Man attempts to sell oven door as 37" flat screen tv

[concept]

So Chris, how many of those "Flat Screens" did you get stuck with?

He figured it out after the fourth one...lol


His spin is now he's that much closer to the gourmet kitchen he always wanted...

It's nearly a certainty that Chris has at least ONE oven door mounted on a wall somewhere around her apartment... Of course the bad news is that the guy she hired to install it didn't tell her; so it fell to the cable guy to break the bad news.

That's ok. She has Dish Network and probably has the fridge mounted up on the roof.

Picks up NPR perfectly!!

 

[garyd]

No maggie it is worse than that. The seante is going to come up with it's own bill different than what the hosue passed then we get the conference committee which will be the longest of all. then it goes back to the house where it may be amended or not and by the time all is said and done we will get a bill that is labeled health care reform that will actually be health care deformed, and contain lines that will build hospitals where there are very few patients - certainly not enough to pay the upkeep on a hospital - little league diamonds in Poughkeepsie, a soccer field in Little Rock, a space Museum in Moosejaw, etc, etc, etc. In the end it likely won't do much to provide healthcare for anyone and will increse the health care cost of everyone.

 

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SAN LEANDRO — A brand-new 37-inch Sony flat screen television for $100? Great deal — until you take it out of the box and realize you just bought an oven door.

San Leandro police Lt. Pete Ballew called it a variation on the old "rocks in a box" scam, in which a box is presented as containing new, expensive electronics for sale but is actually full of rocks.

On Wednesday San Leandro police pulled over a man who had in his car a box containing what appeared to be an expensive 37-inch flat-screen television, but in actuality was a glass oven door cleverly disguised as a TV. The man is suspected of trying to sell the item for $100 in the parking lot of the San Lorenzo Wal-Mart, 15555 Hesperian Blvd.

"It was very ingenious," Ballew said. "If you were a bargain hunter, you might think, 'Wow, this is the deal of the day."

Police got an anonymous call Wednesday from someone who raised suspicions about a man who tried to sell him a television out of his beige 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass in the Wal-Mart parking lot. The witness said the seller told him he had bought the TV for $60 at a flea market.

Later, Sgt. Luis Torres stopped the Cutlass after spotting it driving through San Leandro. The driver, Anthony Myles, 52, of Richmond, was arrested for driving on a suspended license. No charges were filed against Myles' passenger, a 53-year-old man.

The television in question was in the back of the car wrapped in packaging material. It had installation instructions on the back, a Best Buy price sticker for $1,949 and accompanying electric cables. Police confiscated the item, but no charges were filed in relation to its attempted sale.

37-inch flat screen TV for $100 is really an oven door - Inside Bay Area

I'd call that "creative marketing"