was around 15, walking home from school and going by the grocery plaza on my way home... some black guy offered to sell me one and i told him to wait and that id go home and get the money and come back...he said he couldn't wait more than 5 minutes, i walked home and got $20 and walked back to the grocery plaza hoping he'd still be there but he left...i was saved by my own empty pockets.


The first time i got ripped off was when i was 15 and in high school...it was for a gold chain, and this black guy offered to sell it to me for about $35 as well and without question i just bought it, yep turns out it was fake....you would think i would learn from it right? Nope...happened 2 more times...

The second time i got ripped off was by another black dude walking around selling "Gold chains"....It also happened around the time i was 15 and in high school. It was when i was walking around San Francisco and this black guy was offering to sell me either a gold chain or a digital camera. I was interested in the gold chain, he said he "ordered it with a credit card"....i wanted it, but i was "smart" about it asking if i could put it under a lighter to see if it was real, i did...the gold was still there and got a deal for it for $35.

The third time was when i was 15 also when i was at my locker and this Filipino guy who's locker was next to mine offered to sell me a gold chain also saying he got it for his birthday and didn't want it, he showed me the scratch mark on it saying someone checked it already and that it was "real"...he said he just wanted $10 for it since he just wanted a 10 sack of weed. I bought it...tried to go to Sears jewelers to sell it, and they said it was fake and didn't want to take a look at it. I got ripped off again.



THEN...when i was around 19 years old....

I got ripped off again for $260 once. ATM scam. My old "friend"'s crack head girlfriend said she "didn't have any cash", so asked if she could write me a check so i can deposit it in the ATM machine and she can get the cash back....i fell for it, the stupid, young, dumb ignorant AFC i was. and a couple weeks later i got a letter in the mail from Bank Of America saying the check had bounced. I wanted to kill the b!tch....

Those were the days of my life where i was strung out on meth around the time i was 18-20, not good times. Did really stupid things in my life but i learned from them.

Another time, when i was 20 years old...

i also got ripped off for $200 for what i thought was a laptop. I was pumping gas a the gas station when i was approached by a black guy asking if i wanted to buy a laptop...i initially said i had no money and that i just came to pump gas but i asked how much anyway...he said $500....i took a look at it, he had pulled on out of the box...it looked kinda odd being the acessories looked kinda weird for ones that come with a laptop...i didnt bother to open the book...he had one "new" one sealed in the box and the open one...his other mexican friend said he worked at Circuit city or something in the back doing inventory...

so i got interested and said "I don't have $500 though" he said "well, how much u got?" i said $200. He said ok....

I told him to follow me so Safeway so i can go to the ATM...he did so, i pulled out $200 and he and his other friend seemed rushed and asked which one i wanted, the new one or open one? i said "Hold on...i want the new one" His friend was in the car yelling to hurry up and he seemed pissed to...i said "Open it first" So with an angry look on his face, he grabbed i razor blade from the car...the box seemed kind of odd with thick coated plastic on the outside covered with those "AOL Online" discs...i thought nothing of it thinking maybe they're packaged that way since ive never bought a laptop before...

then he took the razor blade and sliced the side of the box open to reveal a black object with Styrofoam covered around it....i said "OK and gave them the money...he left, then when i was driving home, i got a hunch to pull over and check it again.,..i pulled over to discover that the "laptop" was actually a black rectangle dummy made to look like a laptop,and the rest of the box was filled Styrofoam and newspapers.

I was pissed, and so embarrassed ive newer told anyone until this day.

 

[penkitten]

you know, i never made a list of all the times i have ever been ripped off, but i am sure that i can go on and on...
so instead, i will only share this bit...
COTTMAN TRANSMISSION IS SCUM
and that is what i told the BBB and the states attorney office.

 

[Ken785]

you know, i never made a list of all the times i have ever been ripped off, but i am sure that i can go on and on...
so instead, i will only share this bit...
COTTMAN TRANSMISSION IS SCUM
and that is what i told the BBB and the states attorney office.

elaborate PK, its better...

 

[Harpe]

My cousin just brought home a divinci stereo today that he bought off a guy in a Safeway parking lot claiming that it was extra inventory. If it was real, it would have been a steal at $320. As it turns out, it is part of a big scam that has been going on in Canada and the US recently. There is a stereo inside the box, but it doesn't work.

So, buying stuff from guys in parking lots = bad idea.

 

[penkitten]

elaborate PK, its better...

i paid for transmission work, they quoted a cheaper price and when it would be done and it was more expensive and took a week longer, when i picked it up, i had to return it as it was not fixed. i had to return it 3 more times. i finally had to call bbb and attorney office to complain, and have a friend call to say she was my attorney, and they finally rented me a car as they repaired it correctly.
when i picked it up that day, the guy was such a a ss hole that he had to get into the car with me and my kids to test drive it, and the whole time b itched at me about calling people to help me, and tried his da mnedest to make me apologize... all i would say was i was sorry that he tried to rip off a little poor single momma, thinking she would not realize her transmission still wasn't working.
if i had lots of money, i would have spent it all on billboards about how cottman transmission ripped me off.

 

[HandyAndy]

Wow , whats with you buying fake gold chains?

 

[Aboleo]

I think most of us have. Hey, thats why I'm here... but I'm guessing that relationships don't count, huh?

 

[Ken785]

My cousin just brought home a divinci stereo today that he bought off a guy in a Safeway parking lot claiming that it was extra inventory. If it was real, it would have been a steal at $320. As it turns out, it is part of a big scam that has been going on in Canada and the US recently. There is a stereo inside the box, but it doesn't work.

So, buying stuff from guys in parking lots = bad idea.

My cousin bought a $1000 stereo for $320 once in a parking lot...it was real though...

 

[Ken785]

Wow , whats with you buying fake gold chains?

I dont know man...i was young and dumb and cant ever learn the lesson the first time...they looked real and had the little white stickers on them with bar codes so i thought it was real...plus they look so shiny when he showed them to me.

 

[Desdinova]

almost got scammed by a business called quixtar

Ah, the spawn of Amway (literally). I'm amazed that people fall for that 5hit, considering how expensive the products are. Sure, get advice from some guy dressed up nice with gold chains n 5hit, but find someone in real life who got rich with Amway / Quixtar.

Got an old school friend who's into that crap, and claims he's going to retire in two years. Yeah right

 

[MacAvoy]

Penzoil 30 minute Oil Change in Sudbury, On

Took my car in for an oil change, was hungry so went next door to Tim Horton's to grab a quick bite to eat. When I came back the car was outside already. Drove a plate to pick something up 45 mins out of town, got back to her place and the car was giving me problems.

Went to drive home, engine seized. They didn't put any oil in. I took it to dealership to have them inspect it, they confirmed, had the mechanic at dealership call and explain. They wouldn't do anything, they say there policy is to show dipstick to customer so they always put oil in. I explained next door situation, nadda.

One day if I pray to Jihad hard enough, there will be a random act of terrorism in Sudbury, On.

 

[DJDamage]

Wow some people never learn.

Never buy anything from someone who approaches you on the streets and you had no intention of buying the item in the first place. All the good street hustlers tend to approach those who they think they can easily hussle and then dissapear fast. A street hustler will either rob you blind or decieve you and usually any good deal that sounds too good to be true is probably is.

Always be suspecious and on guard if someone approaches you off the streets and offers to sell you something. They will try different tactics like an aggrassive salesman or pretend they are your friend, to make you believe you are getting a great deal but you aren't. A simple and firm "sorry I am not interested" or "I'm good no thanks", will get them off your back.

 

[bigjohnson]

I lost over $70K to a dishonest contractor on a building project. Learned en expensive lesson about money and business.

 

[g g g unit]

I lost over $70K to a dishonest contractor on a building project. Learned en expensive lesson about money and business.

Ouch, that made my eyes water.

Any whom i lost money a couple of time lending it to "friends" never huge amounts but i still never got paid back. That and drugs, always a rip off.

 

[Mr.Positive]

TIP from Mr.P: Don't pick up hitchhikers!! Especially HB hitchhikers.

I picked up a HB hitchhiker a long time ago on a long distance drive. During the 30 minutes she was in the car...she convinced me we had a "connection" together, next thing I know I'm getting a BJ from her while driving.

I dropped her off, and realized later that day that she had managed to take my wallet out of my pocket during the BJ, remove about 60 dollars, put the wallet back, and finish the BJ.

Funny enough, I'm actually glad she didn't take any credit cards, ATM, etc..she just took the money.

 

[I.A.F.Y.B.]

I just first want to say that we are all human, we've all done some very stupid things we wish we shouldn't have and wish we could take back, some of us make stupider mistakes then others, some of us make them more often than others....but we all learn from them...for some of us, it takes a few more times and we never learn the lesson the first time because of us being young,dumb,ignorant, or all three.

Was there ever a time in your life where you have been scammed or ripped off?? It has happened to most of us I'll bet...tell your story here...I think I've been ripped off the most being the young and dumb kid i was and still am to this day in a way, so I'll start first...

This one time when i was around 15, walking home from school and going by the grocery plaza on my way home... some black guy offered to sell me one and i told him to wait and that id go home and get the money and come back...he said he couldn't wait more than 5 minutes, i walked home and got $20 and walked back to the grocery plaza hoping he'd still be there but he left...i was saved by my own empty pockets.


The first time i got ripped off was when i was 15 and in high school...it was for a gold chain, and this black guy offered to sell it to me for about $35 as well and without question i just bought it, yep turns out it was fake....you would think i would learn from it right? Nope...happened 2 more times...

The second time i got ripped off was by another black dude walking around selling "Gold chains"....It also happened around the time i was 15 and in high school. It was when i was walking around San Francisco and this black guy was offering to sell me either a gold chain or a digital camera. I was interested in the gold chain, he said he "ordered it with a credit card"....i wanted it, but i was "smart" about it asking if i could put it under a lighter to see if it was real, i did...the gold was still there and got a deal for it for $35.

The third time was when i was 15 also when i was at my locker and this Filipino guy who's locker was next to mine offered to sell me a gold chain also saying he got it for his birthday and didn't want it, he showed me the scratch mark on it saying someone checked it already and that it was "real"...he said he just wanted $10 for it since he just wanted a 10 sack of weed. I bought it...tried to go to Sears jewelers to sell it, and they said it was fake and didn't want to take a look at it. I got ripped off again.



THEN...when i was around 19 years old....

I got ripped off again for $260 once. ATM scam. My old "friend"'s crack head girlfriend said she "didn't have any cash", so asked if she could write me a check so i can deposit it in the ATM machine and she can get the cash back....i fell for it, the stupid, young, dumb ignorant AFC i was. and a couple weeks later i got a letter in the mail from Bank Of America saying the check had bounced. I wanted to kill the b!tch....

Those were the days of my life where i was strung out on meth around the time i was 18-20, not good times. Did really stupid things in my life but i learned from them.

Another time, when i was 20 years old...

i also got ripped off for $200 for what i thought was a laptop. I was pumping gas a the gas station when i was approached by a black guy asking if i wanted to buy a laptop...i initially said i had no money and that i just came to pump gas but i asked how much anyway...he said $500....i took a look at it, he had pulled on out of the box...it looked kinda odd being the acessories looked kinda weird for ones that come with a laptop...i didnt bother to open the book...he had one "new" one sealed in the box and the open one...his other mexican friend said he worked at Circuit city or something in the back doing inventory...

so i got interested and said "I don't have $500 though" he said "well, how much u got?" i said $200. He said ok....

I told him to follow me so Safeway so i can go to the ATM...he did so, i pulled out $200 and he and his other friend seemed rushed and asked which one i wanted, the new one or open one? i said "Hold on...i want the new one" His friend was in the car yelling to hurry up and he seemed pissed to...i said "Open it first" So with an angry look on his face, he grabbed i razor blade from the car...the box seemed kind of odd with thick coated plastic on the outside covered with those "AOL Online" discs...i thought nothing of it thinking maybe they're packaged that way since ive never bought a laptop before...

then he took the razor blade and sliced the side of the box open to reveal a black object with Styrofoam covered around it....i said "OK and gave them the money...he left, then when i was driving home, i got a hunch to pull over and check it again.,..i pulled over to discover that the "laptop" was actually a black rectangle dummy made to look like a laptop,and the rest of the box was filled Styrofoam and newspapers.

I was pissed, and so embarrassed ive newer told anyone until this day.

Sounds like all the black guys are out to tip you off

 

[bigjohnson]

At least you got blown. I didn't get anything and I lost quite a lot of my time to recovering some of the money. In the end I got back $10K and spent probably 80 or 100 man hours fighting for that.

I should have suggested his 19 year old daughter just take it out in trade for the next 3 years or so. She was cute and he used her as project manager so it was partly her fault.

"Fix dinner and then get on your knees and get back to apologizing".

 

[MacAvoy]

Mr. Positive,

I would have been more than happy to be ripped off for $60 in that case. Well worth the fun times and the story to tell my buddies.

 

[Chaotixxx]

My cousin just brought home a divinci stereo today that he bought off a guy in a Safeway parking lot claiming that it was extra inventory. If it was real, it would have been a steal at $320. As it turns out, it is part of a big scam that has been going on in Canada and the US recently. There is a stereo inside the box, but it doesn't work.

So, buying stuff from guys in parking lots = bad idea.

LMAO, Someone sold me those bullshyt davinci speakers too. So lucky they caught me right after I cashed my check and I had lots of cash on me. I offered 100 bucks and he took it. When I got em home I went on google and found they were 30 dollar pieces of crap. I pawned the set for 60 bucks, so 40 dollar loss. But the lesson learned is priceless.

 

[Mr.Positive]

Mr. Positive,

I would have been more than happy to be ripped off for $60 in that case. Well worth the fun times and the story to tell my buddies.

Haha, yeah the power of female persuasion. At the time I couldn't believe it was happening. After I found out I was scammed, I felt like the biggest chump though.

I'm still wondering how in the hell she was able to pull that off...