0:00 and I was telling him I was like yeah I actually was trying to buy one and I got ripped off and he goes and he looked at me and goes you got to always check if the thing actually turns on [Music] welcome back to another episode of careful boy that's right uh where today we have Anthony Joe Nick Bart Steve Green and myself let's talk about um don't let this trigger your rage but let's talk about a time where you genuinely got ripped off oh dude whether it was from a scam whether you got Short Change whether a deliverable didn't have I got one I bought a ████ I was trying to buy is it during the pandemic I was trying to buy a PS4 of OfferUp this is my first
0:50 time buying something and it was like 200 bucks or something I was a good price so I met this dude at a ████ I met this dude at a CVS and he sent me a video of like yeah see it works and I was like all right cool grabbed it and then I went home and I was like can't wait to play my ████ PlayStation plugged in doesn't turn on uh at all and I was like what the ████ and I was like what a ████ idiot I'm like I was so mad that's not even the worst part this is the worst part I went to go buy another one and um I bought another one and I go I pulled her up again offer up again I pull up and it's this little Indian kid he's right there and I'm like what's up man he's like I'm here to buy that he's like you're for the PlayStation on my yep he's like come on in and I was like talk to him and he's like he's actually kind of funny and I was telling him I was like yeah I actually was trying to buy one and I got ripped
1:40 off and he goes and he looked at me and goes you got to always check if the thing actually turns on I was like yeah totally yeah totally man and then I walked out and I was like damn this even this ████ 15 year old knows how to buy a PlayStation better than a ████ 30 year old man so ████ I was like I felt like such a ████ idiot I was like and you get home you plug it in it he goes come on in I'll show you that it turns on okay and that's what he said to me and I was like oh and I was telling him I was like I got ripped off and he goes yeah you always gotta ████ check dodo bird what are you ████ ████ and I was like yeah I totally did I am I am immoral let me let the ████ page here's
2:32 your money thank you I price gouged myself oh that's cool I willingly bought something expensive during covet which was weights in a barbell oh those things that set was like I think 200 something brand new and I got it for like 800 bucks whoa brand new it was 200 something yeah holy ████ and I didn't even get the 45 plates with it it's just because it was inflated in in price at the time yeah I got everything else but the 45 plates and I was like well it's a set it's got the weights then I went over and then that guy I bought it that's the one you helped me sold and then he was like you got any more friends and stuff that want gym equipment and I'm like you can get more of this ████ yeah during covet I don't know what it was but people want fitness equipment so much that people
3:23 that weren't even in Fitness for hitting me up like yo if I order a palette full of gym equipment would you help me sell it what do you mean you don't know what it was gyms were closed here's all of the inquiries for those weights people got that into gym equipment because like remember those the adjustable dumbbells those were some they're like you give me like 300 bucks they were selling for like twelve hundred dollars of them that's why people kept asking why there weren't any Ford fives yeah yeah and you're never getting this for 10 years I'm never getting Animal Crossing for your and you're never getting the the Nintendo switch branded Animal Crossing that was like you might as well lick a guy's butthole and suck his dick for ████ 20 years because you're never gonna pay for it did you guys get into animal s scam I want to say six months or so ago I was
4:16 buying a van and um it was just regular Facebook in Hawaii yeah in Hawaii and then um it was just a like a Honda Odyssey and it was for a good price it was like I want to say like five six grand so I was like oh ████ cool you know and then call them up and then they call me back and then we play phone tag and then she was like oh um we're about to move out so my husband's leaving we're gonna leave the island um so we just have it parked on the street here you know where this place is I'm like I know exactly where it's at I'll go meet you up so we go these two girls pull up in like a Kia and then she goes oh that's the van so we go up I inspect the van and this thing is like kind of ████ up mechanically like the radiator I know something like I opened
5:06 it up and the radiators like leaking like there's some major ████ that needs to be fixed so I drive it around the block but the first thing that kind of makes me feel odd is like I turn on the AC because you got to turn on the AC and everything right and then she goes oh can you turn that off um I get allergies and I'm like oh okay so I turn it off that is weird so I turned out I opened up all the windows right you step outside now I'll keep you I'll stay inside let's go play so I was like oh allergies right and then so she stays in the van with me we do a quick little Loop and I'm like all right yeah it works but man the alignment's off something's off and I'm like damn this is really not worth it because I'm gonna have to do a lot of work and I'm like but if you give me a good ass deal I get it you know and I'll and then I was just like how about like 3K because this Pro this thing is probably gonna cost me
5:57 like 10K to fix up or whatever like it's too much right it does maybe like I could flip it or whatever I'm just giving her out it's giving her ████ allergies yeah you have the windows down which doesn't give her allergies but the air conditioner gets right it's a lot of work I wasn't really thinking I wasn't really thinking because all I was thinking about in my head was the mechanical issues and I'm like is it gonna be worth it to fix this thing that's what I was thinking in my head so um I we get in her car right and I'm in the back seat and then I'm um we agree on a deal I think it was like 4K or something like that I'm counting the money out and then first thing I notice is when I'm in her car the AC is on full blast and I'm like you just told me to turn off the AC I'm thinking that right and then I go hey um
6:49 let's write up a little like contract because I need to I need to do this all the time anyway right so then um I go I uh name bill of sale bill of sale that's pretty common right so I told her to write it when I got it there were like information missing and like the VIN and all that and I'm like what the ████ and I'm like show me the pink slip and then so the pink slip shows up and I'm like so you said this is your husband's and she goes yeah and I'm like oh okay cool all I need is the ID so I can put my ID and his ID together and we take a picture of it and it has to match the pink slip and she goes
7:41 so I'm like this doesn't sound right right and then she's all like yeah um and I'm all like did you pay like all the red like current registration because I just noticed that the tags off in date so I'm like what if this ████ has all these like back taxes and all these things and once they sell it to me I'm like ████ right back registration yeah she goes no no she goes I got everything we could take this to the DMV whatever and I'm like okay I don't know if I want to pay 4K for this ████ no more this seems like a big ass headache right and I'm looking at all this stuff and I'm like yeah you know what get your um husband's ID and you can tell him to take a picture even if he's not here just send it to your phone and then send it to me and then we'll make a deal and I'm like if you can't find anybody's ID your name doesn't match I don't know who this pink slip belongs to
8:31 yeah so I'm like no deal and she goes are you sure I'll give it to you for a better price and I'm like oh nah bad answer right so I get out and I thought the weirdest thing was like as soon as I got in the car she ████ peeled out and she boned out and I was like you know what this van is still in front of me so I got the uh license plate and I looked it up to see if there was any like if it was stolen or whatever I have a cop buddy out there I told him to go check it if it's stolen or anything and it had the ████ most like a thousand bucks for this thing this builds a ticket that was unpaid it was all this ████ on it and I was like dude and on top of that another fishy thing is these girls were clearly like Eastern European or something and they said they were local
9:22 they don't speak pigeon they don't yeah like die hard villains dude and I was like we're I was like aloha we are from Idaho come on come on brother I was like I said and then I was like you guys grew up here they're like yeah and I'm like cool where are you from who hasn't we are from McDonald's oh they're like they're like yeah we're from here I'm like where locals Place Zippy's locals Place yeah they said locals please yeah this episode is brought to you by dragons can you believe we've had seven months without an NFL game crazy right
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11:54 yeah they do it to old people they're selling fake gold um or they put it on people and say please I need gas money can you give me cash I'll give you this cheap jewelry whatever right and then like there's been a string of cons that were happening and I think those girls were uh trying to sell off a ████ up car that they got yeah so it's like I probably should have got it for like 500 bucks to be honest I could have dealt with all that but she wasn't willing to go under three yeah I think they still had a price yeah Joe ████ Joe man yeah they gave you that offer though they said they would go for a cheaper price and you're like nah dude I'm not gonna take care they wouldn't go under three really yeah so I was like ████ that it's not worth it greedy bastards yeah you have to make the I was just worried it was stolen so I had my buddy run the plates and it wasn't so I was like well I would have taken it for
12:45 500 bucks but damn there was a there was a point where I bought a um I bought an iPhone where um I wanted to upgrade to the newest one because mine had got a cracked screen so I was like oh let me see on um on what was let go at the time and if there was like a freaking cheap phone for the next one and I got one and then I realized uh that I could just replace mine through insurance I didn't know I had it so I was like oh ████ now I got this phone that I don't need I bought it from like some Asian guy right here in Alhambra um he just seemed like a normal dude and then when I when I tried to sell the phone because I didn't need it anymore I met up with this like nice Armenian father and son like it was like his kid's first phone and he was like super excited but they wanted to do the uh purchase legitly where you go to the actual like T-Mobile store and you do it there place the SIM cards yeah exactly
13:35 yeah and we did it there and then when they tried to activate the phone that I bought it came up as stole oh so I looked like the ████ thing no yeah oh damn and it was the worst feeling yeah I did yeah I just felt like running dude wait is it because your phone that you bought was stolen you didn't know I never activated it I bought it from a guy thinking I was gonna use it but then I got insurance to cover my phone anyway so I never activated so when that happened were they like uh we can't have this what would they like now you give it to me for Better Price they didn't even say they just looked at me and they were just like like speechless and they're just like I'm sorry I bought it for someone I never I just said what I like the truth yeah but who ████ who the ████ would say but then again why would you like go down like why would you go
14:25 it's a stolen phone I mean I guess they just think I'm a stupid criminal yeah you know what I mean that was the worst feeling man I was living in Koreatown and my roommate was moving out my girlfriend uh and I had broken up and my roommate who's like we moved to LA together with my girlfriend so it was like it was really the ultimate breakup right so I was like okay ████ I gotta find a new roommate or whatever I'm gonna keep my spot so then um I put out ████ on Craigslist and everywhere and all that all the different places I get a response from some chick and she's like yeah hi I'm looking for a place to live this will be great um I want to move all my furniture though I live in like Europe and I want to move all my furniture here so I'm gonna give you a check and I need you to like I'm gonna give
15:15 you a check you go put it in the bank and then I need you to give me a cashier's check oh yes sir a deposit scam and it's gonna bounce on you it's gonna bounce on me but but she'll get my money via Western Union which is what she demanded you I need Western Union so bad it has to happen quick and I was like I don't know what the ████ any of this means but I'm down I was 23 and I was like sure I'm down and then I was just I just when I was walking to the bank I had the worst feeling about it I was like this just feels awful but I don't know what the scam is yet because I wasn't I wasn't sophisticated about anything having to do with money yet at all so you didn't know checks could bounce no I knew checks could bounce but I didn't know that like she gave me a check for like five G's so it felt legit it felt legit and she had sent me like pictures and like it just
16:06 seemed like a real human being because it probably was a real scammer on the other end but then as soon as I um went got to the bank I remember handing the clerk the check and be like hey deposit this and then I remember being like okay I'll do the Western Union thing after work because it's like on the other side of town and then I remember like getting back to my job and being like okay I'm sorry I have to leave and I went right back to the bank and I said that's a fraudulent check cancel it and then I well I went to Craigslist and I searched for dick pics and then I I found a picture of a I found a picture of a guy's dick he like had a gut and he had like a micropenis and then dude that's the front of the perfect
16:56 place to find dick pics that is the best place for a wall amateur Craigslist yeah and then I sent back I was like I sent this girl right um I was like Hey I just did the Western Union thing just want to let you know what you're looking forward to [Laughter] and then Bank of America confirmed to me like within three business days that it was a fake checking yeah dude Good Thing Man good thing that would have been a really ████ sad thing yeah especially back when there's not enough money to go around like I credit my mother because she always said trust your gut and I just had the most Eerie feeling about it yeah yeah the last time I almost got scammed was I think this could be maybe 2003 2004 2005 maybe damn you went nearly 20 years
17:46 unscathed huh you ████ smart guys and then uh it was because uh so I was super into cars I'm still into cars but I've always like fixing up cars and I had a buddy that was really deep into the car scene and so he like he knew all the hookups like he knew the whole so like the system of how to like get your car sponsored like fully Decked Out is and he learned it probably three cars in once you start building all the relationships what you do now is you pitch to all this is before the internet obviously but you pitch to all the car the k n air filter look at the Flowmaster yeah Toyo Tires whatever you pitch to all the companies I already have a three-page spread in the next Import Tuner they're super down because it costs like 10 G's per page to get uh if they were
18:37 to buy ads but if they just give you free product they're getting three pages for like a thousand or two thousand dollars better than an ad yeah so my friend he he knew this whole system and he had like a whole thing of uh networks already so I had this like lower truck that I was trying to get wheels for and he's like I'll hit up my buddy he can get you like a crazy deal and these wheels I think they're probably retail for like four grand at that time and I could get them for I think like 2500 or something like that so I met up with his friend his friend owns a uh his family owns a restaurant a Vietnamese restaurant in Rosemead and so I cut him a check and then I thought I asked him if am I going to get a receipt or whatever and he was like oh no don't worry like these this is has to be one of those things that's like under like not on the books because it's not
19:27 authorized whatever and I told my friend that who's really so I'm really tight with my friend and he told me that other guy's really tight with him so I'm like okay if that's if there's two levels of tightness like No One's Gonna screw each other because we're all really really close and I told my friend I'm like is that true is that how it works and he goes ah sometimes it could be like that like sometimes like you know people like that are negotiating they'll get a couple of things off the back end but they can't really have it in the book so they'll just the main company will claim it as losses or whatever so maybe he's hooking you up that way I mean okay cool these are custom wheels made specifically for this car that won't fit on any other car so it takes like eight weeks to make because they have to like literally Forge the rim yeah I remember eight weeks I'm already buying it I remember eight weeks pass by I hit him up oh yeah you give him like the runaround then another like month
20:19 goes by then he starts ghosting me I don't know what the ████ happening I hit up my friend my friend to hit him up I'm like I don't know what's going on am I like annoying him like he has like half of my money which is the deposit he he ends up telling me that guy's not responding him too and it drags on for maybe like I would say four months and then when you're like early college a couple Grand is a ████ ton you know and I'm like holy ████ and then so like I'm like dude what the ████ do I do I also promised myself I'm gonna live a good life because my urge is to go to the parents restaurant and just destroy the whole thing and I'm like but I told myself after the Marine Corps I'm not gonna do anything crazy like that anymore and I'm like should I like find out where he lives and beat the ████ out of him I don't know and I'm like just like have like this this internal yeah and you're like how long does it take to forge a wheel
21:10 exactly am I getting scammed question yeah and I'm like what the and I talked to my friend and now my friend it has lost has lost lost complete connection with that guy and I've lost complete connection and um I remember feeling pretty desperate but not knowing what to do and then all of a sudden I think like six to ten months in I get a phone call from a random shop in like West Covina and like hey we have your wheels and I was like what the ████ like I almost killed you for these and then so I went to the I went to that place and then I was like the other guy the guy's name was Jimmy I went to the place I was like so is Jimmy here like whatever and he's like no just uh we don't really talk to him anymore he just he just randomly told us and he says your wheels are here so I ended up getting my wheels there's legit it ended
22:00 up falling through I don't know what happened if I had to like like eight weeks and you never talk to them ever again ever and were the wheels as good as he had said yeah because it's from a legit company so he was probably doing some shady ████ got caught or something so imagine like Jimmy like it's not bulk but like it's like a company like Volk yeah and then so it's like a legit company and then you just know someone that's like really deep into it so you just know you're not like it just it was such a weird interaction I don't know if it was like Jimmy's own personal life got the best of him so he was like oh ████ I'm short on cash let me just take this money real quick and do something and maybe he never actually put in the order for my wheel and then he was thinking something was going to come back some other thing but then finally I was able to get those Wheels
22:52 put on and I was just like that was so crazy I bought these helium miners called Panther miners during the oh yeah they they never came right so like I bought these miners for helium like which is a crypto that's right yeah and I I spent like I don't know probably 600 a piece on them so 1200 bucks right and I remember like I was like okay I have a plan like during the bear Market I'm Gonna Be Mine helium no problem so I already had two miners just that I had bought already and actually I had three I got three miners I bought already and I was gonna have five for the for the Bear right so then um yeah these two Panther miners I got from this place in China I was like where the ████ are the miners and they're like oh no we sent them it's all good here's a tracking number and ████ and I'm waiting waiting three months goes by I'm like where the ████ are the reminders and like they're
23:42 in Indianapolis and I'm like that's ironic but okay and then I um they said that there was a customs issue with them and I was like you guys are ████ me around dude you guys are full of ████ and ████ me around I would have believed it yeah I'm an idiot dude well I right but they said there were I had to submit something to customs like about my personal whatever the ████ to release them to release them yeah from custody or whatever and then they said I had just missed the window so they were being shipped back to ████ China what the f and then yeah and then I was like just give me my money back ████ you guys dude and by this point like everything was like dead in crypto and I was like just give me my money back I could spin it up anyway and then like they're like oh sir you're you know we still haven't received the miners yet we're waiting three weeks ago I get a knock on the door at like 10 in the morning and
24:33 there's a there's a FedEx guy and it's like back to the ████ future too it's like we had a bet down at the yard it's like it's raining we had a bent out of the office uh wow this guy reached out we were told to bring these things to a guy named Steve at this place in Las Vegas and I'll be dead they lost the ████ bet and they gave me this box that looked like it like went like through hell yeah yeah they got my ████ miners dude the reason why I didn't buy it is because there were so many people complaining that they never got it but some people got it but they were talking about how it was like so difficult that's why I never bought it
25:27 how I feel about that we'll see I'm not like not stoked about it's not cardano I don't hate Salon I hate card I don't know I feel good about it what would you have done it was cardano rage but I would never have bought it so yeah yeah but yeah I got it but yeah the guy couldn't believe it he was like we've been we've been having bets about this thing I'll be damned I guess I lost it's like compared to the Future too I got something for you yeah so yeah dude these are the best stories that I've got [Music]
26:19 thank you
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