White Van Man Scam - another one

NICHOLAS_2

I had a van man turn up at a place i worked a few years ago, asking the guys outside if they'd like to buy a nintendo wii that they had spare from a company delivery, or something like that. Had 2 of them he reckoned.

The lads outside thought they were a bargain at the £80 he was selling them for.

I never got to have a look, but the other lads kept saying nintendo wii £80 and i thought it was a bargain, so went to the ATM over the road and took out the money and bought it.

It wasn't until the guy had gone and we studied it properly that we realised it wasn't a wii, it was a second rate wii that sold for like £15 brand new. I think it was called a Wiii with three 'i's

Anyway, i was bugged. Thought to myself at the time, if i fell for it, someone else will too. So i stuck it on Ebay.

Didn't list it as a nintendo Wii, listed it in other game consoles and described it properly.

Sold it for £80, but after ebay fee's i was probably left with about £70, so i only lost a tenner. Dispatched it from work so i didn't pay postage either.

The lads at work took the mick out of me for being mugged and one said 'if you can sell that for £80 you should go on the bbc apprentice'

Too many con men out there. When someone approaches me to buy something i take no interest at all. I guess the experience could have been worse.

I blame my mates for confusing me though.

LikleSteph

This scam has literally just been tried on me! I work in Crewe on a business park and a man approached our office asking if anyone needed a new mattress as he has some for sale. His story was that the company he works for is based in Crewe (just round the corner) but they are about to go bust- so before someone comes to repossess their stock they are selling it off cheap cheap. I actually had a look at the mattresses in the back of his van - the one i wanted being £899.00 (double memory foam) but he said he would sell it to me for £140.00. I asked him if possible could he come back at lunch time so i would be able to nip to the cash machine - he said you can write me a cheque if you'd like and leave the name blank? I don't have a cheque book so i asked if i could take his number and i'll ring him at lunch time once i had been. He gave me his business card and said to ring him but waited on our business park trying to encourage other office's to buy his dodgy goods. I quickly ran upstairs to my boss and asked him if he would come and have a look at the mattress's just in case i was about to be ripped off. He had a quick look and told me not to buy one and that it was a white van man scam! On my boss's opinion i typed in the web address that was on the card that the man had given me (memorydreams) and low an behold this forum popped up! Thank God i got a second opinion, if not i would now be £140.00 short with a rubbish mattress......I thought i should probably post my experience as well just to make people aware that is is still happening and currently in the Crewe/Cheshire area. Keep your eye's peeled peeps x

Pinkypants

NICHOLAS wrote: »

I had a van man turn up at a place i worked a few years ago, asking the guys outside if they'd like to buy a nintendo wii that they had spare from a company delivery, or something like that. Had 2 of them he reckoned.

The lads outside thought they were a bargain at the £80 he was selling them for.

I never got to have a look, but the other lads kept saying nintendo wii £80 and i thought it was a bargain, so went to the ATM over the road and took out the money and bought it.

It wasn't until the guy had gone and we studied it properly that we realised it wasn't a wii, it was a second rate wii that sold for like £15 brand new. I think it was called a Wiii with three 'i's

Anyway, i was bugged. Thought to myself at the time, if i fell for it, someone else will too. So i stuck it on Ebay.

Didn't list it as a nintendo Wii, listed it in other game consoles and described it properly.

Sold it for £80, but after ebay fee's i was probably left with about £70, so i only lost a tenner. Dispatched it from work so i didn't pay postage either.

The lads at work took the mick out of me for being mugged and one said 'if you can sell that for £80 you should go on the bbc apprentice'

Too many con men out there. When someone approaches me to buy something i take no interest at all. I guess the experience could have been worse.

I blame my mates for confusing me though.

Too many con men out there and as you got ripped off you thought you'd do the same to someone else!! Shame on you.

DaveKettering

Well, what do you know, Steph! This weekend 27 September 2014, a couple of guys were in the Corn Market Hall rooms in Kettering, Northamptonshire NN15 7QA and they were selling quite nice looking wrapped mattresses for similar prices to the one you mentioned £80 for single, £140 for 4'6" double if I recall correctly. They had flyers posted around town on car windscreens and also on the entrances to the Corn Market Hall.
The guy said they were from NORTHAMPTON and they had just gone bust and were selling liquidated stock. I expressed interest but they did not take any payments. It was weird really. Why not take payemts if you are selling something? How are they going to take payments then? Cash on delivery? They said delivery was free. They had two smart vans around ther back with plenty of logos on them, something like Bed365 (not 100% sure about that so don't taje it as Gospel) and memorydreams.co.uk which I have checked is not a working website as of today 30/9/2014). They had an 0845 number and a mobile. 0845 626 2548 I think, oh my writing is so messy and an 07932 mobile number (I am not going to quote this because I can't read my own scruffy writing! I should have taken one of the flyers.)
They had the beds/mattresses set up in the room at the Corn Market Hall on Saturday 27 Septmber from about 10am to 6pm.

"19-08-2014 12:39 PM
LikleStephLiterally just happened to me!
This scam has literally just been tried on me! I work in Crewe on a business park and a man approached our office asking if anyone needed a new mattress as he has some for sale. His story was that the company he works for is based in Crewe (just round the corner) but they are about to go bust- so before someone comes to repossess their stock they are selling it off cheap cheap. I actually had a look at the mattresses in the back of his van - the one i wanted being £899.00 (double memory foam) but he said he would sell it to me for £140.00."

DaveKettering

LikleSteph wrote: »

This scam has literally just been tried on me! I work in Crewe on a business park and a man approached our office asking if anyone needed a new mattress as he has some for sale. His story was that the company he works for is based in Crewe (just round the corner) but they are about to go bust- so before someone comes to repossess their stock they are selling it off cheap cheap. I actually had a look at the mattresses in the back of his van - the one i wanted being £899.00 (double memory foam) but he said he would sell it to me for £140.00. I asked him if possible could he come back at lunch time so i would be able to nip to the cash machine - he said you can write me a cheque if you'd like and leave the name blank? I don't have a cheque book so i asked if i could take his number and i'll ring him at lunch time once i had been. He gave me his business card and said to ring him but waited on our business park trying to encourage other office's to buy his dodgy goods. I quickly ran upstairs to my boss and asked him if he would come and have a look at the mattress's just in case i was about to be ripped off. He had a quick look and told me not to buy one and that it was a white van man scam! On my boss's opinion i typed in the web address that was on the card that the man had given me (memorydreams) and low an behold this forum popped up! Thank God i got a second opinion, if not i would now be £140.00 short with a rubbish mattress......I thought i should probably post my experience as well just to make people aware that is is still happening and currently in the Crewe/Cheshire area. Keep your eye's peeled peeps x

Well, what do you know, Steph! This weekend 27 September 2014, a couple of guys were in the Corn Market Hall rooms in Kettering,
Northamptonshire NN15 7QA and they were selling quite nice looking wrapped mattresses for similar prices to the one you mentioned
£80 for single, £140 for 4'6" double if I recall correctly. They had flyers posted around town on car windscreens and also on the
entrances to the Corn Market Hall.
The guy said they were from NORTHAMPTON and they had just gone bust and were selling liquidated stock. I expressed interest but they
did not take any payments. It was weird really. Why not take payemts if you are selling something? How are they gonna take payments
then? Cash on delivery(?) They said delivery was free. They had two smart vans around ther back with plenty of logos on them,
something like Bed365 (not 100% sure about that and memorydreams.co.uk which I have checked is not a working website as of today
30/9/2014). They had an 0845 number and a mobile. 0845 626 2548 I think, oh my writing is so messy and an 07932 mobile number (I am
not going to quote this because I can't read my own scruffy writing! I should have taken one of the flyers.)
They had the beds/mattresses set up in the room at the Corn Market Hall and they looked OK. Who's to know?

dacouch

This was covered on the Jeremy Vine show today, basically a lot of the mattresses are either given much higher price ticket prices than their value. Or they were old second hand mattresses that had been given a new outer cover and sometimes they had gone to the trouble of rep[lacing damaged springs but mostly just recovered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hc4dk

Kaimoo

We had this twice, same guy £100 each time but always declined. They looked like decent quality but there either stolen or there junk or probably failed quality control somewhere

RaJack

:eek::eek: White Van man -struck again in Merseyside selling cheap mattresses:eek: :eek:Today 17:00 called me over to the van and told me the lady with the horses down the road was buying one. Double from £895 to £180 and single £110 He gave me a cheap business card and said his company was in receivership and he was selling off his stock. I didnt buy anything.

peter_the_piper

The mattress business must be very precarious as they be to be always going bust.

A042

Okay - So a few months ago in West Yorkshire someone who was Irish did the doorbell and was selling memory foam mattresses out of a white van, don't even think he told a story, anyway I bought a mattress for £100, he was asking for more but I had £100 on me and wasn't interested in paying anything more, the mattress had the sticker Cozy Dreams on it

As far as the mattress goes, it's fine and does the job. I didn't expect it to be anything great but for me it was perfect timing, I sleep fine on the mattress and for £100 it was worth it,the funny thing is that whole week I was complaining to my family that I need to buy a new mattress which I usually get from the road at a local bed shop and their normal mattress are £150 so for me it was right. My old mattress was literally ripped apart and springs totally gone so I needed one and whether it is a scam... low quality or something else it does the job.

Anyway I made the post because I saw another post when someone was asking about the quality and if it is worth it