WTF is right!!!!!!!!

they were going to car jack your plymouth wagon with the simulated wood sides.

 

Good thing you paid for your 1.800.goombah service this month!

--Dan

 

Mama Vader didn't raise no dummy.

 

Wait a minute while I get out my little friend.

Florida - conceal and carry State.

By a strange coincidence carjackings have become quite rare...

 

i agree. i would have put them both in the trunk. i have FAA airport ID too.... Government Contracts have perks ........

 

i had the exact same routine run on me - just down the road from you in manhattan beach.

i hated the vibe so i got the hell out of dodge, but i never could figure out the scam.

what's the scam on this one?

 

I'm thinking if you look in the trunk, they'll push you in...?

That or a Leprechaun was going to jump out and scare you.

 

It's the old "Lock the Sith Lord in the Trunk and Charge Ransom for his Release Trick."

It is a good thing your momma made you smart!

 

I woulda thrown in two bits.

 

I am curious as to what the jist of the scam was. Kudos to you for bailing. I would too, seriously who wears Armani anymore (I am a designer, I can say that without being GHEY). Do you think they were trying to unload closeout "name brand suits" or trying to car jack you? LAX right? Who comes to visit LA and buys "Italian" suits here to take it back to Italy? WTF!! I've been the victim of 2 car-jack attempts and at this point find the thought process they go thru rather amusing.

 

My dad and I were outside of Harrod's a few years ago in London when an Italian guy pulled up to the sidewalk and started asking us for directions. This was obvioulsy a plow to look legitimate. He then said how he had his wallet stolen from him earlier in the day and that he needed some money to fill up so he could get to the airport and return his rental car.

My dad speaks a little Italian and was able to communicate with him. He said he was just leaving a fashion expo at Harrod's for Valentino and wondered if we wanted to give him 50 pounds for 2 Valentino suade jackets he had.

He begged, showed us his Italian passport and plane tickets, then showed us the jackets.

Needless to say, they were suspect. Since I didn't understand the conversation I jumped in an demanded my dad explain what he wanted. I told my dad this guy was obviously full of it and we needed to get on our way ASAP. Somehow he convinces my dad he is legit, and to my dismay, gets the cash off of my dad. But somehow the cash ended up being 115 pounds!!!

I told my dad I couldn't believe he had done it. So we go into Harrod's and I ask someone working there, 'hey so please tell me there was a Valentino expo today."

Response? "What? We haven't had one in months!"


Crap.

 

I would bet that they were attempting to carjack (that's a funny word!) you. Or they could be volunteer workers for Armani For Humanity. Hmmm..I would go with the first option.

 

I had the same deal happen here in Md. Same MO. Had to get to the airport and customs bs. His deal was he would give me one and sell me the rest (4 or5) for dirt cheap. I think the scam is they aren't the real deal. Probably $100 worth of no name jackets with fake labels. My guy even had a few leather ones that he proceded to hold a bic lighter under to show me that they are treated with something that won't let them burn. I guess the white van speaker job ain't working anymore!

 

Jeff!!! The guy in London did the EXACT same thing with a lighter! Hilarious!

It was supposed to prove that it was some new type of ultra-suade. What a crock!

LMAO

 

Ok this EXACT same thing happened to me in San Jose. I pulled some cash from the ATM and was heading to my car and he comes up to me talking in Italian and saying how we are buds because I drive a Ferrari and he is Italian.

I did look at his wares. He told me he was done showing them to the merchants at the mall and he did not want to carry them back with him. He had no more use for them, but they were worth "thousands" so I was very lucky to have this opportunity.

The jackets had "Armani" labels and the "Versace" labels and buttons but it was all obviously junk because of the poor leather. He wanted something crazy like $1000 for 3 leather jackets. When I told him they looked fake and the quality was poor, he fed me some BS say they were prototypes and they were used to get advance orders from merchants.

Maybe if he sold for $80-100 he could people needing a new leather jacket to bite.

I think this guy sells four or five jackets a day and makes a very good living at it.

 

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=442532003

http://starbulletin.com/2003/10/14/news/story4.html

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff134587.htm

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff138608.htm

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134747144&postcount=19

 

Hey Darth the same thing happened to my dad
and it was the same car
a chrysler 300

and he said it was 2 guys

except they approached him in a parking lot
asking if my dad was italian
which he is
and they asked for directions
but they were asking him to come out of his car
and point it out on a map

my dad offered to tell them but...would not get out of his car
he saw them again in the same area
in socal
and they tried it again and to other people

 

Still trying to figure out why you even humored them..

I think this is a car-jack scheme as Joe Average would leave the car running while he checks out the loot in the trunk-- the passenger takes off with your ride, foreign salesman leaves in his rented (with a stolen CC) car and you're left walking. CLK is in a shipping container in LB before you can blink.

 

Time for some F-Chat justice?
These people must be stopped. Even if they aren't dangerous, there's no excuse for a phony Italian accent.

 

I wonder if it had Wyoming plates?