Story time: The most brilliant IRL exit scam I've ever witnessed

A post on another topic reminded me of this story. Happened over a decade ago. This is also the only IRL exit scam I've ever seen pulled off.

Dude posted up shop in major city. Gets settled in amongst the underground scene, has fire molly. He's got the best shit in the game, hands down, and it stays this way for months.

Finally one day he announces he's getting out of the game and has a firesale. No one questions the authenticity of the product as it's been great for months with no fail.

My buddy ends up picking up two ounces off the guy for like 900 a piece, gets home, and it's fucking ROCK CANDY that someone had braised with a torch to give it that brownish hue.

Guy dips, never to be seen again.

Fucking genius exit scam.

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[116 Points] GDSGFT2SCKCHSRS:

Many moons ago I was heavily involved in the procuring and redistributing glass among the low life's, street urchins, and the dirtbags of my general area. So naturally I was at the tweeker Mecca aka the local Indian bingo casino doing my usual canvassing the perimeter when I meet a dude I'd never met before. I don't usually talk to strangers but this guy was funnier than a motherlover. Turns out we are in the same niche market and we start giving each other the how much do you pay for a zip, and how good is the quality type questions. He tells me he wants to try something new and I tell him I do too. So we decided to trade an 8ball for an 8ball straight across and when I go to a bathroom stall to check it out and snort a blast I am pleasantly surprised. It burned like a bitch and was was easily 5x better than my own supply and I was instantly geeksquad employee of the year. To top it off he sells the 8 ball for$30 cheaper than I do.(this is back when 8balls were $200+in SoCal) So I tell him that his shit is decent and maybe I will hit him up for more in a couple days. Then he lays this shit on me. He tells me that he lives in San Diego and had just came out to do some business up here and he is heading back tonight with no idea when he would be back in town. So I tell him to hook me up with a whole zip and he tells me he has it in his car which is parked in the valet lot and we can meet up out in the regular parking lot where I'm parked. So here's the meat of the story, I'm sitting in my car and he pulls up next to me in a brand new range rover. He pulls up right to my window but our cars are pointed in opposite directions. He rolls his window down and throws a bag of flaming hot Cheetos in my window. I scoped it out and inside there's no Cheetos just a fat bag of criddle that I eyeballed as easily a zone. It's fat and shardy as fuck so I quickly slide him the cash. He tells me that casino police are always jamming people up because they know what kind of people come here and what they are into so we better bounce. When I get home I bust out what he gave and my diamond scale to get the official weight. But upon further inspection what he had actually given me was a ounce of rock salt. The kind that people put in fancy salt water fish tanks. That was a $900 mistake that still pisses me off. I remember it was right after the world trade center terrorist attacks because I told my girl what had happened and she was like "FUCK! First 9/11 happened and now this! " As you could probably guess dudes phone number was disconnected about a week later. I have since vowed that if I ever see him or someone who closely resembles him that I would dispatch him with the quickness. But I have to admit that motherfucker was a cool customer. A lot of things had to go just right in order for the bait and switch to be successful. From me having the cash on me to me impulse buying to me not demanding to try it before I paid for it etc.etc. I didn't have the slightest inkling that I was being grifted. To all you up and coming dirt merchants remember to keep that head on a swivel bitch because them streets is a motherfucker.


[27 Points] None:

There is a very real exit scam being played out right now in the ski industry. This one company took in a shitload of pre-orders (order the skis before they're even built) last august. They were supposed to ship them out around Nov but never did. After months of excuses they dropped off the face of the earth, nobody got their skis. As of nearly a year after the fact, nothing has been done about it. They knew a bunch of crusty broke skiers were not about to sue them, and so far they have been right. Probably made off with at least a half a mil


[19 Points] John-Gaudy:

Back in the day the crew I was with had our area on lock and we would have these little meetings to do shit like set prices so we weren't undercutting each other etc. It was the same thing, we would have all these people waiting on the new batch of pills or whatever and we often talked about pressing up some bulshit and geting out of the business and drop a bunch of fake pills all at once. On a side note my friend actually sold 1000 blue vitamins to some rich kids he was calling "blue berries". I guess conveniently they were pressed with little blue berries on the top. Probably some anti oxident bs. And that was back when you could get $9.00 per on a thousand E pills.


[13 Points] BrodyBrah:

I thought street dealers did this all the time

My old friend group used to ride with this one slightly sketchy dealer, out of the endless supply in any city, and for while he always had fuego everything. Seemed thick/genuine, got us all high for free all the time. Hell even paid for my best friend to go to a festival and help him move. One week hes suddenly moving to Colorado, and the day before hes going he needs to get into my homies house for some reason while he isnt there. When my friend gets home there is sugar/baking soda all over his counters. Turns out he made his final rounds before dipping, and needed to borrow a cup of sugar to finish fucking up his reputation. Granted anyone who bought his shit without really looking at it was still an idiot


[14 Points] SpecialAgentDildo:

I wish I had 2 zips of rock candy right now. That shit is delicious


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[11 Points] None:

Im having a hard time understanding who is who in this story.


[4 Points] None:

Used to post on topix. Send freebees of onax. Build a site. Be legit 2-3 months. Send out group email of huge sale on Friday shutdown site Monday with FBI.jpeg. Of coarse I went to western union and picked up all that money with test and answer question.

Rinse and repeat. Miss those 25k weeks.


[4 Points] louthecokedealer:

2 ounces of rock candy is better than nothing.


[3 Points] bobbiggs69:

Well, rock candy is pretty fucking good.


[2 Points] Cpuckett812:

How could you read through that?


[1 Points] Kilo_Of_Kittymine:

and the greatest trick he pulled on man was convincing them, he sold real mollly lul


[1 Points] satoshi2017:

chronicpain/flush used to tell a much better story about a Canadian scam (those with ears will recall how it allowed someone clever to find out his identity).


[1 Points] crystalchemist:

The guy knew his time was up and cashed out lol


[-5 Points] rndm13586:

there was a dude lets say called ac who had company small webdesign carseling so long avarage js skills got a great deal something like cloud and whatever woked gread long period in the paradise he lived afford many cars houses many more but never knowed goodly whats on with cloud and whatever but on day cops nocked his door opened friendly even was jerk to wife but who cairs and cops dont cair also not but put him jail after closed door cells was informed biggest owner to be of some drug web dark he did not believe becus was inozent but many proofs cops had show him and then ac realize that got scammed would live rest of live in prison us but was not every all before can speak tu us court paradise hitman kill him with towel in his cell so he never can talk

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