Yes, other variant is pavement scams, fake construction crews having leftover blacktop from doing the road…
Online mattress sales have given rise to a new kind of con game - reselling filthy mattresses as new
Not much different from some “brick & mortar” stereo shops.
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This kind of intense advertising is a sign that whatever is being sold is hugely profitable. That’s why you see drug sellers, car dealers and insurance companies loading up the airwaves and interwebs.
In our town, there is a Goodwill (or Salvation Army) that takes old mattresses and box springs and takes them apart, recycling what they can (like metal springs or wood frames) and probably just dumping the rest. That’s better than just wholesale tossing it into the landfill.
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According to their website they recycle them.
Seems like a better scam would be to set up a fake recycling company and provide faux paperwork saying the mattress has been returned. Customer keeps the mattress, gets refund for purchase price, and kicks back some to the faux recycler. Would be a much more environmentally responsible crime. Just trying to help y’all stick it to the man.
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A common scam involves a man with a van – He was meant to be delivering mattresses to a hotel, he’ll say, but there was a problem with the order. There’s no space back at the warehouse. Would you like to purchase them cheaply?
But wait, there’s more! Along with your mattress purchase, he can provide a driveway repaving at a “Traveller” special price.
Maybe ask if they have a pair of speakers for a good price, too?
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There’s always a market for used mattresses. Like in The Godfather when Sonny goes to the mattresses and Clemenza and Pauley go shopping for them with a gun and a box of cannoli.
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