Street Nawlidge!

I was out in Langley the other day, doing a little renovation shopping, when the lady and I were approached by a dude in a car. The car was beat up, filled with litter, and in the back, two home theater systems. By the time I got up by the passenger window, he was half way through his pitch, something about too many at the warehouse, and that his boss asked him to sell them. I guess people don’t buy from stores no more. He showed me a flyer, actually, it was more like a magazine, advertising the price of said unit. $3100. This dude with more lines than teeth was looking to make a pretty penny. ‘If I had my wish I’d get 600 for it’. So, this guy has already said that if this little deal goes a 100% his way, he’ll have sold the unit for a fraction of the price. Either, his math is poor or he doesn’t understand the idea of a profit margin. When I laugh, when he says 600, I ask him, ‘where the hell am I going to get 600dollars from?’. ‘At the bank’ he says so matter of factly, I chuckle again. I’m already thinking bricks in a box. As if he can read my thoughts, he asks me if he opens it up, and shows me its all for real, what’s the most I’d pay. I look at the box again, Panamax. That’s the brand. Panamax. I tell him I’ve never even heard of the brand. ‘Oh, you don’t follow the high end audio video stuff eh?’. Such a old school sales technique, leverage my pride and the 8 year old inside of me to pay top dollar. ‘Nope’ is my reply. The less I know about stuff, the better. He asks his question about price again, I tell him 100 bucks is the most. He doesn’t laugh, but simply says ooh I can’t do that. I’m still trying to figure out what the hell the brand is, and if it’s shitty, I don’t feel so bad that it cost me a c note. He comes back with how about 90% off? It’s at that point where I’m thinking, cocaine is a hell of a drug. I told him I’m not paying more than a hundred bucks for anything out of the trunk of a car. That may have offended him, or caught him by surprise that I called his shitbox a car. Needless to say, no sale was made. Doing a little research it seems he likely wasn’t a junkie after all, well, he probably was, this sale just wasn’t coming from a good old pang for crack. Its a sales ploy to sell very shitty electronics, namely a company like Panamax, making you feel like you’re getting some car box deal. Even the name is to insinuate its a combo of Panasonic and Imax.