Man Disguises Oven Door as HDTV; Tries to Sell it
Well done.
There are always scams going on for people trying to cheat others out of money. And sometimes these scams are entertaining. Such is the story of a man in San Leandro, Calif. who tried to sell an oven door as a 37-inch HDTV.
Of course, the oven door was disguised the best it could be as an LCD TV, being covered in plastic wrap and bearing stickers commonly found on new HDTVs, such as "Full HD 1080." In fact, it even had a Best Buy price tag attached on it.
The man was reported to be selling the TV from out of his beige 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Check out the goods below:
What do you think? Know anyone who would fall for it?
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and I have Ford Pinto disguised as a Lamborghini
Definitely an old person.
Old news, but still funny
"I have a deal so hot that it blows the doors off of those big retailers..."
It's clever, but who would buy a TV from the back of someones car? I could see someone falling for it though.
that tv sucks it only picks up food network
Hahaha I get the picture
Funny...
Yesterday @ lunch i went to McD's drive through, while i was waiting a Van pulls up and the guy trys to sell me a "$3000 home stereo" haha hes like, "it was a shipping error".
At first I was tempted to look it over... ultimatly i didnt go for it. Got a big mac meal instead.
FAIL. =D
if that "TV" was sold for $9.99, i would have bought it just to appreciate his effort...
p.s. yes i was making fun of earlier Bestbuy TV sale....
Nice. I have a TV just like that on my oven but it is only standard def and the only channel it gets is the food network. Maby I need an upgrade.
I heard this on the news a couple of days ago. It was an old man trying to get paid...LOL
I can hear the sales pitch now...
"It can even play Crysis!"
I would be PIIIIIIIISSED. I seriously would smash that fuckers car in with it. C'mon, if it looked legit, and you were eager, how would you know? I'm not saying that POS in the picture up top but what if it were a closed box? Looked brand new? Maybe you thought it was hot (No pun intended) and you took a chance? Shiit dawg, death be to the driver.
sounds like a red neck guy
I would be PIIIIIIIISSED.
Agree..
That is why we buy our TV and computer/parts from a store or well known online retailer, not from an old Oldsmobile in a Wal-Mart parking lot...lol
I have to admit that that guy is very creative. by the way... what happen to his doorless oven at home? became to an indoor griller?...
lol
"by the way... what happen to his doorless oven at home? became to an indoor griller?."
Who ever said it was his over door?
probably a nigger
the real article says he was trying to sell it for "$100 bucks" haha that's probably less than the price of the over door!
True story, straight from the tech. A few years back a lady was shopping at a tech retail chain. The salesman was either stupid, or he was willing to agree with anything to get a customer out of his hair.
Tech support got a phone call from an elderly woman requesting that a repair man come out and check her TV. She had brought it home from the store and plugged it in, but she'd never been able to get a picture on it.
The repair man went to the lady's house and sure enough there was the offending device, sitting on its stand in the living room. He noticed the cable hadn't been attached to it, so he began looking around for the coax jack. He couldn't find it.
In his searching he DID notice a button marked "open". He pressed it, and to the amazement of the elderly woman the face of her "television" popped open with a "ding". He turned to her and said "congratulations ma'am, you bought a lovely microwave oven."
@joe_gee
Ummm, how did the repair man not know it was a microwave right off the bat? Even with old tv's and microwaves, there is a pretty big difference. lol
Darn Hippies
@joe_geeUmmm, how did the repair man not know it was a microwave right off the bat? Even with old tv's and microwaves, there is a pretty big difference. lol
Some late 80s' microwave has wood veneer casing. It might take the rapair man 10 seconds before he realize its not a TV.
That's one big ass oven door, jeez. But its not bad look for Tv I mean oven door.
Gives new meaning to the term: TV Dinner.
Gotta give the guy props, people will try anything these days with the economy the way it is.
If he sold it for $9.99, Dell probably would have complained that it was a pricing error.
happens with laptops all the time, in NYC and London...there's a brick or a piece of metal in the box.
Forget falling for it or not... I wouldn't pay the price he seems to be asking anyways. lol Look at that price sticker! $1949? for a 37"? Really?
Take the vehicule plate number... call the cops with my cell... seing someone taking is legs at his neck and being unable to make me pay for it... priceless...
Nice touch with the remote and component cables. From the pic above I would believe it's a TV. I wonder how long it would take me to spot it in real life.